THE SORCERER.
ACT I.
Scene.—Garden of Sir Marmaduke’s Elizabethan mansion. The end of a large marquee, open, and showing portion of table covered with white cloth, on which are joints of meat, teapots, cups, bread and butter, jam, etc. To the back a raised terrace with steps. A park in the background, with spire of church seen above the trees.
Chorus of Peasantry.
Ring forth, ye bells,
With clarion sound—
Forget your knells,
For joys abound.