E-text prepared by Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/originalplays00gilb2 This book was published by the British publisher Chatto & Windus as the second volume of Gilbert's plays. Project Gutenberg has an American publication with the same plays as the first volume of the Chatto & Windus series. It can be seen at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59057 Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). ORIGIINAL PLAYS * * * * * * UNIFORM WITH THE PRESENT VOLUME. _Post 8vo, cloth limp, 2s. 6d. each._ ORIGINAL PLAYS BY W. S. GILBERT. FIRST AND SECOND SERIES. The FIRST SERIES contains: The Wicked World--Pygmalion and Galatea--Charity--The Princess--The Palace of Truth--Trial by Jury. The SECOND SERIES contains: Broken Hearts--Engaged--Sweethearts--Gretchen--Dan’l Druce--Tom Cobb-- H.M.S. ‘Pinafore’--The Sorcerer--The Pirates of Penzance. _Royal 16mo, Japanese leather, 2s. 6d._ THE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN BIRTHDAY BOOK: QUOTATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR Selected from Plays by W. S. GILBERT, set to Music by SIR A. SULLIVAN. COMPILED BY ALEX. WATSON. LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS, 111 ST. MARTIN’S LANE, W.C. * * * * * * ORIGINAL PLAYS by W. S. GILBERT SECOND SERIES Containing Broken Hearts, Engaged, Sweethearts, Dan’L Druce, Gretchen, Tom Cobb, The Sorcerer, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance London Chatto & Windus 1899 CONTENTS. PAGE CONTENTS. BROKEN HEARTS. 1 ENGAGED. 39 SWEETHEARTS. 87 DAN’L DRUCE, BLACKSMITH. 109 GRETCHEN. 151 TOM COBB; OR, FORTUNE’S TOY. 203 THE SORCERER. 239 H.M.S. PINAFORE; OR, THE LASS THAT LOVED A SAILOR. 271 THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE; OR, THE SLAVE OF DUTY. 303 CHATTO & WINDUS CATALOGUE 1 BROKEN HEARTS. _AN ENTIRELY ORIGINAL FAIRY PLAY_, IN THREE ACTS. _First produced at the Royal Court Theatre, under the management of_ MR. HARE, _Thursday, 9th December, 1875_. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.