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+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76960 ***</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+<div class='nf-center c000'>
+    <div><span class="tp-1">THE MINOR DRAMA.</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div>The Acting Edition.</div>
+    <div>No. CXXXI.</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id001'>
+<img src='images/title-page-decoration.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+  <h1 class='c001' title='The Corsair'>THE CORSAIR;</h1>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+<div class='nf-center c002'>
+    <div>OR, THE</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div><span class="tp-2">LITTLE FAIRY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div><span class="tp-3">A New Christmas Burlesque and Pantomime,</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div>Founded upon the Ballet of “Le Corsaire.”</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class='c003'>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div><span class="tp-2">BY WILLIAM BROUGH, ESQ.,</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='cwrap'>
+
+<p class='c004'><i>Author of Perdita, or the Royal Milkmaid, Prince Prettypet and the
+Butterfly, Trying It On, <a id='tn-smockfrock'></a>Phenomenon in a Smock-frock,
+A Comical Countess, &#38;c., &#38;c.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class='c003'>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div><span class="tp-4">TO WHICH ARE ADDED</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='cwrap'>
+
+<p class='c004'>A description of the Costume—Cast of the Characters—Entrances
+and Exits—Relative Positions of the Performers on the
+Stage, and the whole of the Stage Business.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div><span class="tp-4">AS PERFORMED AT THE</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div><span class="tp-3">PRINCIPAL ENGLISH AND AMERICAN THEATRES.</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id001'>
+<img src='images/title-page-decoration.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div><span class="tp-3">NEW YORK:</span></div>
+    <div><span class="tp-2"><span class="expand">SAMUEL FRENC</span>H,</span></div>
+    <div><span class='sc'>122 Nassau Street</span>; (<span class='sc'>Up Stairs.</span>)</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c002'>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+  <h2 class='c005'><a id='dramatis'></a>Cast of Characters.—[<span class='sc'>The Corsair.</span>]</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id001'>
+<img src='images/dramatis-decoration.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'>
+</div>
+
+<table class='table0'>
+<colgroup>
+<col class='colwidth60'>
+<col class='colwidth20'>
+<col class='colwidth20'>
+</colgroup>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'>&#160;</td>
+    <td class='c007'><i>Royal Lyceum, London, Dec. 26, 1856.</i></td>
+    <td class='c008'><i>Wallack’s Theatre 1857.</i></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'><a id='tn-water'></a><i>Conrad, the Corsair</i>, (“a notable Pirate and salt water Thief,” gloomy, misanthropical, ironical and Byronical,)</td>
+    <td class='c007'>Mrs. A. Melion, <span class='fss'>LATE</span> Miss Woolgar.</td>
+    <td class='c008'>Mrs. John Wood.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'><i>Birbanto</i>, (his Lieutenant—an Officer, but not a Gentleman,)</td>
+    <td class='c007'>Mr. J. L. Toole.</td>
+    <td class='c008'>Mr. John Wood.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'><i>Seyd (or Seedy) Pasha</i>, (a terrible Turk,)</td>
+    <td class='c007'>Mr. Barrett.</td>
+    <td class='c008'>Mr. H. B. Phillips.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'><a id='tn-headcook'></a><i>Syng Smaul</i>, (a General Officer—Major-domo, Head Cook and Bottle-washer to the Pasha,)</td>
+    <td class='c007'>Mr.  Holston.</td>
+    <td class='c008'>Mr. Holmes.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'><i>Yussuf</i>, (in his own country Joseph—or familiarly, Old Joe—a renegade Slave Merchant,)</td>
+    <td class='c007'>Mr. S. Calharm.</td>
+    <td class='c008'>Mr. Peters.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'><i>Hassan</i>, (a Boatswain,)</td>
+    <td class='c007'>Miss Goward.</td>
+    <td class='c008'>&#160;</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'><i>Medora</i>, (a Grecian Maiden, Niece and Ward to Yussuf—a sacred pledge intrusted to her uncle,)</td>
+    <td class='c007'>Mrs. C. Dillon.</td>
+    <td class='c008'>Miss J. Manners.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'><i>Gulnare</i>, (the reigning Beauty of the Pasha’s Harem, his favorite, and most other people’s, it is hoped—including the audience,)</td>
+    <td class='c007'>Mrs. B. White.</td>
+    <td class='c008'>Mrs. Vernon.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'><a id='tn-mrscook'></a><i>Zuliema</i>, (a “light of other days” a little “faded,”)</td>
+    <td class='c007'>Mrs. C. Melville.</td>
+    <td class='c008'>Mrs. Cook.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'><i>Submarina</i>, (the Fairy guardian of the Deep, Deep Sea, Chief Inspector of the Ocean Police, and Deputy Ruler of the Waves,)</td>
+    <td class='c007'>Miss J. Ryder.</td>
+    <td class='c008'>Mrs. H. B. Phillips.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c006'><i>Serena</i>, (the Little Fairy <a id='tn-ofthesea'></a>at the bottom of the Sea,)</td>
+    <td class='c007'>Mrs. M. Wilton.</td>
+    <td class='c008'>Miss Emily Milton.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008' colspan='3'><i><a id='tn-guards'></a>Corsairs, Slaves, Odalisques, Almas, Water Nymphs, Fairies, Guards, Attendants, &#38;c.</i></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c002'>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c009'>
+    <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span><span class='xlarge'>THE CORSAIR.</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+
+<div>
+  <h2 class='toc c005'>Scene I</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c010'>SCENE I.—<i>Marine Aquarium, or Naiad’s Coralline Temple—<span class='sc'>Water
+Spirits</span> discovered sleeping in shells; <span class='sc'>Tritons</span> come in and
+arouse them, by sounding their conches; <span class='sc'>Spirits</span> rise and dance;
+a coral grotto rises, having in it <span class='sc'>Submarina</span>, <span class='sc'>Coralia</span>, <span class='sc'>Azurina</span>,
+<span class='sc'>Tempestia</span>, &#38;c.</i></p>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c011'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Friends, mermaids, sprites and guardians of the sea,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Leave off your dancing and attend to me;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>This is a public meeting, not a ball;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Here come, I’ll take the chair—now silence, all.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>All.</i></span>Hear! hear!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i> [<span class='fss'>C.</span>]</span><span class="vanish">Hear! hear!</span>Do let me speak, I say, once more—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Friends, sprites and guardians,</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Cor.</i></span><span class="vanish">Friends, sprites and guardians,</span>That you said before.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Another interruption of this sort,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And I’ll—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Cor.</i> [<span class='fss'>R. C.</span>]</span><span class="vanish">And I’ll—</span>Well, well, go on—but cut it short;</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Friends, sprites, <span lang="la"><i>et cetera</i></span>—We’ve assembled thus,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The state of our dominions to discuss;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Each day we read, in the <cite>Subaqueous Times</cite>,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Of murders, robberies, and other crimes,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Daily committed with impunity,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>In open day—upon the open sea—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Till none are safe who roam the ocean o’er.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Cor.</i></span>They’re just as safe as if they stayed on shore;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>There, too, I’m told, you’ll find on the increase—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Burglaries—robberies—but <em>not</em> police.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Pray, what’s the shore to you—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Cor.</i></span><span class="vanish">Pray, what’s the shore to you—</span>I but to tell ye meant.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Pooh! pooh! on land we’re quite out of our element;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>What we’ve to do, is to find out some plan</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To rid the ocean of that bad young man,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Conrad the Corsair.—None can safety gain</div><br>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>
+<div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Until, like gas, he’s turned off from the main;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>At all attempts to do so, he has laughed,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>While his great cunning saves his little craft;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>All commerce doth he from the waters sweep—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Cleans out the simple ones and scours the deep;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>None cross the seas thro’ fear of this vile rover—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Their spirits fail, ere they get half seas over—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>In short, unless mankind from him we save,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>There’ll soon be <em>no</em> life on the ocean wave.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Cor.</i></span>What shall we do, in his career to check him—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Azurina.</i></span>Hang him!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span><span class="vanish">Hang him!</span>Can’t catch him.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Tempestia.</i></span><span class="vanish">Hang him!Can’t catch him.</span>Raise a storm and wreck him.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>A good idea, most reckless of all men;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>His ship destroyed, he’ll not be wreckless then.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>About it straight.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Music.</i>—<i><span class='sc'>Serena</span> rises through trap, <span class='fss'>L. C.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">About it straight.</span>One moment hear me, pray.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>A motion, an arrest of judgment, eh!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span>Not only that, but one for a new trial.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Nay—his guilt’s plain.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">Nay—his guilt’s plain.</span>Too plain for my denial.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But ’stead of punishing, could we reclaim him—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Can you reclaim a tiger?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">Can you reclaim a tiger?</span>You can tame him!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Let me attempt the task.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Cor.</i></span><span class="vanish">Let me attempt the task.</span>Nay, have a care,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>We don’t want Conrad made a tame affair.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Say by what potent magic will you try?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span>One which the rudest breast can purify—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Lifting the soul all meaner thoughts above—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The magic influence of woman’s love.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Cor.</i></span>Ho! ho! I see—the Corsair’s handsome face</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And figure, eh?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Azurina.</i></span><span class="vanish">And figure, eh?</span>A most decided case.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Cor.</i></span>You’re smitten, miss.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">You’re smitten, miss.</span>I scorn the imputation;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I am a fairy, and I know my station!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>No quarreling—I own your plan seems strange;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Think you that love can work this mighty change?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span>Madam, I’ve heard of fast young men on town,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Desperate dogs, by marriage settled down—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Men, who for years would not go home till morning,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Found the domestic tea-table adorning;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><a id='tn-smokers'></a>Smokers, I’ve heard, have put their pipes out—nay</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’ve even heard of latch-keys thrown away.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Can love do this, and yet be unavailing,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To cure a paltry pirate’s little failing?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Let Conrad only get a loving wife,</div><br>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span>
+<div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And, on my word, he’ll lead another life.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Enough—we’ll try your plan.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">Enough—we’ll try your plan.</span>I ask no more,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Than leave of absence for a month on shore—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>If, ere that time be passed, I don’t succeed,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Then wreck him, or whate’er you please—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span><span class="vanish">Then wreck him, or whate’er you please—</span>Agreed!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><a id='tn-serena'></a>[<i>Music.</i>—<i>The <span class='sc'>Spirits</span> form a group, and <span class='sc'>Serena</span> is seen
+darting up towards the earth as the scene closes.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+
+<div>
+  <h2 class='toc c005'>Scene II</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c010'>SCENE II.—<i>Market Place in Stamboul, and Oriental Slave Bazaar.</i></p>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c014'><i>Cheering outside.</i>—<i>Enter <span class='sc'>Corsairs</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span>Come lads, our Captain’s given us a holiday</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>On shore to-day, and so let’s have a jolly day—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>We’ve been of late so close to business sticking,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>We want some change.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>2d Cors.</i></span><span class="vanish">We want some change.</span>Let’s try some pocket-picking⁠—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span>You’d find small change in that—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>2d Cors.</i></span><span class="vanish">You’d find small change in that—</span>Yes, ’twould be strange,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>In people’s pockets not to find <em>small change</em>.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>3d Cors.</i></span>But see, our noble Captain comes this way—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span>Three cheers for Conrad—Hip, hip, hip, hurray!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Conrad</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>There, that’ll do—Hip, hip, indeed—what stuff—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>As if I’m not already hipped enough.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Crosses <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+       <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span>Cheer up, my hearty—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Cheer up, my hearty—</span>Man! I’m not your hearty,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And to cheer up, I’m not at all the party.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span>Why is great Conrad ever sad?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Why is great Conrad ever sad?</span>Ah, why?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Who can explain this secret grief; not I—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>That secret kept so dark, none e’er saw through it—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I don’t believe that even Byron knew it.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Crosses, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Go, go, poor giddy things, employ your leisure,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>In seeking what the thoughtless world calls pleasure.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span>Say, is there aught you’d like, that we can bring,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To soothe your grief—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i> [<span class='fss'>L.