ruddigore 36 family portraits

Baronet of Ruddigore,
Last of our accursËd line,
Down upon the oaken floor ñ
Down upon those knees of thine.

Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer,
Blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer,
Shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper,
Sniffler, snuffler, wailer, weeper,
Earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil!
Set upon thy course of evil,
Lest the King of Spectre-Land
Set on thee his grisly hand!

(The spectre of SIR RODERIC descends from his frame.)

SIR ROD.Beware! beware! beware!
ROB.Gaunt vision, who art thou
That thus, with icy glare
And stern relentless brow,
Appearest, who knows how?

SIR ROD.I am the spectre of the late
Sir Roderic Murgatroyd,
Who comes to warn thee that thy fate
Thou canst not now avoid.
ROB.Alas, poor ghost!
SIR ROD.The pity you
Express for nothing goes:
We spectres are a jollier crew
Than you, perhaps, suppose!
CHORUS.We spectres are a jollier crew
Than you, perhaps, suppose!

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