The Pirates of Penzance

"FREDERIC: Yes, I have done my best for you. And why? It was my duty under my indentures, and I am the slave of duty."

"KING: Well, Frederic, if you conscientiously feel that it is your duty to destroy us, we cannot blame you for acting on that conviction. Always act in accordance with the dictates of your conscience, my boy, and chance the consequences."

"SAMUEL: But, hang it all! you wouldn't have us absolutely merciless?"

"SONG - PIRATE KING: Oh better far to live and die"

"KING: There are the remains of a good woman about Ruth."

"FREDERIC: Ruth, tell me candidly and without reserve: compared with other women, how are you?"

"FREDERIC: Oh, false one, you have deceived me!"

"SONG — FREDERIC: Oh, is there not one maiden breast"

"SONG- MABEL:"

"SONG — MAJOR-GENERAL: I am the very model of a modern Major-General"

"GENERAL: And now that I've introduced myself, I should like to have some idea of what's going on."

"GENERAL: But wait a bit. I object to pirates as sons-in-law."

"HYMN — KING & CHORUS"

"CHORUS: Oh, dry the glistening tear That dews that martial cheek; Thy loving children hear, In them thy comfort seek. With sympathetic care Their arms around thee creep, For oh, they cannot bear To see their father weep!"

"GENERAL: Why do I sit here? To escape from the pirates' clutches, I described myself as an orphan; and, heaven help me, I am no orphan! I come here to humble myself before the tombs of my ancestors, and to implore their pardon for having brought dishonour on the family escutcheon."

"SONG: Go, ye heroes, go to glory"

"FREDERIC: You don't mean to say you are going to hold me to that?"

"FREDERIC: Ought I to tell you? No, no, I cannot do it; and yet, as one of your band--"

"DUET - MABEL and FREDERIC: Stay, Fred'ric, stay!"

"MABEL: Sergeant, approach! Young Frederic was to have led you to death and glory."

"KING: With base deceit"

"SERGEANT: To gain a brief advantage you've contrived,"

"MABEL: Poor wandering ones!"