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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 01. Introduction. If poverty be a title to poetry (Beggar/Player)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 02. Dialogue. Overture
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 03. Air 1 'an old woman clothed in gray'. Through all the employments of life (Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 04. Dialogue. Sir, Black Moll hath sent word (Filch/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 05. Air 2 'the bonny gray-ey'd morn' (Clarke). 'Tis woman that seduces all mankind (Filch/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 06. Dialogue. But 'tis now high time to look about me (Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 07. Dialogue. What of Bob Booty, husband? (Mrs Peachum/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 08. Air 3 'Cold and raw'. If any wench Venus's girdle wear (Mrs Peachum/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 09. Air 4 'Why is your faithful slave disdain'd?' (attrib. Bononcini). If love the virgin's heart invade (Mrs Peachum/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 10. Dialogue. Never was a man more out the way in an argument (Mrs Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 12. Dialogue. Come hither, Filch (Mrs Peachum/Filch)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 13. Dialogue. I know as well as any of the fine ladies (Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 14. Air 6 'What shall I do to show how much I love her?' (Purcell). Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre (Polly/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 15. Air 7 'Oh London is a fine town'. Our Poly is a sad slut! (Mrs Peachum/Peachum/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 16. Air 8 'Grim king of the ghosts'. Can love be control'd by advice? (Polly/Mrs Peachum/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 17. Air 9 'O Jenny, O Jenny, where hast thou been?'. O Polly, you might have toy'd and kissed (Mrs Peachum/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 18. Air 10 'Thomas, I cannot'. I like a ship in storms was tossed (Polly/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 19. Dialogue. Dear wife, be a little pacified (Peachum/Mrs Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 20. Air 11 'a soldier and a sailor' (Eccles). A fox may steal your hens, sir (Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 21. Dialogue. 'Twas only Nimming Ned (Polly/Peachum/Mrs Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 22. Air 12 'Now ponder well, ye parents dear'. Oh, ponder well! be not severe (Polly/Mrs Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 23. Air 13 'Le printemps rappelle aux armes'. The turtle thus with plaintive crying (Polly/Mrs Peachum/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 24. Dialogue. The thing, husband, must and shall be done (Mrs Peachum/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 25. Dialogue. Now I'm a wretch (Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 26. Air 14 'Pretty parrot, say' (Freeman). Pretty Polly, say (Macheath/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 27. Air 15 'Pray, fair one, be kind' (Leveridge). My heart was so free (Macheath/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 28. Air 16 'Over the hills and far away'. Were I laid on Greenland's coast (Macheath/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 29. Air 17 'Gin thou wert mine awn thing'. O what pain it is to part! (Polly/Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 1 No 30. Air 18 'O the broom'. The miser thus a shilling sees (Macheath/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 01. Dialogue. But pr'ythee, Matt, what is become of thy brother Tom? (Ben/Matt/Jemmy/Jack/Wat/Robin/Ned/Harry)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 02. Air 19 'Fill ev'ry glass'. Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us (Matt/company)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 03. Dialogue. Gentlemen, well met (Macheath/Matt)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 04. Air 20 'March in Rinaldo' (Handel). Let us take the road (Matt)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 05. Dialogue. What a fool is a fond wench! (Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 06. Air 21 'Would you have a young virgin?'. If the heart of a man is deprest with cares (Macheath/Drawer)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 07. Dialogue. Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome (Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 08. Air 22 'Cotillon'. Youth's the season made for joys (Macheath/Jenny/Coaxer/Vixen/Brazen)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 09. Air 23 'All in a misty morning'. Before the barn door crowing (Jenny/Macheath/Trull/Tawdry/Slammekin/Vixen)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 10. Air 24 'When once I lay with another man's wife'. The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike (Jenny/Tawdry/Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 11. Dialogue. I seize you, sir, as my prisoner (Peachum/Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 12. Air 25 'When first I laid siege to my Chloris'. At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure (Macheath/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 13. Dialogue. Look ye, Mrs Jenny (Vixen/Coaxer/Slammekin/Trull/Jenny)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 14. Dialogue. Noble Captain, you are welcome (Lockit/Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 16. Dialogue. You base man, you! (Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 17. Air 27 'a lovely lass to a friar came'. Thus when a good huswife sees a rat (Luch/Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 18. Air 28 ''Twas when the sea was roaring' (Handel). How cruel are the traitors (Lucy/Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 19. Air 29 'the sun had loos'd his weary teams'. The first time at the looking-glass (Macheath/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 20. Dialogue. In this last affair, brother Peachum (Lockit/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 21. Air 30 'How happy are we' (Barrett). When you censure the age (Lockit/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 22. Dialogue. Whence come you, hussy? (Lockit/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 23. Air 31 'of a noble race was Shenkin'. Is then his fate decreed, sir? (Lucy/Lockit)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 24. Air 32. You'll think e'er many days ensue (Lockit)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 25. Dialogue. Though the ordinary was out of the way today (Lucy/Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 26. Air 33 'London ladies'. If you at an office solicit your due (Macheath/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 27. Dialogue. Where is my dear husband? (Polly/Macheath/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 28. Air 34 'All in the Downs' (Sandoni). Thus when the swallow, seeking prey (Polly/Macheath/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 29. Air 35 'Have you heard of a frolicksome ditty?'