(Music to be used with the following dialogue.)
Cymon (about to play). | |||||
Lay hold of my coat. (JANETTA does so.) Now, with the first note< Although dance music I never wrote, Yet now you will see< While they listen to me, That all will dance to my fiddle de dee. |
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(Different movements. All gradually dance faster and faster.) | |||||
All except Janetta & Cymon.) | |||||
Ho! Hi! Stop! Ho! Don't! Do! Stop your bow! It's magic! It's awful! It isn't a dream! It's a fast train! — express! Hi! we're going by steam! |
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Cymon. | Stir your pegs. | ||||
All. | See their/ Oh! my legs. |
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They are/ We are bewitched, sure as eggs is eggs. | |||||
Cymon (to MARQUIS). | |||||
Give up Janetta! | |||||
Marquis. | . | Yes I do | |||
Cymon. | Say I'm not guilty. | ||||
Marquis. | And that too. | ||||
Cymon. | The money you gave me is mine for life. | ||||
Gryndon. | It is, it is. | ||||
Janetta. | And I'm his wife? | ||||
Gryndon & Marquis. | |||||
You are, you are! Oh stop, do stop. Or down in a fit we'll both of us drop. |
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(CYMON makes a very rapid and fast finish. They all drop exhausted.) |
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