The Mikado Page #5

And what has Your Highness done? And will

Your Highness promise never to do it again?

Some years ago I had the misfortune

to captivate Katisha...

an elderly lady of my father's court.

My father ordered me to marry her

within a week or perish on a scaffold.

That night I fled his court and, assuming

the disguise of a second trombone...

I joined the band in

which you found me.

# Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted #

# I would say in tender tone #

# Loved one, let us be united #

# Let us be each other's own #

# I would merge all rank and station #

# Worldly sneers are naught to us #

# And to mark my admiration #

# I would kiss you fondly thus #

- # I would kiss you fondly thus #

- # He would kiss me fondly thus #

# But as I'm engaged to Ko-Ko

To embrace you thus, con fuoco #

# Would distinctly be no gioco #

# And for yam I should get toco #

# So, in spite of all temptation #

# Such a theme I'll not discuss #

# And on no consideration #

# Will I kiss you #

# Fondly thus #

# Will I kiss you #

# Fondly thus #

# Let me make it clear to you #

# This is what I'll never do #

# This, oh, this #

# Oh, this

Oh, this #

# This is what I'll never, never do #

# This, oh, this

Oh, this, oh, this #

# This #

- # Is what I'll never do #

- # You'll never do #

- # I'll never do #

- # You'll never do #

# Oh, this #

# This #

# Is what I'll never #

# Never do ##

I am the bearer of a letter

from His Majesty, the Mikado.

A letter from the Mikado?

What in the world

can he have to say to me?

Ah, here it is at last.

I thought it would come

sooner or late - later.

The Mikado is struck by the fact...

that no executions have taken

place in Titipu for a year.

And he decrees that unless someone

is beheaded within one month...

the post of Lord High Executioner

shall be abolished!

And the city reduced

to the rank of a village!

There's no help for it.

I shall have to execute

somebody at once.

The only question is,

who shall it be?

Well, it seems unkind to say so...

but as you're already under

sentence of death for flirting...

everything seems to point to you.

To - To me? Wh-What are you talking

about? I can't execute myself.

Why not?

I don't see how a man can

cut off his own head.

A man might try.

If he only succeeded

in cutting it half off -

that would be something.

No. Pardon me, but

there I am adamant.

I am afraid that unless

you can obtain a substitute -

A substitute?

Nothing easier.

Pooh-Bah, I appoint you

lord high substitute.

I should be delighted.

Such an appointment would

realize my fondest dreams!

But, no, at any sacrifice...

I must set bounds

to my insatiable ambition.

# I am so proud

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