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Act III
| No. 11: Song (Bunthunder) | |
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SCENE — Dressing-room in MAJOR-GENERAL BUNTHUNDER'S house. Doors R.
and L. Large screen R., with double hinges to fold both away. The MAJOR-
GENERAL is discovered within the screen in full uniform, taking a footbath; a blanket
conceals his legs. His boots are on the floor L. of screen. A hot-water can stands near
them.
| Bunthunder. | ||
| Though called upon I've never been | ||
| To court a warrior's tomb, | ||
| Or to defend my Sovereign Queen | ||
| In battle's dread boom — boom! | ||
| Resistless I, when I am stirred | ||
| To doughty deeds of wrath, | ||
| So on myself I have conferr'd | ||
| The Order of the Bath! | ||
| You trace my humour's devious path? | ||
| You see my meaning through? | ||
| The knightly Order of the Bath — | ||
| (disappointed.) I don't believe you do! | ||
| Let me explain — you're in the dark — | ||
| The "Bath's" a high degree | ||
| Conferred on warriors of mark, | ||
| But not conferred on me. | ||
| From "Bath" we easily derive | ||
| This footbath — common delf — | ||
| And that's the compliment that I've | ||
| Conferred upon myself. | ||
| (explaining.) This bath — of crockery or delf — | ||
| A play on meanings twain. | ||
| (mortified.) I'm sorry; I forgot myself — | ||
| It sha'n't occur again! | ||
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