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SONG (Counsel) with SOLI (Plaintiff & Usher) and CHORUS
"May it Please You, My Lud"
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Counsel. |
May it please you, my lud! Gentlemen of the Jury! With a sense of deep emotion, I approach this painful case; For I never had a notion That a man could be so base, Or deceive a girl confiding, Vows etcetera, deriding |
Plaintiff falls sobbing on Counsel's breast and remains there. |
Chorus. |
He deceived a girl confiding, Vows, etcetera, deriding. |
Counsel. |
See my interesting client, Victim of a heartless wile! See the traitor, all defiant, Wear a supercilious smile! Sweetly smiled my client on him, Coyly woo'd and gently won him. |
Chorus. |
Sweetly smiled his client on him, |
Counsel. (with increased energy) | ||
Swiftly fled each honeyed hour Spent with this unmanly male Camberwell became a bow'r, Peckham, an Arcadian vale, Breathing concentrated otto! An existence á la Watteau. |
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Chorus. | ||
Bless us, concentrated otto! An existence á la Watteau. |
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Counsel. | ||
Picture, then, my client naming, And insisting on the day: Picture him excuses framing - Going from her far away; Doubly criminal to do so, For the maid had bought her trousseau! |
Chorus. |
Doubly criminal to do so, For the maid had bought her trousseau! |
Plaintiff. | Counsel. | Usher. | Jury. |
(to Plaintiff, who weeps) |
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Cheer up, cheer up, We love you! |
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Ah me! | Cheer up, my pretty - | Cheer up, | |
Ah me! | Oh, cheer up! | Cheer up, cheer up. | |
Cheer up, cheer up, We love you! |
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Ah me! | Cheer up! | Cheer up! | Cheer up, cheer up, We love you! |
Ah me! | Cheer up! | Cheer up! | Cheer up! |
Counsel leads Plaintiff fondly into Witness-box, he takes a tender leave of her, and resumes his place in Court.
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