JULIA: How would I play this part-- The Grand Duke's Bride? All rancour in my heart I'd duly hide-- I'd drive it from my recollection And 'whelm you with a mock...

The good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig, Though, in his own opinion, very very big, In point of fact he's nothing but a miserable prig Is the good Grand Duke...

CHORUS: As before you we defile, Eloia! Eloia! Pray you, gentles, do not smile If we shout, in classic style, Eloia! Ludwig and his Julia true Wedded are each ...

BAR: As o'er our penny roll we sing, It is not reprehensive To think what joys our wealth would bring Were we disposed to do the thing Upon a scale extensive Th...

ERN: If the light of love's lingering ember Has faded in gloom, You cannot neglect, O remember, A voice from the tomb! That stern supernatural diction Should ac...

LISA: Oh, listen to me, dear-- I love him only, darling! Remember, oh, my pet, On him my heart is set This kindness do me, dear- Nor leave me lonely, darling! B...

LUD: Now Julia, come, Consider it from This dainty point of view-- A timid tender Feminine gender, Prompt to coyly coo-- Yet silence seeking, Seldom speaking Ti...

LUD: Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty, Tell me now, and tell me truly, Haven't you been rather hasty? Haven't you been rash unduly? Am I quite the dashing sposo That...

PRINCE We're rigged out in magnificent array (Our own clothes are much gloomier) In costumes which we've hired by the day From a very well-known costumier COST...

RUD (furiously): Big bombs, small bombs, great guns and little ones! Put him in a pillory! Rack him with artillery! LUD (furiously): Long swords, short swords...

RUD: Come hither, all you people-- When you hear the fearful news, All the pretty women weep'll, Men will shiver in their shoes LUD: And they'll all cry "Lord,...

CHORUS: Won't it be a pretty wedding? Will not Lisa look delightful? Smiles and tears in plenty shedding-- Which in brides of course is rightful One could say, ...

GENERAL: I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights hi...

Now away to the wedding we go, So summon the charioteers-- No kind of reluctance they show To embark on their married careers Though Julia's emotion may flow Fo...

I once gave an evening party (A sandwich and cut-orange ball), But my guests had such appetites hearty That I couldn't enjoy it, enjoy it at all I made a heroic...

EXCITED CHORUS: My goodness me! What shall we do ? Why, what a dreadful situation! (To LUD) It's all your fault, you booby you--you lump of indiscrimination! I...

ERNEST: Were I a king in very truth, And had a son--a guileless youth-- In probable succession; To teach him patience, teach him tact, How promptly in a fix to ...

JULIA (with Lisa clinging to her): Ah, pity me, my comrades true, Who love, as well I know you do, This gentle child, To me so fondly dear! ALL: Why, what's th...

The die is cast, My hope has perished! Farewell, O Past, Too bright to last, Yet fondly cherished! My light has fled, My hope is dead, Its doom is spoken-- My d...

LUD: By the mystic regulation Of our dark Association, Ere you open conversation With another kindred soul, You must eat a sausage-roll! (Producing one) ALL: Y...

About a century since, The code of the duello To sudden death For want of breath Sent many a strapping fellow The then presiding Prince (Who useless bloodshed h...

A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy, I don't indulge in levity or compromising bonhomie, But dignified formality, consistent with economy, Above all...