[MABEL]
All is prepared, your gallant crew await you
My Frederic in tears? It cannot be
That lion-heart quails at the coming conflict?
[FREDERIC]
No, Mabel, no.
A terrible disclosure
Has just been made.
Mabel, my dearly-loved one,
I bound myself to serve the pirate captain
Until I reached my one-and-twentieth birthday
[MABEL]
But you are twenty-one?
[FREDERIC]
I've just discovered
That I was born in leap-year, and that birthday
Will not be reached by me till nineteen-forty!
[MABEL]
Oh, horrible! catastrophe appalling!
[FREDERIC]
And so, farewell!
[MABEL]
No, no!
Ah, Frederic, hear me.
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