[Anhotep:]
Your Majesty! your Majesty!
I come to wed your daughter.
[Pharaoh:]
I'm glad of it, I'm glad of it,
I'm glad some rogue has caught her.
[Anhotep:]
My honours at her feet I cast,
I'll be her slave for ever.
[Pharaoh:]
I have no doubt she'll fetter you,
I have no doubt...
[Anhotep:]
Your Majesty! your Majesty!
no maiden e'er was sweeter.
[Pharaoh:]
You'll find a wife, you'll find a wife
grows better if you beat her.
[Anhotep:]
If you but grant this priceless gift,
her path shall be all roses.
[Pharaoh:]
I know that's what, I know that's what
each imbecile supposes.
[Anhotep:]
Your majesty! your Majesty!
my love had made me bold!
[Pharaoh:]
Youth's folly makes,
Youth's folly makes me thank the gods I'm old.
[Anhotep:]
And if it please you Majesty,
I fain would wed in haste.
[Pharaoh:]
I'd have you know, her mother, boy,
is forty round the waist.
[Anhotep:]
Your majesty! your Majesty!
you may retain her mother.
[Pharaoh:]
I only mean, I only mean
she'll grow just such another.
[Anhotep:]
Her soul and not her waist I wed
and it shall be my shrine.
[Pharaoh:]
That's all I ask, that's all I ask,
the contract you shall sign!