In no locality
Or principality
Is our mortality
It's sway above!

1st Sops: In no lo- Others:
cality Or princi- Its
pality Is our mor- sway
tality It's sway a- a-
bove! bove!

Princess & With scented Others:
Hilarion: showers Of fairest Its
flowers, The happy sway
hours will gaily a-
fly! bove!

All: In no locality
Or principality
Is our mortality
Above the sway of love!

Curtain

RUDDIGORE

or

The Witch's Curse

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

MORTALS

SIR RUTHVEN MURGATROYD (disguised as Robin Oakapple, a Young
Farmer)
RICHARD DAUNTLESS (his Foster-Brother, a Man-o'-war's man)
SIR DESPARD MURGATROYD, OF RUDDIGORE (a Wicked Baronet)
OLD ADAM GOODHEART (Robin's Faithful Servant)
ROSE MAYBUD (a Village Maiden)
MAD MARGARET
DAME HANNAH (Rose's Aunt)
ZORAH and RUTH (Professional Bridesmaids)

GHOSTS

SIR RUPERT MURGATROYD (the First Baronet)
SIR JASPER MURGATROYD (the Third Baronet)
SIR LIONEL MURGATROYD (the Sixth Baronet)
SIR CONRAD MURGATROYD (the Twelfth Baronet)
SIR DESMOND MURGATROYD (the Sixteenth Baronet)
SIR GILBERT MURGATROYD (the Eighteenth Baronet)
SIR MERVYN MURGATROYD (the Twentieth Baronet)
and
SIR RODERIC MURGATROYD (the Twenty-first Baronet)

Chorus of Officers, Ancestors, Professional Bridesmaids, and
Villagers

ACT I

The Fishing Village of Rederring, in Cornwall

ACT II

The Picture Gallery in Ruddigore Castle

TIME

Early in the 19th Century

ACT I

SCENE. The fishing village of Rederring (in Cornwall). Rose
Maybud's cottage is seen L.

Enter Chorus of Bridesmaids. They range themselves in front of
Rose's cottage.

CHORUS OF BRIDESMAIDS.

Fair is Rose as bright May-day;
Soft is Ro