CHAPERON
Yes, although I cannot stifle
My objections to a rifle,
Yet its merits sometimes strike me forcibly.
Chorus.
This was pronounced so clever, and was sung at rehearsal so prettily by Marguerite and the Amiable Burglar, that the librettists wrote another duet for the same voices:
CHAPERON, BURGLAR
(A Duet)
CHAPERON
Prithee, gentle Burglar, tell me, tell me true—