GRACIOSA………………………Elinor Fry
Daughter of Balthazar Valori
GUIDO……………………Roderick Maybee
A jewel merchant
ALESSANDRO DE MEDICI………Francis F. Bierne
Duke of Florence
Produced under the direction of Louise Burleigh.
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THE JEWEL MERCHANTS
The play begins with the sound of a woman's voice singing a song (adapted from Rossetti's version) which is delivered to the accompaniment of a lute.
SONG:
Let me have dames and damsels richly clad
To feed and tend my mirth,
Singing by day and night to make me glad.
Let me have fruitful gardens of great girth
Filled with the strife of birds,
With water-springs and beasts that house i' the earth.