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 Enter Chorus of Bucks and Blades, heralded by Chorus of Bridesmaids

Welcome, gentry, For your entry Sets our tender hearts a-beating. Men of station, Admiration Prompts this unaffected greeting. Hearty greeting offer we!

Your exceeding Easy breeding— Just the thing our hearts to pillage— Cheers us, charms us, Quite disarms us, Welcome, welcome, to our village; To our village welcome be!

When thoroughly tired Of being admired By ladies of gentle degree—degree, With flattery sated, High-flown and inflated, Away from the city we flee—we flee!

From charms intramural To prettiness rural The sudden transition Is simply Elysian, So come, Amaryllis, Come, Chloe and Phyllis, Your slaves, for the moment, are we!

From charms intramural, etc.