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No. 4: Recitative & Minuet
"Sir Marmaduke – my dear young friend, Alexis"
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Enter Sir Marmaduke and Alexis.
| Dr. Daly |
| Sir Marmaduke – my dear young friend, Alexis – On this most happy, most auspicious plighting – Permit me, as a true old friend, to tender My best, my very best congratulations! |
| Sir Marmaduke. |
| Sir, you are most obleeging! |
| Alexis. |
| Dr. Daly, My dear old tutor, and my valued pastor, I thank you from the bottom of my heart! |
(Spoken through music.)
| Dr. Daly. | May fortune bless you! may the middle distance Of your young life be pleasant as the foreground – The joyous foreground! and, when you have reached it, May that which now is the far-off horizon (But which will then become the middle distance), In fruitful promise be exceeded only By that which will have opened, in the meantime, Into a new and glorious horizon! |
| Sir. Marmaduke. | Dear Sir, that is an excellent example Of an old school of stately compliment To which I have, through life, been much addicted. Will you obleege me with a copy of it, In clerkly manuscript, that I myself May use it on appropriate occasions? |
| Dr. Daly. | Sir, you shall have a fairly-written copy Ere Sol has sunk into his western slumbers! |
(Exit Dr. Daly. )
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