The fortunes of Prince Camaralzaman have been pictured on the burlesque stage by the Brothers Brough, by Messrs. Bellingham and Best, by H. J. Byron, and by Mr. Burnand.[29] "Camaralzaman and Badoura, or the Peri who loved the Prince," was the Broughs' title, and they had the assistance of Mrs. Keeley, of Keeley (as a Djinn), of Bland (as the Emperor Bung), of Miss Reynolds (as Badoura), and of Miss Horton (as the hero). Dimpl Tshin was the name given to one of the characters, and Skilopht that of another. The original story was followed in the main. Camaralzaman declines to marry at his father's request, and is incarcerated. In that position he soliloquises:-- [29] In the years 1848, 1865, 1871 and 1884 respectively. 'Tis now the very witching time of night, Which, were I free, would bring with it delight; Now could I drink hot grog, hear comic songs, Or join the gay Casino's gladsome throngs, Or drain, 'midst buzzing sounds of mirth and chaff, The foaming stout, or genial half-and-half; But here a prisoner condemned to stop, I can indulge in neither malt nor "hop." O, cruel Pa! to place me in this state, Because I would avoid your own sad fate. Dear mother, though a model of a wife, Gave me a slight distaste for married life. Better be thus than free, and have to stand "An eye like Ma's, to threaten and command." Camaralzaman then breaks out into the following little bit of vocal parody:-- The Pope he leads a happy life, Because he hasn't got a wife; And one to take he's not so flat, He knows a trick worth two of that. No shrill abuse his ear affrights For stopping out too late at nights; No curtain lectures damp his hopes: A happy lot must be the Pope's. The Broughs were always ingenious in their word-plays. Says one of the characters in this burlesque:-- Soon, I feel, with passion and disgust, Within this _bosom_ there will be a _bust_. Again:-- I wonder how he'd look with a moustache; He's got none yet, though, thanks to sorrow's growth, He feels a little _down about the mouth_. Says Badoura to a suitor whom she does not favour:-- I may be handsome, but I'll now be plain; So, I'll not have you, sir--you kneel in vain; to which he replies:-- Can one so fair thus speak to her adorer? Your form a _Venus_, but your words a _Floorer_. In the piece by Messrs. Bellingham and Best--"Prince Camaralzaman, or the Fairies' Revenge"[30]--we find, amid many well-conceived and well-executed puns, a rather successful adaptation of the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, possessing the merit of being quite in keeping with the character of the matrimony-scorning Camaralzaman:--