<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539049" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sorcerer: Act II</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">DRAMATIS PERSONAE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre, an Elderly Baronet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alexis, of the Grenadier Guards--His Son</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dr. Daly, Vicar of Ploverleigh</div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Wellington Wells, of J. W. Wells & Co., Family Sorcerers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lady Sangazure, a Lady of Ancient Lineage</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aline, Her Daughter--betrothed to Alexis</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mrs. Partlet, a Pew-Opener</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Constance, her Daughter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chorus of Villagers </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> (Twelve hours are supposed to elapse between Acts I and II)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ACT II-- Grounds of Sir Marmaduke's Mansion, Midnight</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Scene--Exterior of Sir Marmaduke's mansion by moonlight. All the<br> peasantry are discovered asleep on the ground, as at the end<br> of Act I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enter Mr. Wells, on tiptoe, followed by Alexis and Aline. Mr. Wells<br> carries a dark lantern.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> TRIO--ALEXIS, ALINE, and MR. WELLS</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 'Tis twelve, I think,<br> And at this mystic hour<br> The magic drink<br> Should manifest its power.<br> Oh, slumbering forms,<br> How little ye have guessed<br> That fire that warms<br> Each apathetic breast!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALEXIS. But stay, my father is not here!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALINE. And pray where is my mother dear?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MR. WELLS. I did not think it meet to see<br> A dame of lengthy pedigree,<br> A Baronet and K.C.B.<br> A Doctor of Divinity,<br> And that respectable Q.C.,<br> All fast asleep, al-fresco-ly,<br> And so I had them taken home<br> And put to bed respectably!<br> I trust my conduct meets your approbation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALEXIS. Sir, you have acted with discrimination,<br> And shown more delicate appreciation<br> Than we expect of persons of your station.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MR. WELLS. But stay--they waken one by one --<br> The spell has worked--the deed is done!<br> I would suggest that we retire<br> While Love, the Housemaid, lights her kitchen<br> fire!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Exeunt Mr. Wells, Alexis and Aline, on tiptoe, as the villagers<br> stretch their arms, yawn, rub their eyes, and sit up.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MEN. Why, where be oi, and what be oi a doin',<br> A sleepin' out, just when the dews du rise?<br>GIRLS. Why, that's the very way your health to ruin,<br> And don't seem quite respectable likewise!<br>MEN (staring at girls). Eh, that's you!<br> Only think o' that now!<br>GIRLS (coyly). What may you be at, now?<br> Tell me, du!<br>MEN (admiringly). Eh, what a nose,<br> And eh, what eyes, miss!<br> Lips like a rose,<br> And cheeks likewise, miss!<br>GIRLS (coyly). Oi tell you true,<br> Which I've never done, sir,<br> Oi loike you<br> As I never loiked none, sir!<br>ALL. Eh, but oi du loike you!<br>MEN. If you'll marry me, I'll dig for you and<br> rake for you!<br>GIRLS. If you'll marry be, I'll scrub for you<br> and bake for you!<br>MEN. If you'll marry me, all others I'll<br> forsake for you!<br>ALL. All this will I du, if you marry<br> me!<br>GIRLS. If you'll marry me, I'll cook for you<br> and brew for you!<br>MEN. If you'll marry me, I've guineas not a<br> few for you!<br>GIRLS. If you'll marry me, I'll take you in and<br> du for you!<br>ALL. All this will I du, if you'll marry me!<br> Eh, but I do loike you!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Country Dance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(At end of dance, enter Constance in tears, leading Notary, who<br> carries an ear-trumpet)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Aria--CONSTANCE</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Dear friends, take pity on my lot,<br> My cup is not of nectar!<br> I long have loved--as who would not?