Finale - Act 2.

Seq - Dr. J.Pitt-Payne. Kar - Bunty Pritchard Jones. June 2001.

[Chorus of Milliners] Ah hah, Monsieur Larose!
We honour and admire you,

but must suggest your taking a rest,
your noble work must tire you!

And though our window shows,
the very latest dresses,
we haven't got a suitable lot of runaway Princesses!

We'll get you some if you propose,
again to come, Monsieur Larose.

Ah, ha! Monsieur Larose!
We'll show her we know her,
Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, Monsieur Larose!

[Mathilde] Oh, there's Monsieur Larose,
the man that I detested!

He says I'm here, he knows,
and I must be arrested!

And if he catches me,
our marriage won't be lawful,

and never more can be,
the case is simply awful!

Oh, what are we to do,
if it's true, if it's true?

Our honeymoon is over soon,
and what are we to do?

[Charteris] Pardon, Monsieur Larose!
But did I hear it truly?

You venture to suppose,
we are not married duly?

Such insults I declare
unworthy of a man, sir!

And if you do not care,
your life will have to answer!

[Mathilde Prudence Charteris] Then what
are we to do,
if it's true, if it's true!

My own sweetheart and I must part,
and what are we to do?

[Prudence] Although Monsieur Larose
at present hasn't found you,

you have too many foes,
all on watch around you!

If we could only find
a way by which to save you,

not one of us would mind
if life and all we gave you!

[Mathilde Prudence Charteris] But what are we to do,
if it's true, if it's true?

It's all too late to conquer fate,
so what are we to do?

[Chorus] Adieu, Monsieur Larose!
You grieve us when you leave us!
Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, Monsieur Larose!

[Mathilde] It's the Prince, His Highness!
[Chorus] The Prince! The Prince! His Highness!

[Prince] Ah, Madame! Here I am
to invite La Quakeresse!

[Prince sings to Prudence] May I pray you will say
as your answer, only, "Yes!"

Will you not come to the ball,
listen and answer the call?

Beautiful girls will be there to dance,
all that is fairest and best in France!

If you will come to the ball,
you shall be Queen of them all;

No one so fair will be there,
at the ball, at the ball.

[Prudence] Really Your Highness,
though you are kind,
Quakerish shyness troubles my mind!

I am no dancer, I cannot go;
so I can answer, nothing but, "No!"

[Chorus] Her only answer is, "No!"
She will not come to the ball!
She will not answer the call!

[Prince] Aah! Aah!
She will not come to the ball,
Then I'll make love to them all,

Many as fair will be there,
at the ball, at the ball!

[Dialogue]

[Prince] Ah! you will come to the ball,
listen and answer the call!

I will be ever your faithful friend,
you are my Queen till the world shall end!

Now you will come to the ball,
you shall be Queen of them all!

[Dialogue]

[Prince] No one so fair will be there,
at the ball,
at the ball!

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Quaker17 Finale Act 2 1910 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 27 May 2001

Quaker17 Finale Act 2 1910 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 27 May 2001
Quaker17 Finale Act 2 1910
Music by Lionel Monckton
Lyrics by Adrian Ross
Copyright 1910 by Chappell and Co lTd.
sequenced by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 27 May 2001
in association with Doug Grierson
Karaoke by Bunty Pritchard Jones