Doctor Bolus: a serio-comic-bombastic-operatic interlude: in one act .. To which is added a prologue / By George Daniel.

  • George Daniel
Date:
1826
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Credit: Doctor Bolus: a serio-comic-bombastic-operatic interlude: in one act .. To which is added a prologue / By George Daniel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Scaramoucho comes forward. Scara. I’ll turn a rebel ere to-niorrow’s sun ; The odds are in my favour, ten to one! I will dethrone this Monarch, trounce the jade. False Poggylina—damme, who’s afraid ? AIR.—Scaramoucho. ' (Tune.—“ The Dandy, O /”) I’m a soldier ready made, and fighting is my trade, • At rank and file, retreat and charge, quite handy, O ; To Mars I am bound ’prentice, I kill my foes by twenties, And live on smoke, fire, gunpowder, and brandy, O ! When standing with my hat off, I look like Hetman Platoff,, Or some fierce, powder’d , whisker’d,German grandee, O Geramb or Schefienhausen, or wonderful Munchausen, Or Blucher, that old redoubtable dandy, O. Then, King, ’twixt you and I, I’d have you mind your eye,, For, ’pon my word, I do not understand ye, O ! And, Poggylina, you your coquetry shall rue, When I mill that royal lad o’ wax, your dandy, O. [Eo'it, R., SCENE III.—^ Chamber.- Queen Katalinda discovered sitting in a pensive manner with her Maids of Honour—Two Fiddlers attending. Queen. If music be the food of love, I crave. Good Gentlemen, the favour of a stave ! \^Theyplay, “ Drops of BrandyF That melancholy strain to heav’n might carry me : Plav something soothing—“ Nobody coming to ^MariNi J\Ie.” ■ \They play Nobody coming to ISIurry 7)/e.’' Enter King, l. King. Zounds ! here’s a pretty dust! a ])recious frolic 1 Madam, is this the way you cure the cholic } Queen. That air, methinks,it had a dying fall ! King. Base Catgut Scrapers! Devil take you all ! ■ [A'lcA'j them out\
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