. St. Nicholas book of plays & operettas . THE AGED SIRE IS WRATHFUL. Ill And now has come Lord Mortimer, A-suing for her hand jA richer nobleman than he Is not in all the land. Upon his lordly knees he sank, On bended knee he fell; And wilt thou not, fair Mary Jane, Within mv castle dwell? 10 ST. NICHOLAS PLAYS AND OPERETTAS Thou walkest now with weary feet,But thou shalt ride in state j And dine and sup, like any queen,Off my ancestral LORD MORTIMER. Right scornfully that angry maid Her dainty nose upturned !She waved her lily hand, and thus «/ His tempting offer spurned:

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