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To go and sit on red hot coal
'Til you're completely flayed��
Or ask a kindly friend to crack
Your wretched bones upon the rack
Than love a heartless jade��
Than love a heartless jade。
The bird that breakfasts on your lip��
I would I had him in my grip��
He sippeth where I dare not sip��
I can't get over that。
The cat you fondle soft and sly��
He layeth where I dare not lie。
We're not on terms�察�that cat and I。
I do not like that cat。
It's much less painful on the whole
To go and sit on red hot coal
'Til you're completely flayed��
Or ask a kindly friend to crack
Your wretched bones upon the rack
Than love a heartless jade��
Than love a heartless jade。
Or ask a kindly friend to crack
Your wretched bones upon the rack
Than love a heartless jade。
��Exit WILFRED。 Enter people excitedly�察�followed by YEOMEN
of the Guard with SERGEANT MERYLL at rear。
No。 2。 Tower warders�察�Under orders
��Double Chorus��
CROWD and YEOMEN�察�with Solo 2ND YEOMEN
CROWD Tower warders��
Under orders��
Gallant pikemen�察�valiant sworders��
Brave in bearing��
Foemen scaring��
In their bygone days of daring��
Ne'er a stranger
There to danger
Each was o'er the world a ranger��
To the story
Of our glory
Each a bold�察�a bold contributory��
YEOMEN In the autumn of our life��
Here at rest in ample clover��
We rejoice in telling over
Our impetuous May and June。
In the evening of our day��
With the sun of life declining��
We recall without repining
All the heat of bygone noon��
We recall without repining
All the heat��
We recall�察�recall
All of bygone noon。
2ND YEOMAN This the autumn of our life��
This the evening of our day��
Weary we of battle strife��
Weary we of mortal fray。
But our year is not so spent��
And our days are not so faded��
But that we with one consent��
Were our loved land invaded��
Still would face a foreign foe��
As in days of long ago��
Still would face a foreign foe��
As in days of long ago��
As in days of long ago��
As in days of long ago。
YEOMEN Still would face a foreign foe��
As in days of long ago。
CROWD Tower warders��
Under orders��
Gallant pikemen�察�valiant sworders��
Brave in bearing�察�Foemen scaring��
In their bygone days of daring��
CROWD YEOMEN
Tower warders�察 �This the autumn of our life
Under orders�察 �
Gallant pikemen��
Valiant sworders
Brave in bearing�察 �This the evening of our day��
Foemen scaring��
In their bygone days of daring��
Ne'er a stranger Weary we of battle strife��
There to danger
Each was o'er the world a ranger��
To the story Weary we of mortal fray。
Of our glory
Each a bold��
A bold contributory。
To the story This the autumn of our life。
Of our glory
Each a bold contributory� �This the evening of our day��
Each a bold contributory� �This the evening of our day。
��Exit CROWD。 Manent YEOMEN。 Enter DAME CARRUTHERS。
DAME A good day to you��
2ND
YEOMAN Good day�察�Dame Carruthers。 Busy to´day��
DAME Busy�察�aye� �the fire in the Beauchamp ��pronounced
Bee'cham�А�last night has given me work enough。 A dozen
poor prisoners Richard Colfax�察�Sir Martin Byfleet��
Colonel Fairfax�察�Warren the preacher´poet�察�and half´a´
score others all packed into one small cell�察�not six
feet square。 Poor Colonel Fairfax�察�who's to die to´
day�察�is to be removed to no。 14 in the Cold Harbour
that he may have his last hour alone with his
confessor�察�and I've to see to that。
2ND
YEOMAN Poor gentleman� �He'll die bravely。 I fought under him
two years since�察�and he valued his life as it were a
feather��
PHOEBE He's the bravest�察�the handsomest�察�and the best young
gentleman in England� �He twice saved my father's life��
and it's a cruel thing�察�a wicked thing�察�and a
barbarous thing that so gallant a hero should lose his
head for it's the handsomest head in England��
DAME For dealings with the devil。 Aye� �if all were beheaded
who dealt with him�察�there'd be busy things on Tower
Green。
PHOEBE You know very well that Colonel Fairfax is a student
of alchemy nothing more�察�and nothing less�察�but this
wicked Tower�察�like a cruel giant in a fairy´tale�察�must
be fed with blood�察�and that blood must be the best and
bravest in England�察�or it's not good enough for the
old Blunderbore。 Ugh��
DAME Silence�察�you silly girl�察�you know not what you say。 I
was born in the old keep�察�and I've grown grey in it��
and�察�please God�察�I shall die and be buried in it�察�and
there's not a stone in its walls that is not as dear
tome as my right hand。
No。 3。 When our gallant Norman foes
��SONG WITH CHORUS��
Dame Carruthers and Yeomen
DAME When our gallant Norman foes
Made our merry land their own��
And the Saxons from the Conqueror were flying��
At his bidding it arose��
In its panoply of stone��
A sentinel unliving and undying。
Insensible�察�I trow��
As a sentinel should be��
Though a queen to save her head should
come a´suing��
There's a legend on its brow
That is eloquent to me��
And it tells of duty done and duty doing。
The screw may twist and the rack may turn��
And men may bleed and men may burn��
O'er London town and its golden hoard
I keep my silent watch and ward��
CHORUS The screw may twist and the rack may turn��
O'er London town and all its hoard��
And men may bleed and men may burn��
O'er London town and all its hoard��
O'er London town and its golden hoard
I keep my silent watch and ward��
DAME Within its wall of rock
The flower of the brave
Have perished with a constancy unshaken。
From the dungeon to the block��
From the scaffold to the grave��
Is a journey many gallant hearts have taken。
And the wicked flames may hiss
Round the heroes who have fought
For conscience and for home in all its beauty��
But the grim old fortalice
Takes little heed of aught
That comes not in the measure of its duty。
The screw may twist and the rack may turn��
And men may bleed and men may burn��
O'er London town and its golden hoard
I keep my silent watch and ward��
CHORUS The screw may twist and the rack may turn��
O'er London town and all its hoard��
And men may bleed and men may burn��
O'er London town and all its hoard��
O'er London town and its golden hoard
I keep my silent watch and ward��
��Exeunt all but PHOEBE。 Enter SERGEANT MERYLL。
PHOEBE Father� �Has no reprieve arrived for the poor
gentleman��
MERYLL No�察�my lass�察�but there's one hope yet。 Thy brother
Leonard�察�who�察�as a reward for his valour in saving his
standard and cutting his way through fifty foes who
would have hanged him�察�has been appointed a Yeoman of
the Guard�察�will arrive to´day�察�and as he comes
straight from Windsor�察�where the Court is�察�it may be
it may be that he will bring the expected reprieve
with him。
PHOEBE Oh�察�that he may��
MERYLL Amen to that� �For the Colonel twice saved my life�察�and
I'd give the rest of my life to save his� �And wilt
thou not be glad to welcome thy brave brother�察�with
the fame of whose exploits all England is a´ringing��
PHOEBE Aye�察�truly�察�if he brings the reprieve。
MERYLL And not otherwise��
PHOEBE Well�察�he's a brave fellow indeed�察�and I love brave
men。
MERYLL All brave men��
PHOEBE Most of them�察�I verily believe� �But I hope Leonard
will not be too strict with me the