The farmer's wife: a comic opera, in three acts / Written by C. Dibdin, Jun. and performed, for the first time, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on Tuesday, February 1, 1814.
- Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin
- Date:
- 1814
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The farmer's wife: a comic opera, in three acts / Written by C. Dibdin, Jun. and performed, for the first time, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on Tuesday, February 1, 1814. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SCENE IV. Opens^ and Coenflower’s Barn, fitted up for-the Fete in a Style of elegant Smplicity '—Rural Emblems, decorated with coloured Lamps, IVreaths of Floxvers, 8^c.—Tables, with . Refreshments—Seats—A Band in an Orchestra, 4'c.—Company assembled—Mrs. Corn¬ flower, Sir Charles, and Mr. Williams, enter—also Cornflower, with a Hazel fVand • in his Hand, decorated with Oak-leaves and Roses. Com. Come neighbours, let us begin our mer¬ riment : a sprightly dance, by making good humour and exercise go hand in hand, will add both to our health and happiness. We cannot vie with London routs for elegani:e or splendour; but what we want in magnificence shall be made up by mirth ; and our deficiencies in taste shall be supplied by friendship. Ill be master of the ceremonies ; and by virtue of this hazel wand, decorated with em- bleipris of rustic health and rural simplicity, invite you to pleasures that, I trust, will not fail to please on reflection. Sir Charles. And IMrs. Cornflower will, I hope, do me the honour to open the ball with me. CHORUS. (Bishop.) Welcome are all to this scene of delight, Where frolic and temperance hand-in-hand go ; The rejoicing of gratitude still must excite Emotions the children of pleasure ne’er know. A FJance by theCharacters,\theMusic 5^/ Bishop.] END OF ACT II.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30374790_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
