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THE SORCERER.



ACT I.

Scene.—Garden of Sir Marmaduke 's Elizabethan Mansion. The entrance to mansion r. The end of a large marquee, l. 2 e., open, and showing portion of table covered with white cloth, on which are joints of meat, tea pots, cups, bread and butter, jam, etc. Across the back of the stage, a raised terrace with practicable steps c. A park in the background, with spire of church seen above the trees. Stools, r. c., l. c


Chorus of Peasntry

Ring forth, ye bells;
⁠With clarion sound
Forget your knells
⁠For joys abound.
Forget your notes
⁠Of mournful lay,
And from your throats
⁠Pour joy to-day.


For to-day young Alexis—young Alexis Pointdextre
⁠Is betrothed to Aline—to Aline Sangazure,
And that bride of his sex is—of his sex is to be next her,
⁠At the feast on the green—on the green, oh be sure!

Ring forth, ye bells, etc.

(At the end of chorus, exeunt the men into house, r.)

Enter Mrs. Parlet, l. 2 e., meeting Constance, her daughter, from r. u. e.

Recitative.

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Mrs. P. Constance, my daughter, why this strange depression ?

The village rings with seasonable joy, Because the young and amiable Alexis, Heir to the great Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre. Is plighted to Aline, the only daughter Of Annabella, Lady Sangazure. You, you alone are sad and out of spirits; What is the reason? Speak, my daughter, speak!

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