Act I

Bunthorne’s gardens

Twenty love-sick maidens we

Maidens, Angela and Ella

Still brooding on their mad infatuation

Patience, Saphir, Angela and Maidens

I cannot tell what this love may be

Patience

Twenty love-sick maidens we

Maidens

The soldiers of our Queen

Dragoons and Colonel

In a doleful train
(It is finished)

Maidens, Ella, Angela, Saphir, Dragoons and Bunthorne

Twenty love-sick maidens we

Maidens

When I first put this uniform on

Colonel and Dragoons

Am I alone and unobserved

Bunthorne

Long years ago, fourteen maybe

Patience and Angela

Prithee, pretty maiden

Patience and Grosvenor

Though to marry you would very selfish be

Patience and Grosvenor

Let the merry cymbols sound

Ensemble