ACT 1
No. 11: FINALE
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Re-enter DORCAS and CHORUS.
CHORUS. | ||
The bonny bridegroom cometh | ||
To meet the bonny bride, | ||
Let all the gates of Haddon | ||
Their portals open wide! |
RUPERT and the PURITANS re-appear on the terrace.
The bonny bridegroom cometh — | ||
Your breath together draw! | ||
Prepare to bid him welcome | ||
With a hip, hip, hip — oh law! |
All avert their faces at the sight of the Puritans.
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RUPERT. | ||
Once we close the portals, | ||
Once we shut the shop, | ||
We're like other mortals, | ||
Out upon the hop! | ||
PURITANS. | ||
Out upon the hop! | ||
CHORUS. | ||
Once they close the portals, | ||
Once they shut the shop, | ||
They're like other mortals, | ||
Out upon the hop! | ||
Once they close the portals, They're like other mortals, other mortals |
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Out upon the hop! | ||
RUPERT. | ||
I pray you, pretty ladies, | ||
Before this audience ends, | ||
To let me do the honours | ||
And introduce my friends. | ||
Sing-Song Simeon | ||
DORCAS. (shaking head, spoken) | ||
Not an Endymion! | ||
RUPERT. | ||
Nicodemus Knock-knee. | ||
NANCE. (spoken) | ||
Sanctimonious cockney! | ||
RUPERT. | ||
Barnabas Bellows-to-Mend. | ||
DORCAS. (spoken) | ||
All of them fellow to mend! | ||
RUPERT. | ||
Kill-Joy Candlemas. | ||
CHORUS. | ||
Enough! enough! we have suffered galore, We cannot suffer more! |
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Oh, let's see the back of you, Every man-jack of you, |
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All of you sillies and all of you sights! | ||
The sight of old fogies That blow up like bogies, |
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And keep one awake in the dead of the nights. Get away! get away! get away! get away! get away! |
They go up in a dudgeon.
RUPERT. (to Audience) | |||
Between ourselves, I candidly confess, That I expected neither more nor less. |
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(to PURITANS) | |||
My faithful friends, I do not mind confessing To all of you, whom I am now addressing, That, as a lot, you are not prepossessing. |
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It's no use blinking it! | |||
PURITANS. | |||
We were just thinking it! | |||
RUPERT. | |||
Ladies, pretty ladies,
second thoughts are best; Pregnant is the proverb, time's the only test. |
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Come, ladies fair beyond compare, | |||
And list to my confessions; | |||
Be warned by me, and never be | |||
Deceived by first impressions. | |||
CHORUS. | |||
Come/Go, ladies fair, beyond compare - | |||
And list to his confessions. |
RUPERT. | ||
When I was but a little lad, And cake and toffee made me glad, |
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And high the sun at noon! | ||
My mother came to me one day, When I was in the field at play, |
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With jam upon a spoon. | ||
It looked so nice, I thought not twice, The jam had vanished in a trice — |
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Quite frank are these confessions! | ||
Alas, the jam concealed a pill Which made me very, very ill — |
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Deceived by first impressions! | ||
CHORUS. | ||
Oh, joy! the jam concealed a pill Which made him very, very ill — |
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Deceived by first impressions! | ||
RUPERT. | ||
Quoth Dr. Syntax, one fine day, "Rupert, I have a word to say." |
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(I had just told a cram.) | ||
So tenderly he took my hand, His tone was so polite and bland, |
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I followed like a lamb. | ||
But once upstairs his manner freezed, And all at once he seemed displeased, |
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As with Aeneas, Dido! | ||
Then, quick as thought he seized a birch And fairly knocked me off my perch — |
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Whack, whack, whack-fol-de-riddle-i-do! |
ENSEMBLE.
RUPERT. | WOMEN. | MEN. | ||||||
Now, ladies fair, |
Whack-fol-de-riddle-i-do! | |||||||
Beyond compare | Whack-fol-de-riddle-i-do! | |||||||
Be warned by my confessions; |
Whack-fol-de-riddle-i-do! Whack-fol-de-riddle-i-do! |
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You surely see | You surely see | Whack-fol-de-riddle-i-do! | ||||||
The vanity — | The vanity — | Whack-fol-de-riddle-i-do! | ||||||
Of trusting first impressions. | Of trusting first impressions. | Whack-fol-de-riddle-i-do! Whack-fol-de-riddle-i-do! |
RUPERT & CHORUS. | |
Whack, whack, whack-fol-de-riddle-I-do! |
Re-enter SIR GEORGE, LADY VERNON, and DOROTHY.
SIR GEORGE. | ||
Hail, Cousin Rupert, welcome to our heart! | ||
Though scarce we know thee in this habit homely. | ||
RUPERT. | ||
It doth not suit me, but before we part | ||
I hope to change it for a grab more comely. | ||
LADY VERNON. | ||
A bridegroom's? | ||
RUPERT. | ||
Aye, if this sweet maiden wills. | ||
SIR GEORGE. | ||
This maiden, aye, her father's wish fulfils. | ||
RUPERT. | ||
Cousin fair, to thee I offer | ||
Soul and body, heart and hand. | ||
SIR GEORGE. | ||
In exchange to thee we proffer | ||
Beauty, duty, house, and land. | ||
LADY VERNON. | ||
Husband, hear me! husband, listen! | ||
Let our daughter's heart reply. | ||
In her eyes the teardrops glisten. | ||
If she wed him, she will die! | ||
DOROTHY. | ||
Father, hear me; father, listen! | ||
If I wed him, I shall die! |
ENSEMBLE.
