Injury, and we shall lose some thousands ere this piece is o’er;
Such a name will surely ruin both your words and Arthur’s score;
Therefore change it, I implore.”
Then said Gilbert, calmly smoking, “D’Oyly Carte, you must be joking;
I have never found a title that I liked so much before,
For it gives the play the seeming of a drama that is teeming
With deeds of blood all streaming, which the people gloat so o’er;
Of those deeds all grim and ghastly that the people gloat so o’er;
Therefore be it Ruddygore,”
And with title so unfitting, people still are nightly sitting