</span>]</span><span class="vanish">Tosootheyourgrief——</span>I don’t like anything;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The gloomy spirit in this aching breast,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Despises most things, and can’t bear the rest;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Deems happiness an empty sound, no more;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The world a humbug—life itself a bore—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>There’s nothing in it! Leave me.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>They are going.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">There’s nothing in it! Leave me.</span>Tell me, though,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Hast seen Birbanto our lieutenant?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span><span class="vanish">Hast seen Birbanto our lieutenant?</span>No.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exeunt, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Birbanto</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>Behold him, here! What would great Conrad—Eh?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Anything wanted in my little way?</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Drawing his dagger.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><a id='tn-itsdone'></a>If so, just give your orders and it’s done—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>From pitch and toss to manslaughter, all’s one.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Thou art the best o’ the cut-throats—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">Thou art the best o’ the cut-throats—</span>I’m no bragger,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But, I must say, I’m not bad at a dagger,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’ve one to serve you with in any way,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>[<i>Aside.</i>] And serve you out with, too, I hope, some day.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>You’re very kind.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">You’re very kind.</span>But pardon the suggestion—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>My dagger’s point was not the point in question.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You asked for me—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">You asked for me—</span>I might have done. Heigho!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>Pooh! try some drink—you’re several cups too low.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Nay, I have tried—I drained a flask this minute⸺</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>Well, when you’d drained it?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Well, when you’d drained it?</span>There was nothing in it.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>All things I’ve tried, but they bring no relief</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To the used-up, bored, <span lang="fr"><i>blase</i></span> pirate chief.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Travel I’ve tried, from place to place still dodging,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You’ll find me <em>bored</em> where’er you find me lodging.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The stormy waves no change to me afford,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>For if I’m shipwrecked, still I’m over<i>board</i>;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’ve sought excitement east, west, north, and south,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>In battle-strife—e’en at the cannon’s mouth,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But all in vain: amid the battle’s roar,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I found the cannon’s mouth was but a <em>bore</em>!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Enough of this.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span><span class="vanish">Enough of this.</span>Too much for me to stand;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>A pretty fellow to command our band.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Oh, I should like to⸺</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Raises dagger; <span class='sc'>Conrad</span> turns round; <span class='sc'>Birbanto</span></i></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><i>bows after the approved style of melodrama.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Oh, I should like to⸺</span>Where’s my galley?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<i>Pointing off <span class='fss'>R.</span></i>]</span><span class="vanish">Oh, I should like to⸺Where’s my galley?</span>Sir,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The <em>gal</em>ley’s there—that <em>buoy</em>’s attached to her.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Keep her in readiness to sail to-night,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>In case of accidents. D’ye hear?</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Same business with the dagger.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<i>Bowing.</i>]</span><span class="vanish">In case of accidents. D’ye hear?</span>All right!</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit <span class='sc'>Conrad</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>It shall be so. We’ve stood him long enough—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>A spoony, pining, sentimental muff;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>He’s not at all my notion of a Corsair—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I like black worsted curls and beard of horsehair;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The good old heavy style of melodram,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>More like the individual I am.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Yet the band love him. Well, it is but right</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To own he is the very deuce to fight,</div><br>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>
+<div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>When he begins. No matter! we shall see</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Which they prefer to lead them—him or me!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To sound them on the point, at once I go forth.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Shaking his fist towards where <span class='sc'>Conrad</span> has gone off.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Tremble! Despair! Ha, ha! Revenge! and so forth!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c016'>
+    <div><i>Song.</i>—<span class='sc'>Birbanto.</span>—<i>Air, “Dusty Bob’s Hornpipe.”</i></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='song'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Scruples, lie down—for in guilt I’m dyed so deep already;</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>Harder ’twould be to go back than to proceed.</div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>After the scores that this dagger’s sent to sleep already</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>Why should I pause at one other little deed?</div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Tremble, proud Conrad—a foe you don’t expect in me;</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>Tremble—despair—as, I think, I said before.</div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You once removed—as their leader—they electing me—</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>Crown all the hopes that so long I’ve pondered o’er.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Let them consent, and but once transfer the rule to me,</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>I’d show them how they their work should go about;</div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>A ticket-of-leave man himself would be a fool to me;</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>Garotters confess that I beat ’em out and out.</div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Robbing, attacking all—plundering, whacking all—</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>I get the lion’s share, of course, of all the dibs;</div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>If they’ll fall in with it, now I’ll begin with it,</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>Sticking at nothing except our leader’s ribs.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter a number of female <span class='sc'>Slaves</span>, followed by <span class='sc'>Yussuf</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><a id='tn-ff1'></a><i>Yussuf.</i></span>Now then, you tarnal critters, look alive.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I have had many lots of slaves to drive,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Of all sorts and complexions—black, white, and red;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You whip them all—from Uncle Tom to Dred!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Come, look alive, I tell you. Take your places,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>None of your airs—but plenty of your graces.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Be careful of your smiles, and mind your eyes;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>It’s market-day, remember. Come, who buys?</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>March.</i>—<i>Enter <span class='sc'>Pasha</span>, <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span>, and <span class='sc'>Guards</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Halt! curs!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">Halt! curs!</span>Halt, curs—d’ye hear?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Halt! curs!Halt, curs—d’ye hear?</span>Of course they hear.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i> [<span class='fss'>L.</span>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Great Pasha!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish"><a id='tn-slavebid'></a>Great Pasha!</span>Slave, who bid you interfere?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span>I’m dumb.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i> [<span class='fss'>R.</span>]</span><span class="vanish">I’m dumb.</span>Great Brother of the Sun and Moon,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>How do you find yourself, this afternoon?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i> [<span class='fss'>C.</span>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>We thank thee, dog, we’re pretty well.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">We thank thee, dog, we’re pretty well.</span>Rejoice!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Let all the earth raise high its joyful voice;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>All care and grief from every heart abolish,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Our mighty Pasha, feels himself tol-lol-ish.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Shout all of you.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>All shout.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>
+<div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i> [<i>Striking him.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Shout all of you.</span>Be quiet—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syn.</i> [<i>Striking another.</i>]</span><span class="vanish">Shout all of you.Be quiet—</span>Slaves, be dumb.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>How dare you make this row—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">How dare you make this row—</span>But business—come—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>What hast thou got to sell, dog?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span><span class="vanish">What hast thou got to sell, dog?</span>Sire, I deem</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>These here Circassians, the Circassian cream</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Of excellence, in all points—figures—faces—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Trot out, you critters, come, and show your paces.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Music.</i>—<i>The <span class='sc'>Slaves</span> dance out one by one, and pass before the <span class='sc'>Pasha</span>.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i> [<i>Looking at them one by one.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Too dark! too fair! too red! too short! too tall!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Too lean! too fat! pooh! pooh! won’t do at all.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Hast thou no others, pig?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span><span class="vanish">Hast thou no others, pig?</span>No, sire; you see</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>My wholesale merchant disappointed me;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’ve ordered in some beauties.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">I’ve ordered in some beauties.</span>Reptile, peace!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Who’s this?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span><span class="vanish">Who’s this?</span>That, sire? Medora, my young niece.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Medora</span>, dancing, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>There, that’ll do—just cut these capers—stop!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Must I for ever catch you on the hop?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Nay, be not angry, uncle—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span><span class="vanish">Nay, be not angry, uncle—</span>Then stand still!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><a id='tn-withpleasure'></a>With pleasure, if it pleases you, I will;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But I’m so happy—feel my heart so light;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The air’s so balmy, and the sun so bright.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The gladness that’s inspired by all around,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Finds vent in <em>jumps</em>, because it knows no <em>bound</em>.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>She’ll do! Come hither, dog, a word with you.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><span class='sc'>Yussuf</span> approaches, they whisper, <span class='fss'>L. C.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<i>Uneasy.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>What’s that dark stranger, whispering?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">What’s that dark stranger, whispering?</span>Pooh! pooh!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>But, sire, to sell one’s niece, like any nigger!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>’Possums and rattlesnakes! Say what’s the figure?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i> [<span class='fss'>L.C.</span>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Name your own price.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i> [<span class='fss'>L.</span>]</span><span class="vanish">Name your own price.</span><a id='tn-goodtrue'></a>My niece—so good, so true—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>So dear to me. Well, she’ll be dear to you,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>What say you to one thousand chequeens?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">What say you to one thousand chequeens?</span>Done.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I wish I’d ask’d him five, instead of one.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><a id='tn-presentiment'></a>What strange presentiment of woe comes o’er me?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Conduct her home.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">Conduct her home.</span>Fair slave, just march before me!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Slave! knave! behave! I am no slave—I’m free!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You are deceived;</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">You are deceived;</span>Nay, you are sold—not me;</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>I sold! Who’d dare to sell me?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">I sold! Who’d dare to sell me?</span>Can’t you guess—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Oh, my prophetic soul! my uncle—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span><span class="vanish">Oh, my prophetic soul! my uncle—</span>Yes;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’m very sorry, but—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">I’m very sorry, but—</span>You sorry—stuff!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>I guess I am. [<i>Aside.</i>] I didn’t charge enough.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<i>To <span class='sc'>Pasha</span>.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I am no slave, good sir, I’m free—then please ye,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To calm my fears, and make me free and easy.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>There! don’t orationize the case about.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>If you’re my uncle, you will let me spout.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>No words—you are my slave.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Seizes her.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">No words—you are my slave.</span>Help! help!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Conrad</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">No words—you are my slave.Help! help!</span>How now?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Some work for me it seems; I like a row.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Draws sword.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Villains!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Villains!</span>Holloa!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Villains!Holloa!</span>Sir, save me if you can—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Yes, I’ll <em>see fair</em>; I’m a <em>sea-faring</em> man;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And on the stage no sailor can do less,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Than rescue lovely women in distress:</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And so here goes.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Throws <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span> across to <span class='fss'>R.</span></i>—<i>Tableau.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish"><a id='tn-hewhim'></a>And so here goes.</span>Guards, hew him limb from limb!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>No, mercy! take my life, but pardon him.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Pooh! pooh! fair maid, let them come on—they dare not;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Come—the whole lot of you at once—I care not.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c016'>