DOROTHY. | DORCAS. | LADY VERNON. | RUPERT. | SIR GEORGE. | CHORUS. |
Father, | Only | Husband, | Cousin | If she | |
hear me; | hear her, only | hear her, husband, | fair to thee I | wed him | |
hear | listen | hear her | offer Soul and | she will | |
me; If I wed | If she wed him | If she | body, heart and | die! will | |
him, I shall | she will | wed him, she will | hand, heart and | die! If she | |
die! Father, hear me, | die! Only hear her, | die! Only hear her, | hand, heart and soul and | wed, if she wed him, | If she |
father, hear me; | only hear her; | husband, hear her; | hand, heart and soul and | if she wed him, | wed him |
For if I | For if she | For if she | hand, soul and | If she | If she |
wed him, | wed him | wed him | body | wed him | wed him |
I shall die! | she will die! | she will die! | heart and soul! | she will die! | she will die! |
DOROTHY. | ||
When, yestereve, I knelt to pray, | ||
As thou hast taught me to, | ||
I seemed to hear the angels say, | ||
"To thine own heart be true." | ||
Heaven breathed a message through the sphere! | ||
Heaven breathes it every day, | ||
To all who have the ears to hear, | ||
The wisdom to obey. | ||
By golden day and silver night | ||
It rings all nature through; | ||
For ever, in the angels' sight, | ||
To thine own heart be true. | ||
Though storms uprise And cloud the skies, |
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And thorns where roses grew; | ||
Come sun or snow, Come weal or woe. |
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To thine own heart be true. | ||
CHORUS. | ||
Though storms uprise And cloud the skies, |
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And thorns where roses grew; | ||
Come sun or snow, Come weal or woe. |
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DOROTHY, DORCAS, LADY VERNON & CHORUS. | ||
To thine own heart, To thine own heart be true! |
DOROTHY. (kneels). | |||
Father, forgive! | |||
SIR GEORGE. | |||
Rise! to thy chamber,
thou rebellious maid! My will is law, and law must be obeyed. |
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DOROTHY. | |||
Father, forgive! | |||
SIR GEORGE. | |||
I ask not words of duty, I ask for deeds. Away, away! |
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LADY VERNON. | |||
She doth but stay Farewell to say! |
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DOROTHY. | DORCAS. | ||
Father, forgive! | Sweet mistress, all my heart is thine! | ||
SIR GEORGE. | |||
No longer art thou daughter mine! | |||
RUPERT. | |||
We are refused! | |||
PURITANS. | |||
We are! we are! | |||
CHORUS. | |||
Hurray, hurray, Oh, blessed day! |
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RUPERT & PURITANS. | |||
A plague upon our natal star We are refused! We are, we are, we, |
ENSEMBLE.
DOROTHY. | DORCAS & LADY VERNON. |
RUPERT. | SIR GEORGE. | CHORUS. | PURITANS. |
we are, | we are, | ||||
Sir, I o- | we are re- | Away! away! | Away! away! | ||
-bey! | Oh, fateful | -fused! | My word obey! | His word obey! | we are, we |
Sir, I o- | day! Oh, fateful | Dismay! dismay! Oh, fateful | Away! away! my word | Away! away his word | are! Oh, fateful |
-bey! My | day! Thy | day! Thy | obey! Thy | obey! Thy | day! Thy |
duty, with | duty, with | duty, with | duty, with | duty, with | duty, with |
unerring hand |
unerring hand |
unerring hand | unerring hand |
unerring hand |
unerring hand |
Dictates the | Dictates the | Dictates the | Dictates the | Dictates the | Dictates the |
rightful way! | rightful way! | rightful way! | rightful way! | rightful way! | rightful way! |
I dare not | It is for | It is for | It is for | It is for | It is for |
disobey! | concience to command! |
concience to command! |
concience to command! |
concience to command! |
concience to command! |
I dare not, | Dare | Dare | Dare | Dare | Dare |
dare not |
not to disobey! |
not to disobey! |
not to disobey! |
not to disobey! |
not to disobey! |
It is for | It is for | It is a | Thy | Thy | |
I dare | conscience to | conscience to | father's to | duty | duty |
not, | command! | command! | command! | with | with |
Thy duty with | Thy duty with | Thy duty with | unerring | unerring | |
I dare | unerring | unerring | unerring | ||
not | hand, Dictates |
hand, Dictates |
hand, Dictates |
hand, Dictates |
hand, Dictates |
I dare, | the rightful | the rightful | the rightful | the | the |
dare not, | way, the | way, the | way, the | rightful | rightful |
disobey! | rightful way! | rightful way! | rightful way! | way! | way! |
END OF ACT I.
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