Mikado

Nanki-Poo:
Who says 24 hours make a day.

Pitti-Sing:
There's a popular impression to that effect.

Pooh-Bah:
To ask you what you mean to do we humbly appear.

Ko-Ko:
Congratulate me gentlemen, I've found a volunteer.

Yum-Yum:
True he loves me, but everybody does that.

Katisha:
Alone, and yet alive! Oh, sepulchre! My soul is still my body's prisoner! Remote the peace that Death alone can give - My doom, to wait! my punishment, to live! Hearts do not break! They sting and ache For old love's sake, But do not die, Though with each breath They long for death As witnesseth The living I! The living I! Oh, living I! Come, tell me why, When hope is gone, Dost thou stay on? Why linger here, Where all is drear? Oh, living I! Come, tell me why, When hope is gone, Dost thou stay on? May not a cheated maiden die? May not a cheated maiden die?

Yum-Yum:
Yes, I am indeed beautiful! Sometimes I sit and wonder, in my artless Japanese way, why it is that I am so much more attractive than anybody else in the whole world. Can this be vanity? No! Nature is lovely and rejoices in her loveliness. I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

Yum-Yum:
You see, burial alive, it's such a stuffy death!

Nanki-Poo:
Sir, I have the misfortune to love your ward, Yum-Yum. Oh, I know I deserve your anger!

Ko-Ko:
Anger! not a bit, my boy. Why, I love her myself. Charming little girl, isn't she? Pretty eyes, nice hair. Taking little thing, altogether. Very glad to hear my opinion backed by a competent authority. Thank you very much. Good-bye.

Ko-Ko:
Take him away.

Pooh-Bah:
I'm not in the habit of saying "How de do, little girls, how de do?" to anybody under the rank of a Stockbroker.