+    <div><i>Song.</i>—<span class='sc'>Conrad.</span>—<i>Air, “La tremenda ultrice Spada.”</i></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='song'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Ten to one, now come on to the attack, sirs,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Were it ten times ten I’d not yield, sirs,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>What’s the odds, I myself still back, sirs,</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>Ten to one on the favorite ’gainst the field.</div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Ten to one—who says done?—still no takers,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Ten to one—you, my friends, are quakers,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Ten to one—you’ll say done in a crack, sirs.</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>When my name and my address I have revealed.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><a id='tn-yussuf'></a><i>Yussuf.</i> [<span class='fss'>R.</span>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Go at him—all at once.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><span class='sc'>Guards</span> rush forward.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Go at him—all at once.</span>Stay! by-the-bye,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You’d like to know, p’rhaps, who I am?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">You’d like to know, p’rhaps, who I am?</span>Not I!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Well, mind you, I can fight—I give you warning.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Who can it be, these fearful odds thus scorning?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>My guards are ready.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">My guards are ready.</span>Stay—your name avow!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Conrad the Corsair!</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><span class='sc'>Guards</span> shrink away.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Conrad the Corsair!</span>Are they ready now?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>Jerusalem!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'><a id='tn-jerusalem'></a>[<i>Exit, <span class='fss'>R.</span>, followed by the <span class='sc'>Girls</span>.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Jerusalem!</span>The Corsair! murder! fire!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Runs out, followed by <span class='sc'>Guards</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i> [<span class='fss'>L.</span>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Fair maid, you’re safe—permit me to retire.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<span class='fss'>R.</span>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><a id='tn-flytoo'></a>Nay, fly not yet, or else let me fly too,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’m not safe here—they’ll soon return.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">I’m not safe here—they’ll soon return.</span>That’s true,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And doubtless, though the case I’ve yet to learn,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You’ll get small profit by their quick return;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But still to come with me⸺</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">But still to come with me⸺</span>Oh, take me hence!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I will not put you to the least expense;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’ll work my passage out—wash, cook, bake, brew for you.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Will be your slave, and regularly do for you.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I fear you would, if long at you I looked,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And my own goose be the first thing you cooked.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>[<i>Aloud.</i>] But think upon the dangers of the sea.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Those dangers have no terrors, sir, for me.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>A common boast—the would-be yachting man,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Who talked so bravely ere the trip began,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I have seen rush, at the first lurch, to leeward,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>His boasting sunk in one faint cry of “steward.”</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Fear not my courage; take me with you, do.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>I’ve half a mind.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">I’ve half a mind.</span>I should be safe with you;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But if left here alone, then should I be</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><em>Alone</em> without the least <em>security</em>.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Enough! it shall be so—your words prevail.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The best security is <em>power of sail</em>;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>So, to set sail at once must be our plan,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The crew may follow the best way they can.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c016'>
+    <div><i>Song.</i>—<span class='sc'>Conrad.</span>—<i>Air, “My Skiff is by the Shore.”</i></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='song'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>My skiff is on the shore, she manned must be,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>By one little boy, yourself, and me;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Can I call it manned, though, when of the three,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>One is a small boy, and another a she.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">One is a small boy, and another a she.</span>Fa, la, la, &#38;c.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>My skiff is on the shore—then come with me,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Since here with you ’twould be all U P.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><span class='sc'>Medora</span> dances to chorus—exeunt, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i><span class='sc'>Serena</span> rises from trap, <span class='fss'>R. C.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span>So far, so good! my plans are working nicely;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>That’s just the sort of girl he wants precisely,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Modest, sportive, happy, kind, affectionate;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>With heart as light as a cheap grocer’s weight.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>He’s half in love as ’tis—but to make sure,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>All sorts of dangers they shall first endure;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>For true love’s course, in palace, cottage, booth,</div><br>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>
+<div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Like omnibuses, never yet ran smooth;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And of all plans to win a man’s affection,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The surest is, to trust him for protection.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To aid my plans, first, shipwrecked he shall be;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>When the ship sinks, all must go swimmingly—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To raise the wind, at once the seas I’ll cross,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And set the waves all playing pitch and toss.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c016'>
+    <div><i>Song.</i>—<span class='sc'>Serena.</span>—<i>Air, “Over the Sea.”</i></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='song'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Over the sea!—now will I flee—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Mind, it’s a secret between you and me;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Soon you will see—don’t say ’twas me—</div><br>
+      <div class='line in4'>Somebody coming it strong!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Even March! March! March!</div><br>
+      <div class='line in4'>With his winds and rough weather,</div><br>
+      <div class='line in4'>Such storm ne’er could gather:</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Old March! March! March!</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>Shall confess himself beaten ere long.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>It’s over the sea! Over the sea!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Like Mother Carey’s bird now will I flee—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Over the sea! Over the sea!</div><br>
+      <div class='line in4'>Raising the wind pretty strong.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+
+<div>
+  <h2 class='toc c005'>Scene III</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c010'>SCENE III.—<i>A Storm at Sea, with the wreck of the Golden Mary.</i></p>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c014'><i><span class='sc'>Conrad’s</span> vessel discovered, surrounded by the raging waters.</i> <i><span class='sc'>Conrad</span>,
+<span class='sc'>Medora</span> and <span class='sc'>Sailor</span>, discovered on the deck.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Courage, Medora, all will yet be well;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I s’pose you ne’er saw such a heavy swell?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Cheer up! you’re pale—you must be ill, I’m thinking?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>No, no! I only feel a little sinking.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Noise of ship striking.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Hark! the ship’s striking—we are lost!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Hark! the ship’s striking—we are lost!</span>Pooh! pooh!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Who cares, if the effect is striking too,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>If with the public we go down to-night!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>She sinks! we’re <em>going down</em>!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">She sinks! we’re <em>going down</em>!</span>We are? All right!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Ship sinks. Scene closes.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<p class='c012'></p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+
+<div>
+  <h2 class='toc c005'>Scene IV</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c010'>SCENE IV.—<i>The Pirate’s Home.</i>—<i>A large arch in <span class='fss'>C.</span>, with curtains closed. Music.</i></p>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c014'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Birbanto</span> and <span class='sc'>Yussuf</span>, stealthily, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i> [<span class='fss'>L.</span>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Say, stranger.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<span class='fss'>R.</span>]</span><span class="vanish">Say, stranger.</span><a id='tn-hush'></a>Hush! don’t speak,—don’t breathe—don’t wink!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>All slick, old coon, we see’d the critter sink</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>In last night’s storm.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">In last night’s storm.</span>He’s saved tho’, I’ll be bound;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Men born for his fate, never can be drowned.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>How was it we escaped?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">How was it we escaped?</span>Because, you see,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>We were not born for drowning more than he.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But come, to business! where’s the cash? fork out!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>I’d rather have the gal back, first.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">I’d rather have the gal back, first.</span>No doubt.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>I’ll liquidate, safe as the bank.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">I’ll liquidate, safe as the bank.</span>Just so;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But then banks are not always safe, you know.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>No trust.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i> [<i>Gives money.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Well, there. Now, how d’ye mean to fix him?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>A sleeping draught I’ll go at once and mix him,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>So strong, that if his food in it you steep,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You’d even catch a weasel fast asleep.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>I see. So then, when he this potion drinking,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Goes off like nodding, we go off like winking,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And take the gal.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span><span class="vanish">And take the </span>A rash step, p’raps, I’ve taken;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’d take a rasher, could I save my bacon,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And settle him at once, clean out of hand,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But that I fear the vengeance of the band.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>No matter, time will come. Hah! hah!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span><span class="vanish">No matter, time will come. Hah! hah!</span>I say.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>I beg your pardon. Come—away! away!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit melo-dramatically, followed by <span class='sc'>Yussuf</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Music.</i>—<i>The curtains in the arch, <span class='fss'>C.</span>, are raised, and discover
+<span class='sc'>Conrad</span> reclining on a couch of tiger skins, smoking a chibouque,
+<span class='sc'>Medora</span> seated at his feet.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>And so your uncle sold you into slavery?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The monster!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">The monster!</span>Had it not been for your bravery⸺</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>There, that’s enough; these fervent thanks withhold.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Say, are you sure you haven’t caught a cold,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Last night when struggling with the waves so cruel?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Do let me make you just one drop of gruel.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Rises.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>A pirate taking gruel! doubtless you</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Would like my feet put in hot water, too?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>I should, ’twould do you good.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">I should, ’twould do you good.</span>And I suppose</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You’d further counsel tallowing my nose?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>’Twould be as well. Nay, come, from laughing cease;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Were you a patriot, you’d stick up for <em>grease</em>.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Her care for me is really charming! Come,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Sit down, Medora—make yourself at home.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Nay, I’m your slave.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span><span class="vanish">Nay, I’m your slave.</span>My love for her gets stronger.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Your waiting maid.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Your waiting maid.</span>Nay, you shall wait no longer.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>He rises; she dances away coquettishly, he following</i>—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><i><span class='sc'>Conrad</span> sings to music of dance.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c016'>
