'Quartette'

The Village Coquettes, An Operatic Burletta in Two Acts (1836). London: John Dicks. 

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Dickens, Charles. 'Quartette.' The Village Coquettes (1836): p.12. Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1836-The_Village_Coquettes_Quartette.

Squire. Hear me, when I swear that the farm is your own

Through all changes Fortune may make; 

The base charge of falsehood I never have known;

This promise I never will break.

Rose and Lucy. Hear him, when he swears that the farm is our own

Through all changes Fortune may make;

The base charge of falsehood he never has known;

This promise he never will break.

Enter YOUNG BENSON.

Young Benson. My sister here! Lucy! begone, I command. 

Squire. To your home I restore you again.

Young Benson. No boon I’ll accept from that treacherous hand

As the price of my fair sister’s fame.

Squire. To your home!

Young B. (To Lucy.) Hence away!

Lucy. Brother dear, I obey.

Squire. I restore.

Young B. Hence away!

Young B. Rose and Lucy. Let us leave.

Lucy. He swears it, dear brother.

Squire. I swear it.

Young B. Away!

Squire. I swear it.

Young B. You swear to deceive.

Squire. Hear me, when I swear that the farm is your own

Through all the changes Fortune may make.

Lucy and Rose. Hear him, when he swears that the farm is our own

Through all changes Fortune may make.

Young B. Hear him swear, hear him swear, that the farm is our own

Through all changes Fortune may make.

Squire. The base charge of falsehood I never have known,

This promise I never will break.

Lucy and Rose. The base charge of falsehood he never has known,

This promise he never will break.

Young B. The base charge of falsehood he often has known,

This promise he surely will break.