This is worse than your tricks with latch-keys and cigars!

Now, be off to the wars, nor on any pretences,

Show your face here again till you’ve come to your senses.”

So Malbrook se va-t-en guerre,

In a state of deep despair.

Then Yolenta’s papa thought he’d best take a part in it,

By performing the rôle of the tyrant and Martinet,

And proposed as a suitor,

An old co-adjutor

In many a dark deed, which no one but a brute or