from "Patience"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by William Schwenck Gilbert
1881
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'Yes, that's how seemed to me. Rather like one of the lovesick maidens in Patience.'
'Eh?'
'Patience. Gilbert and Sullivan. Haven't you ever seen it?'
'Oh yes, now I recollect. My Aunt Agatha made me take her son Thos to it once. Not at all a bad little show, I thought, though a bit highbrow. [...]'
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