from "The Grand Duke" or "The Statutory Duel", Act II
Composed by Arthur Sullivan
Written by William Schwenck Gilbert
1896
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Gilbert had the advantage of being a genius, but he had the additional advantage of writing for a public which permitted him to use his full vocabulary, and even to drop into foreign languages, even Latin and a little Greek when he felt like it. (I allude to that song in "The Grand Duke").
A Wodehouse Miscellany. On the Writing of Lyrics