. How happy could I be with either (Macheath/Polly/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 30. Air 36 'Irish trot'. I'm bubbled (Polly/Lucy/Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 31. Air 37. Cease your funning (Polly/Macheath/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 32. Air 38 'Good-morrow, gossip'. Why how now, Madam Flirt? (Lucy/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 33. Dialogue. Where's my wench? (Peachum/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 34. Air 39 'Irish howl' (Vanbrughe). No power on earth can e'er divide (Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 35. Dialogue. I am naturally compassionate, wife (Macheath/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 2 No 36. Air 40 'the lass of Patie's Mill'. I like the fox shall grieve (Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 01. Dialogue. To be sure, wench (Lockit/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 02. Air 41 'If love's a sweet passion' (Purcell). When young at the bar you first taught me to score (Lucy/Lockit)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 04. Dialogue. Peachum then intends to outwit me (Lockit)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 05. Air 43 'Packington's pound'. Thus gamesters united in friendship are found (Lockit/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 06. Dialogue. Why, boy, thou lookest as if thou wert half starv'd (Lockit/Filch)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 07. Dialogue. I am sorry, gentlemen (Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 08. Air 44 'Lillibulero' (attrib. Purcell). The modes of the court so common are grown (Macheath/Ben/Matt)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 09. Dialogue. The coronation account, brother Peachum (Lockit/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 10. Air 45 'Down in the north country'. What gudgeons are we men! (Lockit/Peachum/Servant)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 11. Dialogue. Dear Mrs Dye, your servant (Peachum/Trapes/Lockit)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 12. Air 46 'a shepherd kept sheep'. In the days of my youth I could bill like a dove (Trapes/Peachum/Lockit)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 13. Dialogue. Jealousy, rage, love and fear (Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 14. Air 47 'One evening, having lost my way'. I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed (Lucy/Filch)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 15. Dialogue. Dear madam, your servant (Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 16. Air 48 'Now Roger, I'll tell thee, because thou'rt my son'. When a wife's in her pout (Lucy/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 17. Air 49 'O Bessy Bell'. A curse attends that woman's love (Polly/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 18. Air 50 'Would fate to me Belinda give' (Wilford). Among the men, coquets we find (Polly/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 19. Air 51 'Come, sweet lass'. Come, sweet lass (Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 20. Dialogue. All this wheedling of Lucy cannot be for nothing (Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 21. Dialogue. Come, Miss Polly (Lucy/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 22. Dialogue. Set your heart to rest, captain (Lockit/Peachum/Lucy/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 23. Air 52 'the last time I went o'er the moor'. Hither, dear husband, turn your eyes (Polly/Lucy/Macheath/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 24. Air 53 'Tom Tinker's my true love'. Which way shall I turn me? (Macheath/Polly)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 25. Air 54 'I am a poor shepherd undone'. When my hero in court appears (Polly/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 26. Air 55 'Ianthe the lovely' (Barrett). When he holds up his hand (Lucy/Lockit)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 27. Air 56 'a cobbler there was' (attrib. Leveridge). Our selves, like the great, to secure a retreat (Lockit/Peachum)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 28. Air 57 'Bonny Dundee'. The charge is prepar'd; the lawyers are met (Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 29. Dialogue. Follow them, Filch, to the court (Polly/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 30. Air 58 to 66. O cruel, cruel, cruel case! (Macheath)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 31. Air 67 'Green sleeves'. Since laws were made for ev'ry degree (Macheath/Jailer)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 32. Dialogue. For my having broke prison (Macheath/Matt/Jailer)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 33. Dialogue. My dear Lucy, my dear Polly (Macheath/Polly/Lucy)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 34. Air 68 'All you that must take a leap' (Ramondon). Would I might be hang'd! (Lucy/Polly/Macheath/Jailer)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 35. Dialogue. But, honest friend (Player/Beggar)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 36. Dialogue. So, it seems, I am not left to my choice (Macheath/company)
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The Beggar's Opera: Act 3 No 37. Air 69 'Lumps of pudding'. Thus I stand like the Turk (Macheath)
