Frederick Reynolds [1819], The comedy of errors, In Five Acts. with alterations, additions, and with Songs, Duets, Glees, and Chorusses, selected entirely from the plays, poems, and sonnets of Shakspeare. Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. The Overture and new Music composed, and the Glees arranged, by Mr. Bishop. The selections from Dr. Arne, Sir J. Stevenson, Stevens, and Mozart (Printed by and for Sampson Low [etc.], London) [word count] [S35000].
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SCENE IV.
A River surrounded by Mountains, whose tops are covered with snow.—Across the River is a rustic Bridge.—Horns heard without—and Balthazar, Cerimon, and others, are seen crossing the Bridge dressed as Hunters.
Bal.
Here ends our chase: and though Antipholis
Declin'd our sport, has he in Ephesus
Known more?
Cer.
I warrant no, Balthazar.
Never did hounds send forth such gallant chiding!
The woods, the mountains, every region round
Re-echoed with their cry! Oh! who e'er heard
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Bal.
A sound more tuneable
Was never holla'd to, or cheer'd with horn.
Go, forester—lead the hounds home, and there
We'll crown the joys of this autumnal day,
With fireside pastime—Oh!—to court flies
Leave transient summer joys.
QUARTETTO AND CHORUS.
(Love's Labour's Lost.)
I
When icicles hang by the wall,
And Dick, the shepherd, blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs unto the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
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When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
To-who—
Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note,
While bonny Joan doth keel the pot.
II.
When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw!
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
To-who—
Tu whit, to-who, a merry note,
While bonny Joan doth keel the pot.
END OF THE THIRD ACT.
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Frederick Reynolds [1819], The comedy of errors, In Five Acts. with alterations, additions, and with Songs, Duets, Glees, and Chorusses, selected entirely from the plays, poems, and sonnets of Shakspeare. Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. The Overture and new Music composed, and the Glees arranged, by Mr. Bishop. The selections from Dr. Arne, Sir J. Stevenson, Stevens, and Mozart (Printed by and for Sampson Low [etc.], London) [word count] [S35000].
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