+    <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span><i>Air.—“The Fan Dance.” (Spanish.)</i></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='song'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Sweetest, your charms have restored me,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>All once bored me—<i>ennui</i> floored me.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Oh, my heart now you’ve fill’d with gladness,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Away have you chased its sadness!</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>Medora, oh! don’t say me no.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Say you’ll be mine—then pray do, love!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>For ’tis you, love, are my true love;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Oh! don’t turn away your face, dear,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But do grant me one embrace, dear,</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>You will not refuse me, I know.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Come, sweet Medora—say that you’ll be mine!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i><span class='sc'>Birbanto</span> crawls on from <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>Now, how to do it—hah, the wine! the wine!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Pours liquid from vial into <span class='sc'>Conrad’s</span></i></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><i>glass, and exit at back. <span class='sc'>Medora</span> sinks</i></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><i>into <span class='sc'>Conrad’s</span> arms; he kisses her.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>No more a slave—this liberty affords you;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Your lover, not your master, looks towards you.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Drinks</i>—<i>chord.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>How’s this? a sudden drowsiness, methinks;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Would you excuse me just for forty winks?</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Sleeps.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Sleep—I’ll hold watch, so shall no harm befall him.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Holding the watch, I shall know when to call him.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Soft music.—Enter <span class='sc'>Yussuf</span> and <span class='sc'>Birbanto</span>, stealthily, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>There lies the man of mystery, dark and deep,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>So slow when waking—yet how fast asleep!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Now is your time—quick to your task allotted.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Gives him scarf.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>Slick as greased light’ning.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'><a id='tn-medorascarf'></a>[<i>Throws scarf over <span class='sc'>Medora’s</span> head.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">Slick as greased light’ning.</span>Cleverly garrotted.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<i>Struggling</i>:]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Help! Murder!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">Help! Murder!</span>Silence her—choke—muzzle—gag her.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Or, stay—let me assist you with a dagger.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>No. No.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">No. No.</span><a id='tn-helpcon'></a>Help! Conrad!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span><span class="vanish">No. No.Help! Conrad!</span>Silence—come along!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Drags her out, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Help!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<i>Calling after him.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Get a pitch-plaster and pitch it strong.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Corsairs</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span>What noise was that? A cry for help we heard—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>So just in time—[<i>aloud</i>]—a cry—pooh! pooh! absurd!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>2d Cors.</i></span>I’m sure I heard a voice for aid imploring—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>Pshaw! you’re mistaken—’twas our captain snoring.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i> [<i>Seeing <span class='sc'>Conrad</span>.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Conrad asleep!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">Conrad asleep!</span>Yes, that’s a pretty way</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>For a great pirate chief to pass the day!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Hear me, my friends—our captain is a do.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span>How?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">How?</span>Not the leader for brave men like you.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span>Nay, have a care how Conrad you abuse—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>A spooney humbug—always in the blues—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Pining and sighing—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>2d Cors.</i></span><span class="vanish">Pining and sighing—</span>Well, that’s true enough—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>He is too sentimental.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">He is too sentimental.</span>He’s a muff!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Not fit to be our leader.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span><span class="vanish">Not fit to be our leader.</span>P’raps you’re right.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>Didn’t he leave us all on shore, last night,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To get home as we could?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>2d Cors.</i></span><span class="vanish">To get home as we could?</span>That was a fault.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>Let’s give him pepper—he’s not worth his salt.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Corsairs.</i></span>We will—we will.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">We will—we will.</span>Said like brave men and true!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You mean, though, what you say?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Corsairs.</i></span><span class="vanish">You mean, though, what you say?</span>We do—we do.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>One blow and we are free—we then can take</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Another leader—come—</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'>[<i>Music.</i>—<i>They approach <span class='sc'>Conrad</span>, with daggers raised.
+The Scene opens and <span class='sc'>Serena</span> appears behind.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">Another leader—come—</span>Wake, Conrad, wake.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i> [<i>Starts up.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Methought I heard a voice cry, sleep no more—</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Sees <span class='sc'>Corsairs</span>.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Halloa! [<i>They slink away.</i>] Here, stop! don’t go. Ho! guard the door.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>This looks like a rebellion, eh, my men?</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><span class='sc'>Corsairs</span> kneel.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i> [<span class='fss'>L.</span>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Pardon us, mighty Conrad.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<i>Aside, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i>]</span><span class="vanish">Pardon us, mighty Conrad.</span>Sold again!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>2d Cors.</i></span>It was Birbanto, here, that drove us to it.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>Pardon, great chief, I didn’t go to do it.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Kneel, traitor!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<i>Kneeling.</i>]</span><span class="vanish">Kneel, traitor!</span>Can you, then, forgive?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Kneel, traitor!Can you, then, forgive?</span>Ne’er doubt it.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><a id='tn-throws'></a>Throws money amongst them.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Go drink my health, and say no more about it.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>All.</i></span>Long live great Conrad. Hip! hip! hip! hurrah!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exeunt <span class='sc'>Corsairs</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Defeated, foiled—no matter—hah! hah! hah!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit <span class='sc'>Birbanto</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i> [<i>Advances <span class='fss'>R.</span></i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Bravely done, Conrad, this great generosity.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Beg pardon! you’ll excuse my curiosity—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But whom have I the honor to address?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i> [<span class='fss'>R.</span>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I am a fairy.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">I am a fairy.</span>You then saved me?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i> [<span class='fss'>C.</span>]</span><span class="vanish">I am a fairy.You then saved me?</span>Yes.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Speak! where’s my love—my Venus—my Medora?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span>Your Venus! nay, prepare to meet a <em>floorer</em>!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>She’s gone!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">She’s gone!</span>Gone?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">She’s gone!Gone?</span>Nay, don’t start; yet p’raps you’d better,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And start at once, if back you hope to get her.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Tell me, where shall I seek my priceless treasure?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span>Promise me one thing first.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Promise me one thing first.</span>I do with pleasure.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>What is it?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">What is it?</span>That when you’ve regained this maid,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You will retire from the Corsair trade;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Marry, and live respectably.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Marry, and live respectably.</span>Agreed!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’ve long been weary of the life I lead—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>So I’ll reform.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">So I’ll reform.</span>This is indeed felicity!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Turn steady, and go in for domesticity:</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Stand for churchwarden, and the vestry sit on;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><a id='tn-likeabriton'></a>Aye, and pay rates and taxes like a Briton.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c016'>
+    <div><i>Duet.</i>—<i>Air, “Home, sweet Home.”</i></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="space"></span>All pleasures are fallacies for those who roam;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>Howe’er folks may grumble, there’s no place like home.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="space"></span>Tho’ duns may come daily—tho’ poor’s rates may call—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>Give me them and the butcher’s bill dearer than all.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<table class="brackets"><tr><td>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="space"></span>Home, home, sweet home,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>There’s no place like home;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>Whoever deny it, there’s no place like home.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="space"></span>Home, home, sweet home,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>A slow place is home;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>However, I’ll try it, and go in for home.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</td><td class="vc">
+
+<p class='c012'><span class="bigbracket">}</span></p>
+
+</td><td class="vc">
+
+<p class='c012'><span class="vertical">[<i>Together.</i>]</span></p>
+
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Both.</i></span><span class="space"></span>Farewell! Farewell!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<a id='tn-serenabracket'></a><i><span class='sc'>Serena</span> sinks, <span class='fss'>R. C.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c016'>
+    <div><i>Song.</i>—<span class='sc'>Conrad.</span>—<i>Air, “My Mary Ann.”</i></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='song'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Fare you well, my own Mary Ann,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Or whatever your name may be;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>These fairies seldom give their names,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And so I christen she, “Mary Ann.”</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Let me once more see my own turtle-dove,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’ll keep my word with you;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Excuse me if I’ve named you wrong,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And still assist me, do, Mary Ann.</div><br>
+      <div class='line in16'>Fare you well, my own Mary Ann, &#38;c.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+
+<div>
+  <h2 class='toc c005'>Scene V</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c010'>SCENE V.—<i>The Harem, with the Gardens of the Pasha’s Palace.</i></p>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c014'><i><span class='sc'>Odalisques</span> dancing. Enter <span class='sc'>Gulnare</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span>, and <span class='sc'>Zuliema</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span>; the <span class='sc'>Odalisques</span> dance round <span class='sc'>Gulnare</span>.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span>How’s this? Am I no longer mistress here?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>Well, don’t be angry with them, there’s a dear;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You can’t put old heads on young shoulders.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span><span class="vanish">You can’t put old heads on young shoulders.</span>No.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But you can take the young heads off them, though.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>They’d best not slight me!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">They’d best not slight me!</span>Madam, pray control</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Your passion; do now, there’s a good old soul.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span>Old soul! No matter—we shall see.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">Old soul! No matter—we shall see.</span>No doubt</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><a id='tn-spectacles'></a>With spectacles you might—you won’t without!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span>Proud beauty; though your eye now brightly twinkles⸺</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>There—there; don’t frown, it only shows the wrinkles.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span>Dare you thus openly, then, to deride</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>One whom the Pasha’s chosen for his bride?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>Nay, I’ve no wish a quarrel to be picking;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But you must own, my friend, you’re not a chicken.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span>I blush for you.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">I blush for you.</span>You can’t—your paint beneath⸺</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span>’Tis false!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">’Tis false!</span>Just so.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span><span class="vanish">’Tis false!Just so.</span>You say this to my teeth?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>To teeth—to hair—to all the charge extending;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>That wig—the head and <em>front</em> of your offending.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span>I’ll have you bow-stringed!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">I’ll have you bow-stringed!</span>Yes, a likely thing.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>First catch your <em>beau</em> before you talk of string.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>D’ye think the Pasha cares for you? Not he.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span>Indeed! But here he comes—now we shall see.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Pasha</span>, <span class='fss'>L. U. E.</span></i>—<i><span class='sc'>Zuliema</span> runs to him and seizes him by the arm.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c016'>