--<br> Our kind and reverend rector.<br> Long years ago my love began<br> So sweetly--yet so sadly--<br> But when I saw this plain old man,<br> Away my old affection ran--<br> I found I loved him madly.<br> Oh!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(To Notary) You very, very plain old man,<br> I love, I love you madly!<br>CHORUS. You very, very plain old man,<br> She loves, she loves you madly!<br>NOTARY. I am a very deaf old man,<br> And hear you very badly!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CONST. I know not why I love him so;<br> It is enchantment, surely!<br> He's dry and snuffy, deaf and slow<br> Ill-tempered, weak and poorly!<br> He's ugly, and absurdly dressed,<br> And sixty-seven nearly,<br> He's everything that I detest,<br> But if the truth must be confessed,<br> I love him very dearly!<br> Oh!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(To Notary) You're everything that I detest,<br> But still I love you dearly!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS. You've everything that girls detest,<br> But still she loves you dearly!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">NOTARY. I caught that line, but for the rest,<br> I did not hear it clearly!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(During this verse Aline and Alexis have entered at back<br> unobserved.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ALINE AND ALEXIS</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALEXIS. Oh joy! oh joy!<br> The charm works well,<br> And all are now united.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALINE. The blind young boy<br> Obeys the spell,<br> And troth they all have plighted!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ENSEMBLE</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Aline & Alexis Constance Notary</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh joy! oh joy! Oh, bitter joy! Oh joy! oh joy!<br> The charm works well, No words can tell No words can tell<br> And all are now united! How my poor heart My state of mind<br>The blind young boy is blighted! delighted.<br> Obeys the spell, They'll soon employ They'll soon employ<br> A marriage bell, A marriage bell,<br> Their troth they all To say that we're To say that we're<br> have plighted. united. united.<br>True happiness I do confess True happiness<br> Reigns everywhere, A sorrow rare Reigns everywhere<br> And dwells with both My humbled spirit And dwells with both<br> the sexes. vexes. the sexes,<br>And all will bless And none will bless And all will bless<br> The thoughtful care Example rare Example rare<br> Of their beloved Of their beloved Of their beloved<br> Alexis! Alexis! Alexis!<br> (All, except Alexis and Aline, exeunt lovingly.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ALINE. How joyful they all seem in their new-found<br>happiness! The whole village has paired off in the happiest<br>manner. And yet not a match has been made that the hollow world<br>would not consider ill-advised!<br> ALEXIS. But we are wiser--far wiser--than the world. <br>Observe the good that will become of these ill-assorted unions. <br>The miserly wife will check the reckless expenditure of her too<br>frivolous consort, the wealthy husband will shower innumerable<br>bonnets on his penniless bride, and the young and lively spouse<br>will cheer the declining days of her aged partner with comic<br>songs unceasing!<br> ALINE. What a delightful prospect for him!<br> ALEXIS. But one thing remains to be done, that my happiness<br>may be complete. We must drink the philtre ourselves, that I may<br>be assured of your love for ever and ever.<br> ALINE. Oh, Alexis, do you doubt me? Is it necessary that<br>such love as ours should be secured by artificial means? Oh, no,<br>no, no!<br> ALEXIS. My dear Aline, time works terrible changes, and I<br>want to place our love beyond the chance of change.<br> ALINE. Alexis, it is already far beyond that chance. Have <br>faith in me, for my love can never, never change!<br> ALEXIS. Then you absolutely refuse?<br> ALINE. I do. If you cannot trust me, you have no right to <br>love me--no right to be loved by me.<br> ALEXIS. Enough, Aline, I shall know how to interpret this <br>refusal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> BALLAD--ALEXIS</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thou hast the power thy vaunted love<br> To sanctify, all doubt above,<br> Despite the gathering shade:<br> To make that love of thine so sure<br> That, come what may, it must endure<br> Till time itself shall fade.<br> They love is but a flower<br> That fades within the hour!<br> If such thy love, oh, shame!