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Scene Fifth.
—A Forest—Graciosa is dragged in by the Guards, who bind her to a tree.Gra.
Monster in human shape! I wouldn't gall you,
But really I don't know what else to call you,
Your conduct to me is so very bad.
You have no children, butchers! if you had
The thoughts of them would make you kindly slaughter,
And not put out to mangle your King's daughter.
Fancy me torn by savage beasts of prey;
Lions, not dandy lions of the day;
Tigers, not little tigers in top boots;
Bears, not stock-brokering Change-alley brutes;
And boars society can't match, because
Nothing on earth can make them hold their jaws.
Oh, take the rope from off my wrists, and tie it
About my neck, that I may dangle by it!
1st Guard.
We'll see you hanged first.
(Exeunt Guards)
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Without affection,
I should consider it an obligation!
They're gone, and I am left to linger long;
Oh, what a situation—for a song.
I should consider it an obligation!
They're gone, and I am left to linger long;
Oh, what a situation—for a song.
Air—“True love can ne'er forget.”
Gra.
True love can ne'er forget;
Long here I should not fret
Were I still, Percinet,
Your darling one;
This very day you said,
When first your bow you made,
If I required your aid,
You'd to me run.
But “out of mind when out of sight,”
I'm afraid the proverb's right;
Of your promise you'll think light,
And brown I shall be done.
True love can ne'er forget;
Long here I should not fret
Were I still, Percinet,
Thy darling one!
At the end of song the Forest becomes illuminated, groups of Fairies, dressed as Shepherds and Shepherdesses, are seen in picturesque attitudes—Percinet, with the Fairy Chrystallina (his mother) and her two Daughters—The Crystal Palace of Percinet is seen in the distance.
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