+    <div><i>Trio.</i>—<i>Irish Air.</i></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span><span class="space"></span>Mighty Pasha, grant your slave</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>Vengeance on this beauty bold.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="space"></span>Mighty Pasha, I would crave</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>Safety from this vixen old.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="space"></span>Will you hold this dreadful row, now?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span><span class="space"></span>Will you put this upstart down, now?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="space"></span>Her conceit has grown so big, sir—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span><span class="space"></span>She declares I wear a wig, sir—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="space"></span>How, now, now—will you hold your row?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>I’m by no means in good humor—not just now.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Leave me.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span><span class="vanish">Leave me.</span>Alas! your love for me, then, cools.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Embracing him.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Oh, be off—old fools are the worst of fools!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Come here, Gulnare—the cause of this explain:</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i> [<i><span class='fss'>R.</span>, Mincingly.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>It was my face.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i> [<span class='fss'>L.</span>]</span><span class="vanish">It was my face.</span>You see the cause is plain—</div><br>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>
+<div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>She boasted that she was your wife to be,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>When you remember, sire, you promised me.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I know, to both of them I’ve pledged my word—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>It’s very awkward, for I love a third.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span>Great Pasha, say, shall I not be your bride?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>I’ll leave it to your taste, sire, to decide.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c016'>
+    <div><i>Song.</i>—<span class='sc'>Pasha.</span>—“<i>Beggar’s Opera.</i>”</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='song'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>How happy could I be with neither;</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>Now t’other dear charmer’s away,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I don’t care a button for either;</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>And so what the deuce can I say,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Except tol de rol, oh, my Medora—</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>Tol de rol, rol de rol lay—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You’ve deserted your ardent adorer,</div><br>
+      <div class='line in2'>And left him to misery a prey.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+<div class="metrical"><div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup' style='width:100%'>
+    <div class='group'>
+<div class="sd-r"><div class="line">[<i>A loud single knock.</i></div></div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span>, <span class='fss'>L. 1 E.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>How now, slave?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">How now, slave?</span>Sire, a man is at the door,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>He’s got a slave to sell.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">He’s got a slave to sell.</span>I’ll buy no more.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span>.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’m plagued to death as ’tis, with those I’ve got.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Re-enter <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span>, <span class='fss'>L. 1 E.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>What now?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">What now?</span>He says you have bought this one.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">What now?He says you have bought this one.</span>What?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span>And though to you such message may sound funny;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>He said he would’nt leave without the money.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Insolent caitiff! show him in—and stay—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Request our headsman, too, to step this way.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span>.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Who is this madman, rushing on to slaughter?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div></div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Yussuf</span> with <span class='sc'>Medora</span>, veiled, <span class='fss'>L. 1 E.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>How are you, Pasha? Here’s the gal; I caught her.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>What girl, dog?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i> [<i>Raising her veil.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">What girl, dog?</span>See!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">What girl, dog?See!</span>Medora!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">What girl, dog?See!Medora!</span>Sire, have pity!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i> [<i>Looking at <span class='sc'>Medora</span>.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Young, but uncultivated!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i> [<i>Looking at <span class='sc'>Medora</span>.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Young, but uncultivated!</span>Plump, but pretty!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Save me, sir, from this man?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Save me, sir, from this man?</span>Nay, sweet—you see⸺</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>You won’t? Enough! Thus, then, myself I free.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Draws dagger; is about to stab herself.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span>Hold on, until I’m paid—at least. Ho! seize her.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Villain, for you, then.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Runs at him with dagger.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span><span class="vanish">Villain, for you, then.</span>Back her! stop her! ease her!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'><a id='tn-runsout'></a>[<i>Runs out, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Halloa! It seems your dagger you are quick at!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Yes, for great wrongs I never trifles stick at.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>But he’s your uncle.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<span class='fss'>L.</span>]</span><span class="vanish">But he’s your uncle.</span>Kindred’s no protection.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I raised this knife to cut my own connexion.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Nay, sweet Medora.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Kneels.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span><span class="vanish">Nay, sweet Medora.</span>Sir, what are you at?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Kneeling before a little minx like that.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Silence!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">Silence!</span>To me can you forget your vow?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Somebody stop these women’s tongues.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Somebody stop these women’s tongues.</span>How now?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span>A wandering dervise, by fatigue oppressed,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Begs you’ll allow him to come in and rest.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Admit him.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span> goes off, and returns with <span class='sc'>Conrad</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span>,
+disguised as a dervise; he bows to <span class='sc'>Pasha</span>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Admit him.</span>Sir, come in, your boon we grant.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>An <span class='sc'>Attendant</span> brings wine.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Drink, sir; this maid will dance meanwhile.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Drink, sir; this maid will dance meanwhile.</span>I shan’t.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>No sulks, young woman; we’ve an ugly knack</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Of giving ladies who rebel—the sack.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span>Into the river, tied in bags, they’re shied.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Tied in a bag? I care not what <em>betide</em>.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i> [<i>Aside to her.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Fear naught.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Fear naught.</span>That voice!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Fear naught.That voice!</span>Take heed—don’t shout like that out.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Talking of bags, I’d nearly let the cat out.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Once for all—will you dance at my command?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Stay, you’ve no music; let me call my band.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>[<i>Blows horn.</i>] My followers, ho!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">[<i>Blows horn.</i>] My followers, ho!</span>What mean these rude alarms?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>The trumpet calls, and thus we fly to arms.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>They embrace.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Tear them asunder!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'>[<i>Music.</i>—<i><span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span> seizes <span class='sc'>Medora</span></i>—<i>struggle,
+in which <span class='sc'>Conrad’s</span> cloak falls off.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Tear them asunder!</span>Ho! the Corsair! murder!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'>[<i><span class='sc'>Ladies</span> scream</i>—<i>all rush off, carrying <span class='sc'>Medora</span>,
+struggling, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i> [<i>Blows horn.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>My followers, ho!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><a id='tn-Birbanto'></a><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Birbanto</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">My followers, ho!</span>They’ll follow you no furder!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>You have not dared to tamper with them, slave?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><a id='tn-question'></a>Well, if you ask the question then—I <em>have</em>.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Traitor!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Draws sword.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">Traitor!</span>I scorn your threats and you alike!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>This to decide between us then.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<i>With the approved Victoria pronunciation.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">This to decide between us then.</span>Ster-ike!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Music.</i>—<i>They strike attitudes for a broad sword</i></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><i>combat</i>—<i><span class='sc'>Conrad</span> stops suddenly.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i> [<i>Looking at his sword, a light elegant one.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Stop! for stage combats this is not the thing,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Just wait while I exchange it at the wing.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Goes to wing, <span class='fss'>R.</span>, and returns with</i></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><i>the orthodox basket hilt.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Now then to meet your fate so well deserved.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Come on!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">Come on!</span>Ster-ike, as I before observed.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Desperate single combat</i>—<i><span class='sc'>Birbanto</span> gets the worst of it.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Help! help!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Help! help!</span>Take that—in vain for help you call.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i> [<i>Falls.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>That cut was the unkindest cut of all.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><a id='tn-villain'></a>Die, villain!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><span class='sc'>Guards</span> rush in and surround him.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">Die, villain!</span>Saved!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">Die, villain!Saved!</span>Ho! guards, to pieces tear him.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>I’m dished—I ask no quarter.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<i>Runs in <span class='fss'>R.</span>, and kneels.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">I’m dished—I ask no quarter.</span>Spare him—spare him.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Tableau</i>—<i>scene closes.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+
+<div>
+  <h2 class='toc c005'>Scene VI</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c010'>SCENE VI.—<i>A Corridor.</i>—<i>Practicable door, <span class='fss'>R.</span>, a barred window, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c014'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span>, leading in <span class='sc'>Medora</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span>Fair maid, you’ll be a prisoner here confined,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Till in this matter you’ve made up your mind.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>If you consent to be the Pasha’s wife,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Conrad the Corsair saves his forfeit life—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>If not, the hangman treats him to a drop!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Marry the Pasha, never.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i> [<i>Going.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Marry the Pasha, never.</span>Good.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Marry the Pasha, never.Good.</span>Yet stop—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Where is the prisoner?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i> [<i>Pointing to door, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Where is the prisoner?</span>In yon cell.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Where is the prisoner?In yon cell.</span>So near me.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>He shall decide for me! Ho, Conrad, hear me!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span>He can’t. ’Tis vain, so you may save your trouble!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Your voice is treble, but the doors are double.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’ll leave you to reflect.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">I’ll leave you to reflect.</span>Which can I choose—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The matrimonial, or the hangman’s noose?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The Pasha’s wife—oh, no; yet, if I falter,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>’Tis I that lead my Conrad to the halter.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>A footstep! who comes here?</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Gulnare</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">A footstep! who comes here?</span>Hush! not a word!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The Pasha’s proposition I have heard.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>And you advise me to refuse it flat?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>No, to accept it.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">No, to accept it.</span>What! wed a thing like that?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>It is a match most women’s hopes would lean to.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Indeed! then marry him yourself!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">Indeed! then marry him yourself!</span>I mean to.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Explain!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">Explain!</span>Nay, Conrad too, must present be.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Alas! they’ve locked him in, and ta’en the key.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>But I’ve a duplicate!</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Shows key.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">But I’ve a duplicate!</span>See, this will pick it.