The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty),
Act I: Oh, false one, you have deceived me! (Frederic, Ruth)
Oh, false one, you have deceived me!

RUTH
I have deceived you?

FREDERIC
Yes, deceived me!
(Denouncing her.)

FREDERIC
You told me you were fair as gold!

RUTH (wildly)
And, master, am I not so?

FREDERIC
And now I see you're plain and old.

RUTH
I'm sure I'm not a jot so.

FREDERIC
Upon my innocence you play.

RUTH
I'm not the one to plot so.

FREDERIC
Your face is lined, your hair is grey.

RUTH
It's gradually got so.

FREDERIC
Faithless woman, to deceive me, I who trusted so!

RUTH
Master, master, do not leave me!
Hear me, ere you go!
Faithless woman
Master, master
Faithless woman
Master, master


My love without reflecting,
Oh, do not be rejecting!
Take a maiden tender,
her affection raw and green,
At very highest rating,
Has been accumulating
-Summers seventeen,
summers seventeen.
Don't, beloved master,
Crush me with disaster.
What is such a dower to the dower I have here?
My love unabating
Has been accumulating
forty-seven year-
forty-seven year!
                                          Faithless woman to deceive me, I
                                          who trusted so!
     RUTH                                 FREDERIC
Master, master, do not leave              Faithless woman to deceive me, I
me, hear me, ere I go!                    who trusted so!
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