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Scene 2.

—Another Street in Presburg. Daylight.
Enter Arline, in a fanciful dress, followed by a troop of Gipsies, she has a tambourine in her hand.
CHORUS.
In the gipsies' life you may read
The life that all would like to lead.

SONG.—Arline.
Come with the gipsy bride!
And repair
To the fair,
Where the mazy dance
Will the hours entrance,
Where souls as light preside!
Life can give nothing beyond
One heart you know to be fond;
Wealth with its hoards cannot buy
The peace content can supply.
Rank in its halls may not find
The calm of a happy mind;
So repair
To the fair,
And they all may be met with there.
Love is the first thing to clasp,
But if he escape your grasp,
Friendship will then be at hand,
In the young rogue's place to stand;
Hope, too, will be nothing loth
To point out the way to both.
So repair
To the fair,
And they all may be met with there.

CHORUS.
In the gipsies' life you may read
The life that all would like to lead.

[Exit Arline, followed by the tribe of Gipsies.