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Goes to door.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>A duplicate! that is, indeed, the ticket.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><span class='sc'>Gulnare</span> opens door, <span class='fss'>R. 2 E.</span>, <span class='sc'>Conrad</span> comes out, ironed.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>We meet again, my joy who now can tell?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<i>Looking in.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>What a vile dungeon!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">What a vile dungeon!</span>’Tis an awful cell.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Thus ironed too! these heavy fetters dangling.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>That loved form ironed! Well, it’s saved from mangling.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Sweet, ’twas your love that saved me—nothing but it.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Their swords were at my throat—you bid them cut it.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>But come, time flies—</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">But come, time flies—</span>Hah! true, a just remark.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Explain, too long they’ve kept me in the dark.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Points to cell.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>Kept in the dark—come, there you’re wrong, methinks.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Surely you’d light—those chains have lots of links.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Conrad, the Pasha offers you your freedom.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Hah! on what terms?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">Hah! on what terms?</span>In her confusion read ’em.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Her hand.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Her hand.</span><a id='tn-herhand'></a>And she consents? oh, no.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Her hand.And she consents? oh, no.</span><a id='tn-idont'></a>I don’t.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’d see him further first, and then I won’t.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Brave girl, ’twould be, were I of you bereft,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>A still more awful sell than that I’ve left.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>But I’ve a plan.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">But I’ve a plan.</span>Out with it.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">But I’ve a plan.Out with it.</span>’Tis that she</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Pretend submission until you are free.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Good!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Good!</span>But suppose he makes me sticks to it?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And marry him.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">And marry him.</span>Nay, trust to woman’s wit,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I mean to marry him myself—I told you;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>As the sole obstacle, I now behold you.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You gone, of all my hopes comes the revival,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>With your <em>departure</em>, I’ve no more <em>a rival</em>.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But some one comes; they must not here perceive me.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Get in.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Pushing <span class='sc'>Conrad</span> in.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i> [<i>Struggling.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Get in.</span>Get out.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">Get in.Get out.</span>Go, go.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Locks door.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Get in.Get out.Go, go.</span>You won’t deceive me?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>Trust me.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Trust me.</span><a id='tn-consenttosham'></a>I will.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>March.</i>—<i>Enter <span class='sc'>Pasha</span>, <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span>, <span class='sc'>Guards</span>, &#38;c., <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span><span class="vanish">Trust me.I will.</span>And now consent to sham!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Well madam, are you quite resolved?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Well madam, are you quite resolved?</span>I am.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Pause ere you speak—mind, your refusal crushes</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The Corsair’s chance. Your answer!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<i>Modestly.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">The Corsair’s chance. Your answer!</span>Spare my blushes.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>What, you consent?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">What, you consent?</span>Oh, sir!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">What, you consent?Oh, sir!</span>You do! you love me?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Can I believe that one so high above me</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Can honor thus his slave?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Can honor thus his slave?</span>Oh, joy! ’tis true!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Shout dogs!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">Shout dogs!</span>Shout dogs!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>All shout.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Shout dogs!Shout dogs!</span>Peace, slave! who spoke to you?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>For my sake you give up the Corsair?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">For my sake you give up the Corsair?</span>Clearly.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>It can’t be helped—I’m sorry for him, really,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>His fate is harsh, but even were it harsher,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Who would compare a pirate with a Pasha?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I like a wealthy husband—he, poor chap,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Comes with a ring, but comes without a rap.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Huzza! Shout, dogs!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>All shout.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Gulnare</span>, <span class='sc'>Zuliema</span>, and <span class='sc'>Ladies</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">Huzza! Shout, dogs!</span>What means this dreadful clatter?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i> [<i>Aside.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Gulnare, the deuce! There’ll be a scene—no matter.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>[<i>Aloud.</i>] Release the Corsair!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i><span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span> opens door, <span class='fss'>R. 2 E.</span>; <span class='sc'>Conrad</span> appears.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">[Aloud.] Release the Corsair!</span>Quick—his chains unbind!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Conrad, you’re free!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Conrad, you’re free!</span>You’re really very kind.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>There, there, be off—for thanks you needn’t tarry.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>But that young person I’m about to marry—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>She goes with me, of course!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">She goes with me, of course!</span>Nay, Conrad!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">She goes with me, of course!Nay, Conrad!</span>What?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You, too, desert me!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i> [<i>Aside to him.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">You, too, desert me!</span>Recollect my plot.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Hear me!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Hear me!</span>Away! you’re false—you can’t deny it!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<i>Aside to him.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I’m but pretending.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i> [<a id='tn-asidetoher'></a><i>Aside to her.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">I’m but pretending.</span>So am I—be quiet!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Oh, misery! worse than prison, bonds and fetters!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Enough, young man—she is to wed your betters.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Ladies, behold your future queen!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span><span class="vanish">Ladies, behold your future queen!</span>What, she?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>What’s to become of me?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">What’s to become of me?</span>And me?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">What’s to become of me?And me?</span>And me?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Can’t say, I’m sure.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Zuli.</i></span><span class="vanish">Can’t say, I’m sure.</span>This fills with grief my cup;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Support me! Oh, woe—woe!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Faints and is borne off, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Support me! Oh, woe—woe!</span>Gee wo—pull up!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>False maid! [<i>Aside to her.</i>] All right. [<i>Aloud.</i>] Can you desert me thus?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Of course the girl can’t marry both of us!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>And since my love cannot divided be,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You, Conrad, must give up your <span lang="fr"><em>chere amie</em></span> (share o’me.)</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Enough! I from the unequal contest cease;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>My heart is broken, but I’ll <em>keep the peace</em>;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And, since yours is the victory, I’ll be calm.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Thus I give up her hand, and yield the palm.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Say we part friends.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Say we part friends.</span>We do, though grief oppressing.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<a id='tn-weeping'></a><i>Weeping and joining their hands.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Take her, be happy—take a Corsair’s blessing.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Thanks! you are free—you now may cut, and when</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You have cut, mind, you needn’t come again.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Fear not.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i> [<i>Aside to him.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Fear not.</span>Return at midnight—you can save her,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And also do me a great wedding favor.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Farewell! away my lonely course I take.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You needn’t trouble to send cards or cake.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Quick, slaves! make preparation, though ’tis late;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>This evening we’ll the nuptials celebrate.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Bright garlands on the walls of every room stick,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And bid the priest prepare the wedding broomstick.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exeunt <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span> and <span class='sc'>Guards</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>Come, madam, to your room let me conduct you.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>[<i>Aside.</i>] Then of my plans more fully I’ll instruct you.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Come, come.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exeunt <span class='sc'>Medora</span> and <span class='sc'>Gulnare</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span> and Guards, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Come, come.</span>How now, slave?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">Come, come.How now, slave?</span>Sire, the broomstick’s ready,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The priest awaits.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">The priest awaits.</span>Down, throbbing heart—be steady!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Oh, happiness! soon I my wife shall call her.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>She comes.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Gulnare</span>, veiled, followed by <span class='sc'>Women</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">She comes.</span>Holloa! it strikes me she’s grown taller.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>Sire, can you wonder that I taller stand,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Now you’ve made me the highest in the land?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Accept this ring; for ever thus united⸺</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Shall we proceed?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">Shall we proceed?</span>Sire, I shall be delighted.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Wedding March. Exeunt in procession, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Medora</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Saved! Saved! Gulnare will marry, in my stead.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Blessed land, where veils are worn upon the head,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Screening the face, secure from all beholders—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Instead of bonnets half way down the shoulders!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But for that fashion, all our plans would fail:</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Nought can succeed, when its without <em>avail</em>.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>They come!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exit, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>March repeated. Re-enter <span class='sc'>Pasha</span>, <span class='sc'>Gulnare</span>; <span class='sc'>Ladies</span> dancing before
+them, bearing flowers, &#38;c.; <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span>, <span class='sc'>Guards</span>, &#38;c., <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">They come!</span><a id='tn-tisdone'></a>’Tis done, the marriage rites are ended!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Go, fellows, and prepare a banquet splendid.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Lights, music, wine, provide in our pavilion;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Wine for ten thousand—music for the million.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exeunt <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span> and <span class='sc'>Guards</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>And you, dear, go remove your veil.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">And you, dear, go remove your veil.</span>I will!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Come, girls.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Exeunt <span class='sc'>Gulnare</span> and <span class='sc'>Ladies</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Come, girls.</span>Now, how the weary time to kill?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>She’ll be at least an hour and a quarter.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>She comes!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Medora</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">She comes!</span>Holloa! it strikes me she’s grown shorter!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>What! wonder if my head less high is carried?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Folks always <em>settle down</em> when they get married.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Come to my arms.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><span class='sc'>Medora</span> runs towards him and stops, frightened.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Come to my arms.</span>You shun them?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Come to my arms.You shun them?</span><a id='tn-myfright'></a>Nay, my fright</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Was at your weapons—not your arms.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Takes pistols from his belt.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Was at your weapons—not your arms.</span>That’s right.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><a id='tn-aretheyloaded'></a>Say, are they loaded?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Say, are they loaded?</span>Powdered, balled, and capped.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Good gracious!</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Lays them down at window.</i>—<i>Aside.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Good gracious!</span>Now, I think you’re nicely trapped.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>She dances playfully round him, he follows</i></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><i>with his hands raised supplicatingly.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Oh, what an attitude! stay, keep them so.</div>