<br> Call it by other name--<br> It is not love!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thine is the power and thine alone,<br> To place me on so proud a throne<br> That kings might envy me!<br> A priceless throne of love untold,<br> More rare than orient pearl and gold.<br> But no! Thou wouldst be free!<br> Such love is like the ray<br> That dies within the day:<br> If such thy love, oh, shame!<br> Call it by other name--<br> It is not love!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Enter Dr. Daly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> DR. D. (musing) It is singular--it is very singular. It<br>has overthrown all my calculations. It is distinctly opposed to<br>the doctrine of averages. I cannot understand it.<br> ALINE. Dear Dr. Daly, what has puzzled you?<br> DR. D. My dear, this village has not hitherto been addicted<br>to marrying and giving in marriage. Hitherto the youths of this<br>village have not been enterprising, and the maidens have been<br>distinctly coy. Judge then of my surprise when I tell you that<br>the whole village came to me in a body just now, and implored me<br>to join them in matrimony with as little delay as possible. Even<br>your excellent father has hinted to me that before very long it<br>is not unlikely that he may also change his condition.<br> ALINE. Oh, Alexis--do you hear that? Are you not<br>delighted?<br> ALEXIS. Yes, I confess that a union between your mother and<br>my father would be a happy circumstance indeed. (Crossing to Dr.<br>Daly) My dear sir--the news that you bring us is very<br>gratifying.<br> DR. D. Yes--still, in my eyes, it has its melancholy side. <br>This universal marrying recalls the happy days--now, alas, gone<br>forever--when I myself might have--but tush! I am puling. I am<br>too old to marry--and yet, within the last half-hour, I have<br>greatly yearned for companionship. I never remarked it before,<br>but the young maidens of this village are very comely. So <br>likewise are the middle-aged. Also the elderly. All are<br>comely--and (with a deep sigh) all are engaged!<br> ALINE. Here comes your father.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enter Sir Marmaduke with Mrs. Partlet, arm-in-arm</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ALINE and ALEXIS (aside). Mrs. Partlet!<br> SIR M. Dr. Daly, give me joy. Alexis, my dear boy, you<br>will, I am sure, be pleased to hear that my declining days are<br>not unlikely to be solaced by the companionship of this good,<br>virtuous, and amiable woman.<br> ALEXIS. (rather taken aback) My dear father, this is not <br>altogether what I expected. I am certainly taken somewhat by<br>surprise. Still it can hardly be necessary to assure you that<br>any wife of yours is a mother of mine. (Aside to Aline.) It is<br>not quite what I could have wished.<br> MRS. P. (crossing to Alexis) Oh, sir, I entreat your <br>forgiveness. I am aware that socially I am not everything that<br>could be desired, nor am I blessed with an abundance of worldly<br>goods, but I can at least confer on your estimable father the<br>great and priceless dowry of a true, tender, and lovin' 'art!<br> ALEXIS (coldly). I do not question it. After all, a<br>faithful love is the true source of every earthly joy.<br> SIR M. I knew that my boy would not blame his poor father<br>for acting on the impulse of a heart that has never yet misled<br>him. Zorah is not perhaps what the world calls beautiful--<br> DR. D. Still she is comely--distinctly comely. (Sighs)<br> ALINE. Zorah is very good, and very clean, and honest, and <br>quite, quite sober in her habits: and that is worth far more than<br>beauty, dear Sir Marmaduke.<br> DR. D. Yes; beauty will fade and perish, but personal <br>cleanliness is practically undying, for it can be renewed<br>whenever it discovers symptoms of decay. My dear Sir Marmaduke,<br>I heartily congratulate you. (Sighs)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> QUINTETTE</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ALEXIS, ALINE, SIR MARMADUKE, ZORAH, and DR. DALY</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALEXIS. I rejoice that it's decided,<br> Happy now will be his life,<br> For my father is provided<br> With a true and tender wife.<br> She will tend him, nurse him, mend him,<br> Air his linen, dry his tears;<br> Bless the thoughtful fate that send him<br> Such a wife to soothe his years!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALINE. No young giddy thoughtless maiden,<br> Full of graces, airs, and jeers--<br> But a sober widow, laden<br> With the weight of fifty years!