me here. Before that I was admired -- I may say, loved.

JANE Too mild -- adored!

BUN. Do let a poet soliloquize! The damozels used to follow me
wherever I went; now they all follow him!

JANE Not all! I am still faithful to you.

BUN. Yes, and a pretty damozel you are!

JANE No, not pretty. Massive. Cheer up! I will never leave
you, I swear it!

BUN. Oh, thank you! I know what it is; it's his confounded
mildness. They find me too highly spiced, if you please! And no
doubt I am highly spiced.

JANE Not for my taste!

BUN. [savagely] No, but I am for theirs. But I will show the
world I can be as mild as he. If they want insipidity, they
shall have it. I'll meet this fellow on his own ground and beat
him on it.

JANE You shall. And I will help you.

BUN. You will? Jane, there's a good deal of good in you, after
all!

No. 15. So go to him and say to him
(Duet)
Jane and Bunthorne

[Dance]

JANE So go to him and say to him, with compliment ironical--

BUNTHORNE Sing "Hey to you--
Good-day to you"--
And that's what I shall say!

JANE "Your style is much too sanctified -- your cut is too
canonical"--

BUNTHORNE Sing "Bah to you--
Ha! ha! to you"--
And that's what I shall say!

JANE "I was the beau ideal of the morbid young aesthetical--
To doubt my inspiration was regarded as heretical--
Until you cut me out with your placidity emetical."

BUNTHORNE Sing "Booh to you--
Pooh, pooh to you"--
And that's what I shall say!
Sing "Booh to you--
Pooh, pooh to you"--
And that's what I shall say!

JANE BUNTHORNE

Sing "Hey to you -- good-day to you"-- "Hey,
Sing "Bah to you -- ha! ha! to you"-- Good-day
Sing "Booh to you -- pooh, pooh to you"-- Bah.
And that's what you should say! ha! ha!

Sing "Hey to you -- good-day to you"-- "Booh,
Sing "Bah to you --ha! ha! to you"-- pooh-pooh
Sing "Booh to you"-- Bah.
And that's what you should say! And that's what I