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No. 17: QUARTET (Kate, Dame Carruthers, Fairfax & Meryll)
"Strange adventure"
| Kate, Dame Carruthers, Fairfax & Meryll |
Strange adventure! Maiden wedded
To a groom she's never seen — |
| Dame Carruthers and Fairfax. |
| Never, never, never seen! |
| All. |
Groom about to be beheaded,
In an hour on Tower Green! |
| Dame Carruthers and Fairfax. |
| Tower, Tower, Tower Green! |
| All. |
Groom in dreary dungeon lying,
Groom as good as dead, or dying,
For a pretty maiden sighing —
Pretty maid of seventeen!
Seven — seven — seventeen! |
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Illustration from Picture Book
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| All. |
Strange adventure that we're trolling:
Modest maid and gallant groom — |
| Dame Carruthers and Fairfax. |
| Gallant, gallant, gallant groom! — |
| All. |
While the funeral bell is tolling,
Tolling, tolling, Bim-a-boom! |
| Dame Carruthers and Fairfax. |
| Bim-a, Bim-a, Bim-a-boom! |
| All. |
Modest maiden will not tarry;
Though but sixteen year she carry,
She must marry, she must marry,
Though the altar be a tomb —
Tower — Tower — Tower tomb!
Tower tomb! Tower tomb!
Though the altar be a tomb!
Tower, Tower, Tower tomb! |
Exeunt Dame Carruthers, Meryll, and Kate.
     
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18 January, 2006
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