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SIR M. No high-born exacting beauty<br> Blazing like a jewelled sun--<br> But a wife who'll do her duty,<br> As that duty should be done!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MRS. P. I'm no saucy minx and giddy--<br> Hussies such as them abound--<br> But a clean and tidy widdy<br> Well be-known for miles around!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">DR.D. All the village now have mated,<br> All are happy as can be--<br> I to live alone am fated:<br> No one's left to marry me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ENSEMBLE. She will tend him etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Exeunt Sir Marmaduke, Mrs. Partlet, and Aline, with Alexis. Dr. Daly<br> looks after them sentimentally, then exits with a sigh.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enter Mr. Wells</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> RECITATIVE--MR. WELLS</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells!<br> An ill I can't undo!<br> This is too bad of you, J. W. Wells--<br> What wrong have they done you?<br> And see--another love-lorn lady comes--<br> Alas, poor stricken dame!<br> A gentle pensiveness her life benumbs--<br> And mine, alone, the blame!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lady Sangazure enters. She is very melancholy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LADY S. Alas, ah me! and well-a-day!<br> I sigh for love, and well I may,<br> For I am very old and grey.<br> But stay!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> (Sees Mr. Wells, and becomes fascinated by him.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> RECITATIVE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LADY S. What is this fairy form I see before me?<br>WELLS. Oh horrible!--She's going to adore me!<br> This last catastrophe is overpowering!<br>LADY S. Why do you glare at one with visage lowering?<br> For pity's sake recoil not thus from me!<br>WELLS. My lady leave me--this may never be!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> DUET--LADY SANGAZURE and MR. WELLS</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WELLS. Hate me! I drop my H's--have through life!<br>LADY S. Love me! I'll drop them too!<br>WELLS. Hate me! I always eat peas with a knife!<br>LADY S. Love me! I'll eat like you!<br>WELLS. Hate me! I spend the day at Rosherville!<br>LADY S. Love me! that joy I'll share!<br>WELLS. Hate me! I often roll down One Tree Hill!<br>LADY S. Love me! I'll join you there!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LADY S. Love me! My prejudices I will drop!<br>WELLS. Hate me! that's not enough!<br>LADY S. Love me! I'll come and help you in the shop!<br>WELLS. Hate me! the life is rough!<br>LADY S. Love me! my grammar I will all forswear!<br>WELLS. Hate me! abjure my lot!<br>LADY S. Love me! I'll stick sunflowers in my hair!<br>WELLS. Hate me! they'll suit you not!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> RECITATIVE--MR. WELLS</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> At what I am going to say be not enraged--<br> I may not love you--for I am engaged!<br>LADY S. (horrified). Engaged!<br>WELLS. Engaged!<br> To a maiden fair,<br> With bright brown hair,<br> And a sweet and simple smile,<br> Who waits for me<br> By the sounding sea,<br> On a South Pacific isle.<br>WELLS (aside). A lie! No maiden waits me there!<br>LADY S. (mournfully). She has bright brown hair;<br>WELLS (aside). A lie! No maiden smiles on me!<br>LADY S. (mournfully). By the sounding sea!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ENSEMBLE</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> LADY SANGAZURE WELLS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh agony, rage, despair! Oh, agony, rage, despair!<br>The maiden has bright brown hair, Oh, where will this end--oh, where?<br> And mine is as white as snow! I should like very much to know!<br>False man, it will be your fault, It will certainly be my fault,<br>If I go to my family vault, If she goes to her family vault,<br> And bury my life-long woe! To bury her life-long woe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">BOTH. The family vault--the family vault.<br> It will certainly be (your/my) fault.<br> If (I go/she goes) to (my/her) family vault,<br> To bury (my/her) life-long woe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Exit Lady Sangazure, in great anguish, accompanied by Mr. Wells.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enter Aline, Recitative</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Alexis! Doubt me not, my loved one! See,<br> Thine uttered will is sovereign law to me!