Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck

Captain Reece


• A feather bed had every man,Warm slippers and hot-water can,Brown windsor from the captain’s store,A...
• The sisters, cousins, aunts, and niece,And widowed ma of Captain Reece,Attended there as they were b...
Chorus, in Iolanthe


• Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!
  Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
Despard, in Ruddigore


• This particularly rapid, unintelligible patterIsn’t generally heard, and if it is it doesn’t matter!...
Duke of Plaza-Toro, in The Gondoliers


• In enterprise of martial kind,When there was any fighting,He led his regiment from behind—He found i...
• In enterprise of martial kind, When there was any fighting,He led his regiment from behind— He found...
• That celebrated,
  Cultivated
  Underrated
  Nobleman,
  The Duke of Plaza-Toro!
“Etiquette”


• Down went the owners—greedy men whom hope of gain allured:Oh, dry the starting tear, for they were h...
Etiquette


• They soon became like brothers from community of wrongs;They wrote each other little odes and sang e...
• And down in fathoms many went the captain and the crew;Down went the owners—greedy men whom hope of ...
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