The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 84
Enter Lazarillo and Boatman
Enter Lazarillo and Boatman.
Boa
Laz
Don C
Laz
Don C
Laz
Don C
Laz
Don C
Don J
Enter Captain and Soldiers.
Cap Don C Cap Laz
Noble captain, brave sir, hear me,
Slay thy rage or learn to fear me.
Don C Cap Don C Cap Don C Laz
If a mere child's poor entreaty,
Fail to move that heart of thine;
If his voice excite not pity
Brother soldier, list to mine.
Prayers and tears won't make me civil.
Him I'd soon send to the devil.
Gallant captain,
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Cap Don C Cap Laz Don C Cap Don C
Pity and forgiveness pray;
Ne'er again will I be rash,
Pity and withhold the lash.
Count de Garofa,
Don Cæsar de Bezan,
Who in the presence of his monarch,
Covered, has a right to appear,
You have insulted me beyond all bearing
Redress I seek.
Hence to the devil with the holy week,
Thus I chastise thy daring,
Ensemble.
Cap Laz Don J Cho
Oh, you soon shall bite the dust,
Honour's debt is quickly staid;
Oh that by cut and thrust,
Dunning creditors were paid.
Braggart whom this blade hath staid,
Only with a single thrust,
Your account is quickly paid.
Be this frightful quarrel staid,
If for me your life were lost,
Evermore would grief upbraid.
Holy-week would dare invade,
Be this quarrel e'er so just,
By the halter will be paid.
Blow for blow and blade to blade,
Happy the man who falls the first,
Conquest by the hangman paid.
Don J