Original Plays, Second Series

by W. S. Gilbert

Your silent matches, your dark lantern seize,

Take your file and your skeletonic keys.

All (fortissimo).With cat-like tread, etc.

Recitative.

Fred.Hush, not a word. I see a light inside.

The Major-General comes, so quickly hide.

Gen. (without).

Yes, yes, the Major-General comes.

Pir.He comes.

Gen. (entering in dressing-gown, carrying a light).