+      <div class='sd-r'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Takes a scarf from her waist and ties them, he laughing.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Beautiful, charming! Hah! he’s there!</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><span class='sc'>Conrad</span> appears at window, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Beautiful, charming! Hah! he’s there!</span>Holloa!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Guards! treason!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<i>Catching up pistols.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">Guards! treason!</span>Peace! another word, you die!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Medora! quick! come, by this window fly!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Say, can you squeeze these narrow bars between?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>I can.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">I can.</span>Oh, joy! she wears no crinoline.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><span class='sc'>Medora</span> gets through window.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>One word, one question!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">One word, one question!</span>Well?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">One word, one question!Well?</span>That pistol, drop it.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Is that the question? peace, then, or I’ll pop it.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>They disappear.</i>—<i>The <span class='sc'>Pasha</span> goes to the</i></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><i>window.</i>—<i>A pistol is discharged without.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span>Gone!—treason!—murder!—help! My guards, what ho!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i><span class='sc'>Guards</span> rush in, <span class='fss'>L. 1 E.</span>, <span class='sc'>Gulnare</span> and <span class='sc'>Ladies</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span>What means this cry?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">What means this cry?</span>My bride has fled.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">What means this cry?My bride has fled.</span>Not so;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Here stands your bride.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Here stands your bride.</span>’Tis false!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="vanish">Here stands your bride.’Tis false!</span>This ring behold!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Ladies, salute your queen.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="vanish">Ladies, salute your queen.</span>Done! swindled! sold!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'>[<i>Falls into the arms of <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span>.</i>—<i><span class='sc'>Ladies</span> kneel to
+<span class='sc'>Gulnare</span>. Tableau—closed in.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+
+<div>
+  <h2 class='toc c005'>Scene VII</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c010'>SCENE VII.—<i>A Wood.</i></p>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c014'><i><span class='sc'>Serena</span> and <span class='sc'>Submarina</span> rise through traps, <span class='fss'>R.</span> and <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Good night, Serena, how d’ye do?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">Good night, Serena, how d’ye do?</span>Why who</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>On earth would ever dream of seeing you?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Why not?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">Why not?</span>I mean the sea’s your proper berth.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>So ask who’d dream of seeing you on earth?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>I’ve come to seek you.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">I’ve come to seek you.</span>What for, may I ask?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>To know how you’re progressing with your task.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Have you cured Conrad yet?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">Have you cured Conrad yet?</span>Well, very nearly.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Sub.</i></span>Your month expires to-morrow.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">Your month expires to-morrow.</span>Does it, really?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To-night then must decide—but see—he’s here!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Let us retire.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Music.</i>—<i>Enter <span class='sc'>Conrad</span>, supporting <span class='sc'>Medora</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Let us retire.</span>Come, come, Medora dear;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Rest here, I’ll call for help.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Rest here, I’ll call for help.</span>’Twould be no good,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To holloa, till we’re quite out of the wood.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Could I but find the path, we’d soon get home;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>The way to Greece, should be our way to <em>roam</em>.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Had I a compass, we’d know how to steer.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Without the needle, we’re sewed up, that’s clear;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>But still, I always thought you roving tars,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>To find your way, oft had to thank your stars.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>In this thick wood, my science is at fault,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>I cannot see them! Come, let’s on, though.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Birbanto</span>, with <span class='sc'>Corsairs</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">I cannot see them! Come, let’s on, though.</span>Halt!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>So, then, we’ve met; at last my turn arrives.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i> [<i>Kneeling.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Mercy! Take all we have, but spare our lives.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Medora, rise! Speak, friends—why this hostility?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>You are accused⸺</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">You are accused⸺</span>Of what?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">You are accused⸺Of what?</span>Respectability!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>You’ve heard of it, then?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">You’ve heard of it, then?</span>Yes, and they have picked out</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Another leader, <span lang="la"><i>vice</i></span> Conrad, kicked out.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>And may I ask, who my late post now fills?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>His name’s Birbanto, on the Grampian Hills⸺</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Indeed! I wish you joy.—Come.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Taking <span class='sc'>Medora’s</span> arm</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">Indeed! I wish you joy.—Come.</span>Not so fast!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Secure them.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Secure them.</span>How?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span><span class="vanish">Secure them.How?</span>Help! help!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Syng Smaul</span> and <span class='sc'>Guards</span>, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">Secure them.How?Help! help!</span>So caught at last.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Yield, all of you.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="vanish">Yield, all of you.</span>Come, my lads, ho! strike for freedom!</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You won’t?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i> [<i>Laughing.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="vanish">You won’t?</span>Not they, they’ve not got me to lead ’em.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>1st Cors.</i></span>Resume your post, and save us, we implore.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>2d Cors.</i></span>Do, sir; we’ll never disobey you more.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>Cowards!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">Cowards!</span>Resume my post—’tis a temptation.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Oh, no! think of your vows of reformation,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>For my sake!</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i><span class='sc'>Serena</span> appears, watching him with anxiety.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">For my sake!</span><a id='tn-trueillkeep'></a>True! I’ll keep them, love, with pleasure,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Sirs, my reform must be a final measure.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span>He’s saved!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span><span class="vanish">He’s saved!</span>No more discussion. March—yet stay—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>What’s that? Another prisoner comes this way</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Yussuf</span> chained</i>—<i>two <span class='sc'>Guards</span> following, <span class='fss'>L.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i> [<i>Sings.</i>]</span><br></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>Why did Medora sell me?</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>Through her these woes befel me.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>Why did Medora sell me,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>And bolt on her wedding day?</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>My uncle, and in chains!</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span><span class="vanish">My uncle, and in chains!</span>False critter, see</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>These fixins. You ’twas forged these bonds for me.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>I am no forger, sir.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="vanish">I am no forger, sir.</span>Cease this debate—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>We’ve heard too much of <em>forging bonds</em> of late.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Syng.</i></span>Now, guards, conduct your prisoners to their gaol.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i> [<i>Advances.</i>]</span></div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Hold! for this couple, sir, I put in bail.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span>Halloa! my friend, the fairy.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">Halloa! my friend, the fairy.</span>Yes, the friend</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Of all who, like you, strive their ways to mend.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>You’ve kept your word—with freedom I requite you.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>And to the Peri’s home to sup, invite you.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Medora.</i></span>Oh, joy.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i><span class='sc'>Conrad</span> and <span class='sc'>Medora</span> embrace.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">Oh, joy.</span>The rest must undergo their sentence.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>Hold on! I see there’s nothing like repentance—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>So I’ll turn steady, too.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="vanish">So I’ll turn steady, too.</span>You settle down?</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span>I’ll start a public company in town;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>Turn a strict man of business—try stock-jobbery</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div>On the Exchange! My cry—exchange no robbery.</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c016'>
+    <div><i>Song and Chorus.</i>—<i><span class='sc'>Air</span>, “One Bumper at Parting.</i>”</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Birb.</i></span><span class="space"></span>A company starting, though many</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>Have tried it and found it no go;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>I’ll endeavor at turning a penny,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>We won’t say if honest, or no.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Yussuf.</i></span><span class="space"></span>Guess I’m mortal sick of slave driving,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>Respectable dodges pay best;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>So if this here company’s thriving.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>I’m there like a shot, with the rest.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>
+      <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Conrad.</i></span><span class="space"></span>A real model husband I mean to be;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>All my used-up-ishness past,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>I forswear, since the world I have seen to be</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>Not quite so worthless at last,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>One favor I’d ask, do not spurn it, your</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>Aid, I’m quite strange to it yet—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>Do you know a good place to buy furniture.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>Or a snug cottage to let?</div><br>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>Enter <span class='sc'>Pasha</span> and <span class='sc'>Gulnare</span>, <span class='fss'>R.</span></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='metrical'>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Pasha.</i></span><span class="space"></span>Here, stop, I intend, by the wig o’ me,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>In this improvement to share,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>Henceforward renouncing polygamy,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>Stick to my own dear Gulnare.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Gul.</i></span><span class="space"></span>New hopes in my breast do you kindle;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>I’ll make you the happiest of men;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>Having gained all I wished by one swindle,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>I’ll never deceive you again.</div><br>
+    </div>
+    <div class='group'>
+            <div class='line'><span class='speaker'><i>Serena.</i></span><span class="space"></span><a id='tn-kindfriends'></a>Kind friends, in this great reform movement,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>No share for yourselves will you find,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>In your case there’s no room for improvement;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>But be—as you ever were—kind.</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>And now for the home of the Peri—</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>Bright scenes, where we’re bidden to sup;</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space"></span>But, remember, the brightest look dreary,</div><br>
+      <div class='line'><div class='spacer'> </div><span class="space-plus"></span>Unless by your smiles lighted up.</div>
+      <div class='sd-rx'>
+      <div class='line'>[<i>Repeat last verse in chorus.</i></div><br>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c012'><i>The scene opens and discovers</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+
+<div>
+  <h2 class='toc c005'>Scene VIII</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c010'>SCENE VIII.—<i>The Home of the Peri and Golden Gates of the Gardens
+of Perennial Spring.</i></p>
+
+<div class='sd-c'>
+
+<p class='c014'><i><span class='sc'>Submarina</span> appears, and the usual transformation of the characters
+takes place—Two Clowns, Harlequin, Pantaloon, three whalebone
+sprites, and two Columbines.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000'>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c017'>
+    <div><span class='large'>The Largest, Cheapest, and Best Magazine in the World!</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c018'>
+    <div>THE</div>
+    <div><span class='xlarge'>New York Journal</span></div>
+    <div>OF</div>
+    <div><span class='large'>ROMANCE, LITERATURE AND ART.</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c019'>
+    <div><span class='large'>BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c020'>Having purchased the well known <span class='sc'>New York Journal</span>, the present
+proprietor will <span class='fss'>CONTINUE IT PERMANENTLY</span>, and will hereafter issue it
+with such a liberal regard to its improvement in every branch of <span class='sc'>Literature</span>
+and <span class='sc'>Illustration</span>, as shall make it unsurpassed, in point of
+<span class='sc'>Attractiveness</span> and <span class='sc'>Real Value</span>, by any other Journal or Magazine.
