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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    Bolus. Julap, cathartic, elixir, Snug in her liquor I'll drop ; If 'tis your pleasure, I’ll mix her All the contents of ray shop. Both, 'nien hey for tiu' pestle and mortar ! And hey for th’ infallible pills ! No plan on earth can he shorter To cure our good Queen of her ills. \Exeunt^ r. SCENE \W.-~A Tent. ScARAMOucHO discovefcd asleep—A Ghost rises up, and sings. Hey Scaramoucho ! ho Scaramoucho ! An’t you asham’d to be snoring and dozing ? Quick ! dispatch ! and come up to the scratch, The enemy’s nigh, and will soon pop his nose in! Hey Scaramoucho ! ho Scaramoucho ! The trum])ets they sound and the cannons they rattle; With a hey-day-diddle, the drum and the fiddle. The King and his Courtiers are coming to battle. [Ghost sinks. Scara. [In his sleep.'I Charge, ev’ry mother’s son ! Con¬ found the luggers ! Bring me another horse ! mine’s got the staggers I There scampers off the King !—ray bow and arrow; I’ve wing’d him—down he tumbles like a sparrow ! Enter Djllydundos, r. Dilly. There lies our Gen’ral sleeping—devil take him ! I just will take the liberty to wake him. [Tweaks his nose. Scara. I’m wounded ! mercy, ye inhuman crew ! [Starting. Ha, little Dillydundos ! is it you ? Dilly. Gen’ral, our forces have been waiting long. We’ve muster’d more than five-and-tw%nty strong; They’re all prepar’d for battle, arm’d in mail. Scara. Ere they begin, let half %pint of ale To each be given, with a mess of porridge. To wqrm their honest hearts and stir their courage. Now to your post—my soul their zeal partakes. And I’ll be with you in a brace of shakes. [E.vit Dillydundos.
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