Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
A Sensation Novel
by William S. Gilbert
music by Thomas German Reed

With Rage Infuriate I Burn!

No. 12a, Sung by Alice and Rockalda


MIDI Icon MIDI File 3 min. 56 seconds, sequenced by Mike Nash. Noteworthy Version NoteWorthy File

ALICE:

With rage infuriate I burn!
With rage infuriate I burn!
ROCKALDA:
My wishes on the point you spurn.
My wishes on the point you spurn.
ALICE:
Come, hand the jewels over please!
ROCKALDA:
What! these?
ALICE:
Come, hand the jewels over please!
ROCKALDA:
What! these?
ALICE: ROCKALDA:
Come, come,
and these,
come, come,
and these,
come, come
and these,
hand o-
What, these?
ver, yes, all.
My wishes you
That
brooch, spurn.
those earrings fair,
That tiara, that tiara
that docks your hair!

ROCKALDA:

If I refuse? if I refuse?
ALICE:
This dagger's blade,
I straightway summon to my aid.
(LADY ROCKALDA gives jewels to ALICE - she puts them on.)
In rarest jewels brightly shining,
In rarest jewels brightly shining,
In rarest jewels brightly shining,
With diamonds upon my brow,
In humble garb no longer pining,
No longer pining, no longer pining,
In humble garb no longer pining,
I take my true position now.

Ah! in rarest jewels brightly shining,
In rarest jewels brightly shining,
In rarest jewels brightly shining,
With diamonds, with diamonds upon my brow,
ROCKALDA:
Those jewels ill befit your tatters -
Oh! dread, oh! dread the Author's rage!
Those jewels ill befit your tatters -
Oh! dread, oh! dread the Author's rage!
For you're anticipating matters
By many, many a stirring, stirring page.
For you're anticipating matters
By many, by many a stirring page.
ALICE: ROCKALDA:
Though jewels ill befit my tatters, Those jewels ill befit your tatters -
I do not, do not dread the Author's rage; Oh! dread, oh! dread the Author's rage!
I like anticipating matters For you're anticipating matters
By many and many a stirring page. By many and many a stirring page.

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