try under
The Joint Stock Company's Act of Sixty-Two.

All: Ulahlica!

SOLO -- King

Henceforward, of a verity,
With Fame ourselves we link--
We'll go down to Posterity
Of sovereigns all the pink!

Sca., Phan., Tar.: (aside to King)
If you've the mad temerity
Our wishes thus to blink,
You'll go down to Posterity,
Much earlier than you think!

Tar.: (correcting them)

He'll go up to Posterity,
If I inflict the blow!

Sca., Phan.: (angrily)

He'll go down to Posterity--
We think we ought to know!

Tar.: (explaining) He'll go up to Posterity,
Blown up with dynamite!

Sca., Phan.: (apologetically)

He'll go up to Posterity,
Of course he will, you're right!

ENSEMBLE

King, Lady Sophy, Nek., Sca., Phan, and Tar Fitz. and
Zara (aside)
Kal., Calynx and Chorus (aside)

Henceforward of a verity, If he has the temerity Who love
with all sincerity;
With fame ourselves we Our wishes thus to blink Their
lives may safely link.
link--
And go down to Posterity, He'll go up to Posterity And as for
our posterity
Of sovereigns all pink! Much earlier than they We don't
care what they think!
think!

CHORUS

Let's seal this mercantile pact--
The step we ne'er shall rue--
It gives whatever we lacked--
The statement's strictly true.
All hail, astonishing Fact!
All hail, Invention new--
The Joint Stock Company's Act--
The Act of Sixty-Two!

END OF ACT I

ACT II

Scene -- Throne Room in the Palace. Night. Fitzbattleaxe
discovered,
singing to Zara.

RECITATIVE -- Fitzbattleaxe.

Oh, Zara, my beloved one, bear with me!
Ah, do not laugh at my attempted C!
Repent not, mocking maid, thy girlhood