Lyrics The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Mistress Meryll!" - Jean Rigby feat. Bryn Terfel, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Mistress
Merril?
You
may
go
away
if
you
like
because
I
don't
want
you,
you
know
Haven't
you
anything
to
say
to
me?
Oh,
yes
Are
all
the
locks,
chains,
bolts
and
bars
in
good
order?
Is
little
E
sufficiently
uncomfortable?
The
racks,
pincers,
and
thumbscrews
all
ready
for
work?
I
didn't
become
a
head
jailer
because
I
liked
head-jailing
I
didn't
become
an
assistant
tormentor
Because
I
liked
assistant
tormenting
We
can't
all
be
sorcerers,
you
know
Colonel
Fairfax
is
not
a
sorcerer
He's
a
man
of
science
and
an
alchemist
Well,
whatever
he
is,
he
won't
be
one
for
long,
for
He's
to
be
beheaded
today
for
dealings
with
a
devil
You're
a
cruel
monster
to
speak
so
unfeelingly
Of
the
death
of
a
young
and
handsome
soldier
Young
and
handsome?
How
do
you
know
he's
young
and
handsome?
Because
I've
seen
him
every
day
for
weeks
past
Taking
his
exercise
on
the
beach
and
tower
Curse
him
There
I
believe
you're
jealous
of
him
now
Jealous
of
a
man
I've
never
spoken
to
Jealous
of
a
poor
soul
who's
to
die
in
an
hour
I
don't
believe
you
know
what
jealousy
is
Hmm,
you
are
a
heartless
jade
to
trifle
with
a
Delicate
organization
of
the
human
intellect
1 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "'Tis done! I am a bride!"
2 The Yeomen of the Guard / Act 1: "Oh, how I would love thee!" - "Where I thy bride"
3 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Well, Sergeant Meryll"
4 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Oh, Sergeant Meryll" - "Ye Tower Warders" - "Leonard Meryll!" - "Forbear, my friends" - "Didst thou not" - "Leonard!" - "As escort for the prisoner"
5 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Hark! What was that, sir?" - "Who fired that shot?" "Like a ghost his vigil keeping." - "The river must be dragged"
6 The Yeomen of the Guard / Act 2: "When a wooer goes a-wooing"
7 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "The deed is, so far, safely accompished"
8 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Well sung and well danced!"
9 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Night has spread her pall once more"
10 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Nay, sweetheart, be comforted"
11 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Strange adventure!"
12 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Now listen to me"
13 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Before I pretend to be a sister to anybody again"
14 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Rapture, rapture!"
15 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "So my mysterious bride"
16 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "And now, Sir Richard"
17 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "'Tis an odd freak"
18 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "But I trust you are very careful"
19 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Comes the pretty young bride" - "'Tis said to you" - "Hold, pretty one!"
20 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Two days gone"
21 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Free from his fetters grim"
22 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "The merry jests of Hugh Ambrose"
23 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "And so thou wouldst be a jester, eh?"
24 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Hereupon we're both agreed"
25 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "And so, good fellow" - "I've jibe and joke"
26 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Here's a man of jollity"
27 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "I have a song to sing, The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I
28 The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
29 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Mistress Meryll!"
30 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Tower warders under orders"
31 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "A good day to you!"
32 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "When our gallant Norman foes"
33 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Father! Has no reprieve arrived"
34 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Alas! I waver to and fro"
35 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Nay, lass, be of good cheer"
36 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Nay, pretty one" - "Is life a boon?"
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