Oh, my voice is sad and low, And with timid step I go-- For with load of love o’erladen I enquire of every maiden, “Will you wed me, little lady? Will you share my cottage shady?” Little lady answers, “No! Thank you for your kindly proffer-- Good your heart, and full your coffer; Yet I must decline your offer-- I’m engaged to So-and-so!” So-and-so! So-and-so! (_flageolet_). She’s engaged to So-and-so! What a rogue young hearts to pillage! What a worker on Love’s tillage! Every maiden in the village Is engaged to So-and-so! So-and-so! So-and-so! (_flageolet_). All engaged to So-and-so! [_At the end of the song DR. DALY sees ALINE, and, under the influence of the potion, falls in love with her._ ENSEMBLE.--ALINE AND DR. DALY. Oh, joyous boon! oh, mad delight! Oh, sun and moon! oh, day and night! Rejoice, rejoice with me! Proclaim our joy, ye birds above-- Ye brooklets, murmur forth our love, In choral ecstasy: _Ali._ Oh, joyous boon! _Dr. D._ Oh, mad delight! _Ali._ Oh, sun and moon! _Dr. D._ Oh, day and night! _Both._ Ye birds and brooks and fruitful trees, With choral joy delight the breeze-- Rejoice, rejoice with me! _Enter ALEXIS._ RECITATIVE. _Alex._ (_with rapture_). Aline, my only love, my happiness! The philtre--you have tasted it? _Ali._ (_with confusion_). Yes! Yes! _Alex._ Oh, joy, mine, mine for ever and for aye. [_Embraces her._ _Ali._ Alexis, don’t do that--you must not! [_Dr. Daly interposes between them._ _Alex._ (_amazed_.) Why? DUET.--ALINE AND DR. DALY. _Ali._ Alas! that lovers thus should meet: Oh, pity, pity me! Oh, charge me not with cold deceit; Oh, pity, pity me! You bade me drink--with trembling awe I drank, and, by the potion’s law, I loved the very first I saw! Oh, pity, pity me! _Dr. D._ My dear young friend, consolèd be-- We pity, pity you. In this I’m not an agent free-- We pity, pity you. Some most extraordinary spell O’er us has cast its magic fell-- The consequence I need not tell. We pity, pity you. ENSEMBLE.