Chis. Among the squires?

Don C. No; among the gipsies, blockhead!

Chis. I hope we may; for we are giving ourselves trouble enough on her account. Don’t you think so? However, there is no catching trout without wetting one’s trowsers. Yonder come the horses. [Exeunt.


Scene V.—The gipsy camp in the forest. Night. Gipsies working at a forge. Others playing cards by the fire light.

Gipsies at the forge sing.

On the top of a mountain I stand,

With a crown of red gold in my hand,

Wild Moors come trooping over the lea,

Oh how from their fury shall I flee, flee, flee?