<br> All fear--all thought of ill I cast away!<br> It is my darling's will, and I obey!<br> (She drinks the philtre.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The fearful deed is done,<br> My love is near!<br> I go to meet my own<br> In trembling fear!<br> If o'er us aught of ill<br> Should cast a shade,<br> It was my darling's will,<br> And I obeyed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(As Aline is going off, she meets Dr. Daly, entering pensively. He<br> is playing on a flageolet. Under the influence of the spell<br> she at once becomes strangely fascinated by him, and<br> exhibits every symptom of being hopelessly in love with<br> him.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> SONG--DR. DALY</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Oh, my voice is sad and low<br> And with timid step I go--<br> For with load of love o'er laden<br> I enquire of every maiden,<br> &quot;Will you wed me, little lady?<br> Will you share my cottage shady?&quot;<br> Little lady answers &quot;No!<br> Thank you for your kindly proffer--<br> Good your heart, and full your coffer;<br> Yet I must decline your offer--<br> I'm engaged to So-and-so!&quot;<br> So-and-so!<br> So-and-so! (flageolet solo)<br> She's engaged to So-and-so!<br> What a rogue young hearts to pillage;<br> What a worker on Love's tillage!<br> Every maiden in the village<br> Is engaged to So-and-so!<br> So-and-so!<br> So-and-so! (flageolet solo)<br> All engaged to So-and-so!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(At the end of the song Dr. Daly sees Aline, and, under the<br> influence of the potion, falls in love with her.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ENSEMBLE--ALINE and DR. DALY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Oh, joyous boon! oh, mad delight;<br> Oh, sun and moon! oh, day and night!<br> Rejoice, rejoice with me!<br> Proclaim our joy, ye birds above--<br> Yet brooklets, murmur forth our love,<br> In choral ecstasy:<br>ALINE. Oh, joyous boon!<br>DR. D. Oh, mad delight!<br>ALINE. Oh, sun and moon!<br>DR. D. Oh, day and night!<br>BOTH. Ye birds, and brooks, and fruitful trees,<br> With choral joy, delight the breeze--<br> Rejoice, rejoice with me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enter Alexis</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ALEXIS (with rapture). Aline my only love, my happiness! <br>The philtre--you have tasted it?<br> ALINE (with confusion). Yes! Yes!<br> ALEXIS. Oh, joy, mine, mine for ever, and for aye!<br> (Embraces her.)<br> ALINE. Alexis, don't do that--you must not!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> (Dr. Daly interposes between them)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ALEXIS (amazed). Why?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> DUET--ALINE and DR. DALY</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALINE. Alas! that lovers thus should meet:<br> Oh, pity, pity me!<br> Oh, charge me not with cold deceit;<br> Oh, pity, pity me!<br> You bade me drink--with trembling awe<br> I drank, and, by the potion's law,<br> I loved the very first I saw!<br> Oh, pity, pity, me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">DR. D. My dear young friend, consoled be--<br> We pity, pity you.<br> In this I'm not an agent free--<br> We pity, pity you.<br> Some most extraordinary spell<br> O'er us has cast its magic fell--<br> The consequence I need not tell.<br> We pity, pity you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ENSEMBLE</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Some most extraordinary spell<br> O'er (us/them) has cast its magic fell--<br> The consequence (we/they) need not tell.<br> (We/They) pity, pity (thee!/me).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALEXIS (furiously). False one, begone--I spurn thee,<br> To thy new lover turn thee!<br> Thy perfidy all men shall know,<br>ALINE (wildly). I could not help it!<br>ALEXIS (calling off). Come one, come all!<br>DR. D. We could not help it!<br>ALEXIS (calling off). Obey my call!<br>ALINE (wildly). I could not help it!<br>ALEXIS (calling off). Come hither, run!<br>DR. D. We could not help it!<br>ALEXIS (calling off). Come, every one!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enter all the characters except Lady Sangazure and Mr. Wells</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> CHORUS</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Oh, what is the matter, and what is the clatter?<br> He's glowering at her, and threatens a blow!<br> Oh, why does he batter the girl he did flatter?<br> And why does the latter recoil from him so?