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No. 22: QUINTET
"Here is a case unprecedented"
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| Casilda, Gianetta, Tessa, Marco & Giuseppe. |
| Here is a case unprecedented! Here are a King and Queen ill-starred! Ever since marriage was first invented Never was known a case so hard! |
| Marco & Giuseppe. |
| I may be said to have been bisected, By a profound catastrophe! |
| Casilda, Gianetta &Tessa. |
| Through a calamity unexpected I am divisible into three! |
| Marco & Giuseppe. |
| I may be said to have been bisected, |
| Casilda, Gianetta &Tessa. |
| I am divisible into three! Thro' a calamity I am divisible into three! |
| Casilda, Gianetta, Tessa, Marco & Giuseppe. |
| O moralists all, How can you call Marriage a state of unitee, When excellent husbands are bisected, Wives divisible into three? O moralists all, How can you call Marriage a state of unitee, Ah! of unitee! Moralists all, How can you call Marriage a state of unitee! Moralists all, How can you call Marriage a state of unitee! |
| Casilda, Gianetta & Tessa. | Marco & Giuseppe. |
| Call marriage a state of union true, One-third of myself is married to half of ye or you! |
Call marriage a state of union true, When half of myself has married two-thirds of ye or you! |
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