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y proffer-- Good your heart, and full your coffer; Yet I must decline your offer-- I'm engaged to So-and-so!" So-and-so! So-and-so! (flageolet solo) She's engaged to So-and-so! What a rogue young hearts to pillage; What a worker on Love's tillage! Every maiden in the village Is engage to So-and-so! So-and-so! So-and-so! (flageolet solo) All engaged to So-and-so! (At the end of the song Dr. Daly sees Aline, and, under the influence of the potion, falls in love with her.) ENSEMBLE--ALINE and DR. DALY. Oh, joyous boon! oh, mad delight; Oh, sun and moon! oh, day and night! Rejoice, rejoice with me! Proclaim our joy, ye birds above-- Yet brooklets, murmur forth our love, In choral ecstasy: ALINE. Oh, joyous boon! DR. D. Oh, mad delight! ALINE. Oh, sun and moon! DR. D. Oh, day and night! BOTH. Ye birds, and brooks, and fruitful trees, With choral joy, delight the breeze-- Rejoice, rejoice with me! Enter Alexis ALEXIS (with rapture). Aline my only love, my happiness! The philtre--you have tasted it? ALINE (with confusion). Yes! Yes! ALEXIS Oh, joy, mine, mine for ever, and for aye! (Embraces her.) ALINE Alexis, don't do that--you must not! (Dr. Daly interposes between them) ALEXIS (amazed). Why? DUET--ALINE and DR. DALY ALINE. Alas! that lovers thus should meet: Oh, pity, pity me! Oh, charge me not with cold deceit; Oh, pity, pity me! You bade me drink--with trembling awe I drank, and, by the potion's law, I loved the very first I saw! Oh, pity, pity, me! DR. D. My dear young friend, consoled be--
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