(Enter Hilarion with Princess, Cyril with Psyche, Lady Blanche and ladies. Also "Daughters of the Plough" bearing luncheon.) CHORUS OF GIRLS & SOLOS (Blanche and Cyril) "Merrily Ring the Luncheon Bell" Chorus: Merrily ring the luncheon bell! Merrily ring the luncheon bell! Here in meadow of asphodel, Feast we body and mind as well, Merrily ring the luncheon 1st Sops: 2nd Sops: bell! - - - —- bell! Oh merrily Ring - - - —- ring the luncheon oh, —- bell, Oh ring, - - - —- merrily, merrily, merrily, Oh, —- merrily Chorus: Merrily ring the luncheon bell, the luncheon bell! Blanche: Hunger, I beg to state, Is highly indelicate. This is a fact profoundly true, So learn your appetites to subdue. All: Yes, yes, We'll learn our appetites to subdue! Cyril: Madam, your words so wise, Nobody should despise, Curs'd with appetite keen I am And I'll subdue it— And I'll subdue it— I'll subdue it with cold roast lamb! All: Yes — yes— We'll subdue it with cold roast lamb! Merrily ring the luncheon bell! Merrily ring the luncheon bell! Oh 1st Sops: ring! - - - —- 2nd Sophs: merrily, merrily, Oh, merrily, merrily Chorus: Merrily ring the luncheon bell, the luncheon bell! Princess: You say you know the court of Hildebrand? There is a Prince there — I forget his name — Hilarion: Hilarion? Princess: Exactly — is he well? Hilarion: If it be well to droop and pine and mope, To sigh "Oh, Ida! Ida!" all day long, "Ida! my love! my life! Oh, come to me!" If it be well, I say, to do all this, Then Prince Hilarion is very well. Princess: He breathes our name? Well, it's a common one! And is the booby comely?