Oh, False One, You Have Deceived - The Pirates Of Penzance

FRED.

Oh, false one, you have deceived me!

RUTH.

I have deceived you?

FRED.

Yes, deceived me!

(Denouncing her.)

DUET FREDERIC and RUTH.

FRED.

You told me you were fair as gold!

RUTH.

(wildly) And, master, am I not so?

FRED.

And now I see you’re plain and old.

RUTH.

I’m sure I’m not a jot so.

FRED.

Upon my innocence you play.

RUTH.

I’m not the one to plot so.

FRED.

Your face is lined, your hair is grey.

RUTH.

It’s gradually got so.

FRED.

Faithless woman, to deceive me,

I who trusted so!

RUTH.

Master, master, do not leave me!

Hear me, ere you go!

My love without reflecting,

Oh, do not be rejecting!

Take a maiden tender her affection raw and green,

At very highest rating,

Has been accumulating

Summers seventeen?

summers seventeen.

ENSEMBLE.

RUTH.

FRED.

Don’t, beloved master,

Yes, your former master

Crush me with disaster.

Saves you from disaster.

What is such a dower to theYour love would be uncomfortably

dower I have here?

fervid, it is clear

My love unabating If, as you are stating

Has been accumulating It’s been accumulating

Forty-seven year forty-seven year!

Forty-seven year forty-seven year!

RECIT.

FREDERIC.

What shall I do?

Before these gentle maidens

I dare not show in this alarming costume!

No, no, I must remain in close concealment

Until I can appear in decent clothing!