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No. 21: GAVOTTE (Duke, Duchess, Casilda, Marco & Giuseppe)
"I am a courtier grave and serious"
Henry Lytton as the Duke of Plaza Toro
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| Duke. |
I am a courtier grave and serious
Who is about to kiss your hand:
Try to combine a pose imperious
With a demeanour nobly bland. |
| Marco & Giuseppe. |
Let us combine a pose imperious
With a demeanour nobly bland.
Marco and Giuseppe endeavour to carry out his instructions. |
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| Duke. |
That's, if anything, too unbending —
Too aggressively stiff and grand;
They suddenly modify their attitudes.
Now to the other extreme you're tending —
Don't be so deucedly condescending! |
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| Casilda & Duchess. |
Now to the other extreme you're tending —
Don't be so dreadfully condescending! |
| Marco & Giuseppe. |
Oh, hard to please some noblemen seem!
At first, if anything, too unbending;
Off we go to the other extreme —
Too confoundedly condescending! |
| Duke. |
Now a gavotte perform sedately —
Offer your hand with conscious pride;
Take an attitude not too stately,
Still sufficiently dignified. |
| Marco & Giuseppe. |
Now for an attitude not too stately,
Still sufficiently dignified. |
They endeavour to carry out his instructions.
| Duke. (beating time) |
Oncely, twicely — oncely, twicely —
Bow impressively ere you glide.
Marco & Giuseppe do so.
Capital both, capital both — you've caught it nicely!
That is the style of thing precisely! |
| Casilda & Duchess. |
Capital both, capital both — they've caught it nicely!
That is the style of thing precisely! |
| Marco & Giuseppe. |
Oh, sweet to earn a nobleman's praise!
Capital both, capital both — we've caught it nicely!
Supposing he's right in what he says,
This is the style of thing precisely! |
| Casilda & Duchess. |
Marco, Giuseppe & Duke. |
| Capital both, capital both — you've caught it nicely! |
Ah! this |
| That is the style of thing precisely! |
the style, |
| That is the style of thing, |
This is the style of thing, |
| The style of thing precisely! |
The style of thing precisely! |
Gavotte. At the end exeunt Duke and Duchess, leaving Casilda with Marco and Giuseppe.
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25 July, 2006
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