The Duenna: A Comic Opera

Produced by Delphine Lettau, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
DON FERDINAND Mr. Mattocks . DON JEROME Mr. Wilson . DON ANTONIO Mr. Dubellamy . DON CARLOS Mr. Leoni . ISAAC MENDOZA Mr. Quick . FATHER PAUL Mr. Mahon . FATHER FRANCIS Mr. Fox . FATHER AUGUSTINE Mr. Baker . LOPEZ Mr. Wewitzer . DONNA LOUISA Mrs. Mattocks . DONNA CLARA Mrs. Cargill . THE DUENNA Mrs. Green .
Masqueraders, Friars, Porter, Maid, and Servants.
Enter LOPEZ, with a dark lantern .
Enter DON ANTONIO, with MASQUERADERS and music .
SONG.— Don Ant .
Tell me, my lute, can thy soft strain So gently speak thy master's pain? So softly sing, so humbly sigh, That, though my sleeping love shall know Who sings—who sighs below, Her rosy slumbers shall not fly? Thus, may some vision whisper more Than ever I dare speak before.
I. Mas . Antonio, your mistress will never wake, while you sing so dolefully; love, like a cradled infant, is lulled by a sad melody.
Don Ant . I do not wish to disturb her rest.
I. Mas . The reason is, because you know she does not regard you enough to appear, if you awaked her.
The breath of morn bids hence the night, Unveil those beauteous eyes, my fair; For till the dawn of love is there, I feel no day, I own no light.