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> RECITATIVE--ALEXIS</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Prepare for sad surprises--<br> My love Aline despises!<br> No thought of sorrow shames her--<br> Another lover claims her!<br> Be his, false girl, for better or for worse--<br> But, ere you leave me, may a lover's curse--</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> DR. D. (coming forward). Hold! Be just. This poor child <br>drank the philtre at your instance. She hurried off to meet<br>you--but, most unhappily, she met me instead. As you had<br>administered the potion to both of us, the result was inevitable. <br>But fear nothing from me--I will be no man's rival. I shall quit<br>the country at once--and bury my sorrow in the congenial gloom of<br>a Colonial Bishopric.<br> ALEXIS. My excellent old friend! (Taking his hand--then <br>turning to Mr. Wells, who has entered with Lady Sangazure.) Oh, Mr.<br>Wells, what, what is to be done?<br> WELLS. I do not know--and yet--there is one means by which <br>this spell may be removed.<br> ALEXIS. Name it--oh, name it!<br> WELLS. Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I <br>would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in<br>sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but we take stock next<br>week, and it would not be fair on the Co.<br> ALEXIS. True. Well, I am ready!<br> ALINE. No, no--Alexis--it must not be! Mr. Wells, if he<br>must die that all may be restored to their old loves, what is to<br>become of me? I should be left out in the cold, with no love to<br>be restored to!<br> WELLS. True--I did not think of that. (To the others) My <br>friends, I appeal to you, and I will leave the decision in your<br>hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> FINALE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WELLS. Or I or he<br> Must die!<br> Which shall it be?<br> Reply!<br>SIR M. Die thou!<br> Thou art the cause of all offending!<br>DR. D. Die thou!<br> Yield to this decree unbending!<br>ALL. Die thou!<br>WELLS. So be it! I submit! My fate is sealed.<br> To public execration thus I yield!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> (Falls on trap)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Be happy all--leave me to my despair--<br> I go--it matters not with whom--or where!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> (Gong)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(All quit their present partners, and rejoin their old lovers. <br> Sir Marmaduke leaves Mrs. Partlet, and goes to Lady Sangazure. <br> Aline leaves Dr. Daly, and goes to Alexis. Dr. Daly leaves<br> Aline, and goes to Constance. Notary leaves Constance, and goes<br> to Mrs. Partlet. All the Chorus makes a corresponding change.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ALL</div><div style="margin:10px 0">GENTLEMEN. Oh, my adored one!<br>LADIES. Unmingled joy!<br>GENTLEMEN. Ecstatic rapture!<br>LADIES. Beloved boy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> (They embrace)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SIR M. Come to my mansion, all of you! At least<br> We'll crown our rapture with another feast!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ENSEMBLE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SIR MARMADUKE, LADY SANGAZURE, ALEXIS, and ALINE</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Now to the banquet we press--<br> Now for the eggs and the ham--<br> Now for the mustard and cress--<br> Now for the strawberry jam!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS. Now to the banquet, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> DR. DALY, CONSTANCE, NOTARY, and MRS. PARTLET</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Now for the tea of our host--<br> Now for the rollicking bun--<br> Now for the muffin and toast--<br> Now for the gay Sally Lunn!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS. Now for the tea, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> (General Dance)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(During the symphony Mr. Wells sinks through the trap, amid red<br> fire.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> CURTAIN</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539049" data-title="The Sorcerer: Act II de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="DRAMATIS PERSONAE Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre, an Elderly Baronet Alexis, of the Grenadier Guards--His Son Dr. Daly, Vicar of Ploverleigh John Wellington Wells, of J. W. 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