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# Taken from the county jail
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# By a set of curious chances
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# Surely never had a male
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# So adventurous a tale
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"The Mikado, or the town of Titipu."
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"Act One."
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"Scene: Courtyard of
Ko-Ko's palace in Titipu."
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"Japanese nobles discovered
standing and sitting...
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...in attitudes suggested
by native drawings."
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"Chorus: 'If you want to know who we are
We're gentlemen of Japan.'"
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"'On many a vase and jar,
on many a screen and fan
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we figure in lively paint,
our attitudes queer and quaint.'"
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"'You're wrong if you think it ain't.'"
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"'If you think we are worked by strings
like a Japanese marionette,
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you don't understand these things -
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it's simply Court etiquette.'"
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"'Perhaps you suppose this throng
can't keep it up all day long.'"
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"'If that's your idea, you're wrong.'"
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"Enter Nanki-Poo, in great excitement."
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"He carries a native guitar on his back
and a bundle of ballads in his hand."
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"Recitative, Nanki-Poo."
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"'Gentlemen, I pray you, tell me...
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...where a lovely maiden dwelleth
named Yum-Yum, the ward of Ko-Ko.'"
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"'In pity speak, oh, speak, I pray you.'"
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"'I hurried back at once
in the hope of finding Yum-Yum...
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...at liberty to listen to my protestations.'"
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"Pish-Tush: 'It is true that Ko-Ko
was condemned to death for flirting...
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...but he was reprieved
at the last moment...
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...and raised to the exalted rank
of Lord High Executioner...
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...under the following
remarkable circumstances.'"
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"Song, Pish-Tush."
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"'Our great Mikado, virtuous man,
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When he to rule our land began
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Resolved to try a plan whereby
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Young men might best be steadied.'"
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"'So he decreed in words succinct
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That all who flirted, leered or winked
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Unless connubially linked
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Should forthwith be beheaded.'"
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"'And I expect you'll all agree
That he was right to so decree.'"
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"'And I am right, and you are right,
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And all is right as right can be.'"