Puccini, Giactmo Madama Butterfly. Liteetto. English & Italian ...
Puccini, Giactmo Madama Butterfly. Liteetto. English & Italian ...
Puccini, Giactmo Madama Butterfly. Liteetto. English & Italian ...
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MADAM BUTTERFLY<br />
GORO<br />
(thanks with a deep bow)<br />
There will come: the official<br />
registrar,<br />
The relations, your country's Consul,<br />
Your future wife. Here you'll sign the contract,<br />
And solemnize the<br />
marriage.<br />
PiNKERTON<br />
Are there many relations ?<br />
GORO<br />
Her mother, grandam, and the Bonze, her uncle,<br />
(Who'll scarcely honour us with his appearance)<br />
Her cousins, male and female<br />
Of ancessors I reckon, and other blood relations,<br />
A mund two dozen.<br />
As to the descendants<br />
(with obsequious presumption)<br />
That may be left, I reckon,<br />
To your Honour and the fair <strong>Butterfly</strong><br />
(the voice of the Consul Sharpless, who is climbing the bin, is heard><br />
THE VOICE OF SHARPLESS<br />
(rather far off)<br />
A plague on this<br />
steep ascent !<br />
Stumbling, and spluttering<br />
GORO<br />
(who has run to the back, announces)<br />
Here comes the Consul.<br />
Ah !<br />
SHARPLESS<br />
(enters, quite out of breath. Ooro bo\v* low before him)<br />
the scramble up<br />
Has left me b<br />
PlNKERTON<br />
K'-ew 10 meet the Consul: they shake hands)<br />
Good-day, friend! Welcome!<br />
Ought<br />
SHARPLKSS
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