sum
That sits on a tree,
But when you come across 'em,
They cannot compare
With those who are treading
The dance at a wedding,
While people are spreading
The best of good fare!

SOLO--ROBIN.

Oh, wretched the debtor
Who's signing a deed!
And wretched the letter
That no one can read!
But very much better
Their lot it must be
Than that of the person
I'm making this verse on,
Whose head there's a curse on--
Alluding to me!

Repeat ensemble with Chorus.

(Dance)

(At the end of the dance Robin falls senseless on the stage.
Picture.)

END OF ACT I

ACT II

Scene.--Picture Gallery in Ruddigore Castle. The walls are
covered with full-length portraits of the Baronets of
Ruddigore from the time of James I.--the first being that of
Sir Rupert, alluded to in the legend; the last, that of the
last deceased Baronet, Sir Roderic.

Enter Robin and Adam melodramatically. They are greatly altered
in appearance, Robin wearing the haggard aspect of a guilty
roue; Adam, that of the wicked steward to such a man.

DUET--ROBIN and ADAM.

ROB. I once was as meek as a new-born lamb,
I'm now Sir Murgatroyd--ha! ha!
With greater precision
(Without the elision),
Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd--ha! ha!

ADAM. And I, who was once his valley-de-sham,
As steward I'm now employed--ha! ha!
The dickens may take him--
I'll never forsake him!
As steward I'm now employed--ha! ha!

ADDITIONAL SONG
(Omitted after opening night.)

ROB. My face is the index to my mind,
All venom and spleen and gall--ha! ha!
Or, properly speaking,
It soon will