+The <span class='sc'>New York Journal</span> WILL APPEAR PUNCTUALLY!</p>
+
+<p class='c021'>In size, a large quarto, each number will contain sixty-four pages,
+three columns wide. Its contents will embrace subjects selected and
+arranged so as to give, in the most agreeable manner, authentic <span class='sc'>Information</span>
+and <span class='sc'>Amusement</span> to every one.</p>
+
+<p class='c021'>The Journal will have <span class='sc'>One New</span> and <span class='sc'>Interesting Novel</span>, continued
+from number to number, alone worth the price of subscription; besides
+numerous <span class='sc'>Tales</span>, <span class='sc'>Romances</span>, <span class='sc'>Stories</span> and <span class='sc'>Poetry</span>.</p>
+
+<p class='c021'>In the DRAMA, <a id='tn-proprietor'></a>the proprietor presents a most agreeable feature,
+which does not exist in any other Journal, viz.: that of publishing in
+its columns an ENTIRE ACTING PLAY. The plays will be carefully
+and judiciously selected, offering what may be made use of, with a
+little tact in adaptation, as a very Pleasing and Instructive PARLOR
+ENTERTAINMENT.</p>
+
+<p class='c021'>Improvements in AGRICULTURE, GARDENING, the Rearing of
+Domestic Poultry, etc., will be drawn from all reliable sources.</p>
+
+<p class='c021'>This Journal will aim at instructive “HINTS for HOME LIFE,”
+addressed to the Ladies, on Health and Diet, Household Affairs, a
+Mother’s Cares, Personal Accomplishments, etc. PATTERNS for useful
+NEEDLEWORK, and HINTS on the ART of DRESS will be accompanied
+by a description of a choice of the FASHIONS, with illustrations.</p>
+
+<p class='c021'>SPORTS of the SEASON, illustrated, suited to Children and Young
+People, in doors and out of doors; and such matters as have a happy
+influence on their health and intelligence.</p>
+
+<p class='c021'>Comicalities, Humorous Sayings, Anecdotes, and “Good Things,”
+will lighten the more solid matter.</p>
+
+<p class='c021'>TERMS:—Published Monthly, Price, 18³⁄₄ cts. each number; $1 per
+volume, or $2 per year. <span class='sc'>Price to Clubs</span>, four copies, $7; six copies,
+$10; 10 copies, $16, invariably in advance.</p>
+
+<div class='c022'>S. FRENCH, <span class='sc'>Publisher</span>, 122 Nassau St.,</div>
+
+<div>
+
+<p class='c021'><span style="float:left;text-indent:0">⁂  For sale at periodical depots, everywhere.</span> <span style="float:right;">(Up Stairs.)</span></p>
+<div class='clear'>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c002'>
+</div>
+<div>
+
+<p class='c023'></p>
+
+</div>
+<div class='transcribers-notes'>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+<div class='nf-center c018'>
+    <div><span class='xlarge'>Transcriber’s Notes</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c024'>New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain. Itemized changes from the original text:</p>
+  <ul  class='ul_1'>
+    <li><a href='#tn-smockfrock'>title page</a>: Added comma after “Phenomenon in a Smock-frock.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#dramatis'>Cast of Characters</a>: Expanded ditto marks from original for clarity.
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-water'>Cast of Characters</a>: Changed “wtaer” to “water” in description of Conrad.
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-headcook'>Cast of Characters</a>: Changed “Pead Cock” to “Head Cook” in description 
+    of Syng Smaul.
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-headcook'>Cast of Characters</a>: Changed comma to period after “Mr. Holmes” in entry 
+    for Syng Smaul.
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-mrscook'>Cast of Characters</a>: Changed comma to period after “Mrs. Cook” in entry 
+    for Zuliema.
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-ofthesea'>Cast of Characters</a>: Added closing parenthesis after “At the bottom of the sea.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-guards'>Cast of Characters</a>: Added comma after “Guards.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-smokers'>p. 4</a>: Replaced “Iv’e” with “I’ve” in line “Smokers, I’ve heard, have put 
+    their pipes out.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-serena'>p. 5</a>: Replaced “Serana” with “Serena” in stage direction “Serena is seen 
+    darting up towards the earth as the scene closes.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-itsdone'>p. 6</a>: Replaced “its” with “it’s” in line “If so, just give your orders 
+    and it’s done.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-ff1'>p. 7</a>: Replaced “Yussuff” with “Yussuf” before line “Now then, you tarnal 
+    critters” and in preceding stage direction.
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-slavebid'>p. 7</a>: Supplied missing period after character name “Pasha” before line 
+    “Slave, who bid you interfere?”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-withpleasure'>p. 8</a>: Supplied missing period after character name “Medora” before 
+    line “With pleasure, if it pleases you, I will.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-goodtrue'>p. 8</a>: Replaced period with comma in line “So good, so true.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-presentiment'>p. 8</a>: Supplied missing question mark after line “What strange 
+    presentiment of woe comes o’er me?”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-hewhim'>p. 9</a>: Supplied leading space before line “Guards, hew him limb from limb!”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-yussuf'>p. 9</a>: Replaced “Yessuf” with “Yussuf” in character name before line “Go 
+    at him—all at once.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-jerusalem'>p. 10</a>: Supplied missing opening bracket before stage direction “Exit, 
+    R., followed by the Girls.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-flytoo'>p. 10</a>: removed hyphen from “fly-too” in line “Nay, fly not yet, or else 
+    let me fly too.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-medorascarf'>p. 11</a>: Added small caps to “Medora” in stage direction “Throws scarf 
+    over <span class='sc'>Medora’s</span> head.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-hush'>p. 11</a>: Supplied leading space before line “Hush! don’t speak.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-helpcon'>p. 13</a>: Supplied leading space before line “Help! Conrad!” and expand 
+    leading space in following line.
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-throws'>p. 14</a>: Moved stage direction “Throws money amongst them” from before to 
+    after first line of speech.
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-likeabriton'>p. 15</a>: Replaced comma with period after phrase “Aye, and pay rates 
+    and taxes like a Briton.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-serenabracket'>p. 15</a>: Supplied missing opening bracket before stage direction 
+    “Serena sinks, R. C.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-spectacles'>p. 16</a>: Replaced “spectales” with “spectacles” in line “With 
+    spectacles you might—you won’t without!”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-runsout'>p. 18</a>: Supplied missing opening bracket before stage direction “Runs 
+    out, L.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-Birbanto'>p. 19</a>: Replaced “Birbbanto” with “Birbanto” in stage direction “Enter 
+    Birbanto, L.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-question'>p. 19</a>: Replaced “qustion” with “question” in line “Well, if you ask the 
+    question then—I have.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-villain'>p. 19</a>: Replaced “villian” with “villain” in line “Die, villain!”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-herhand'>p. 20</a>: Supplied leading space before line “And she consents? oh, no.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-idont'>p. 20</a>: Supplied missing period after line “I don’t.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-consenttosham'>p. 21</a>: Supplied leading space before lines “I will” and “And now 
+    consent to sham!”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-weeping'>p. 22</a>: Supplied missing opening bracket before stage direction “Weeping 
+    and joining their hands.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-asidetoher'>p. 22</a>: Supplied missing period after stage direction “[Aside to her.]”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-tisdone'>p. 23</a>: Supplied leading space before line “’Tis done, the marriage rites 
+    are ended!”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-myfright'>p. 23</a>: Removed exclamation point after line “Nay, my fright.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-aretheyloaded'>p. 23</a>: Removed duplicate character identification before line 
+    “Say, are they loaded?”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-trueillkeep'>p. 26</a>: Supplied leading space before line “True! I’ll keep them, 
+    love, with pleasure.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-kindfriends'>p. 27</a>: Replaced period with comma in line “Kind friends, in this 
+    great reform movement.”
+    </li>
+    <li><a href='#tn-proprietor'>advertisement</a>: Replaced “proprietod” with “proprietor” in line “the 
+    proprietor presents a most agreeable feature.”
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+
+</div>
+
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76960 ***</div>
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