No. 6
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| No. 6 — QUINTET (WINIFRED, LADY BUSHEY, HORACE, JERICHO and MICHAEL) |
| Winifred | Lady Bushey | Horace | Jericho and Michael | |||
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| Who, alas!, would be a peer | Who, alas!, would be a peer | Who, alas!, would be a peer | Who, alas!, would be a peer | |||
| When | ||||||
| When the daily | When the daily | When the daily | the daily | |||
| papers jeer, | pa- | papers jeer, | papers jeer, | |||
| pers jeer, | ||||||
| In a way to be regretted | In a way to be regretted | In a way to be regretted | In a way to be regretted | |||
| At the brainless coronetted? | At the brainless coronetted? | At the brainless coronetted? | At the brainless coronetted? | |||
| Let us heave a tender sigh | Let us heave a tender sigh | Let us heave | Let us heave a tender sigh | |||
| a ten- | ||||||
| For the man whose rank is high | For the man whose rank is high | der sigh, For the man whose rank | For the man whose rank is high | |||
| is high, | ||||||
| Nor with democrat's audacity | Nor with democrat's audacity |
Nor with democrat's audacity | Nor with democrat's audacity | |||
| Laugh at | ||||||
| Laugh at titled incapacity. | Laugh at titled incapacity. | Laugh at titled incapacity. | titled incapacity | |||
| Rouse ye then, O House of Lords! | Rouse ye then, O House of Lords! | Rouse ye then, O House of Lords! | Rouse ye then, O House of Lords! | |||
| Sleep no more | Sleep no more | Sleep no more | Sleep no more | |||
| on downy | on | on | on | |||
| pillows, | downy pillows, | downy pillows, | downy pillows, | |||
| But with big ancestral swords | But with big ancestral swords | But with big ancestral swords | But with big ancestral swords | |||
| O defend, | O defend, | O defend, | O defend, | |||
| O defend your peccadilloes. | O defend your peccadilloes. | O defend your peccadilloes. | O defend your peccadilloes. | |||
| Strips | ||||||
| Strips the bald and bankrupt peer, | Strips the bald and bank- | Strips the bald and bankrupt peer, | the bald and bankrupt peer, | |||
| rupt peer, | ||||||
| Bringing creditors' irateness | Bringing creditors' irateness | Bringing creditors' irateness | Bringing creditors' irateness | |||
| On hereditary greatness, | On hereditary greatness, | On hereditary greatness, | On hereditary greatness, | |||
| When the ruthless Bill of Sale, | When the ruthless Bill of Sale, | When the ruth- | When the ruthless Bill of Sale, | |||
| less Bill | ||||||
| Drives him forth o'er hill and dale, | Drives him forth o'er hill and dale, | of Sale, Drives him forth o'er hill | Drives him forth o'er hill and dale, | |||
| and dale, | ||||||
| Let us weep in all humility | Let us weep in all humility | Let us weep in all humility | Let us weep in all humility | |||
| For a | ||||||
| For a broken down Nobility. | For a broken down Nobility. | For a broken down Nobility. | broken down Nobility. | |||
| Rouse ye then, O House of Lords! | Rouse ye then, O House of Lords! | Rouse ye then, O House of Lords! | Rouse ye then, O House of Lords! | |||
| Sleep no more on dow- | Sleep no more on | Sleep no more on | Sleep no more on | |||
| ny pillows, | downy pillows, | downy pillows, | downy pillows, |
| All. | ||
| But with big ancestral swords | ||
| O defend, O defend your pecadilloes. | ||
| Rouse ye, then O House of Lords. | ||
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