Next in my series of Lizzie Operas: Dido & Aeneas

This Opera is in English, but it is very Old English, so I'm borrowing my friend Tracy's ghettoized version of it.

Dido is Queen of Carthage, and her Prince Aeneas, of Egypt has just come to tell her that he is leaving her to follow Jove's (Zeus's) orders. She turns to her Maid Belinda, for comfort.

Dido.........Kate Sanders Aeneas........Ethan Craft Belinda........Claire Miller _____________________________________________________________________

Kate is laying on a chaise, talking (singing) to Claire.

Kate: Your advice is worth nothing. I will complain to heaven and earth. Earth and Heaven are conspiring against me.

Claire: No, see...Prince Ethan approaches. He looks very sorry, and I believe he is true to you.

Ethan: I am lost, what shall I do? How will I tell this Royal woman that the gods decree that we must part.

Kate: On the fatal banks of Nile, weeps Ethan, the deceitful crocodile. You are a hypocrite, and you leave be your choice, don't blame the gods.

Ethan: Just say the word, and I'll stay, offend the gods, and obey love.

Kate: No, faithless man, pursue your course, I'm now resolved to die. Nothing you can say, no apology can change my mind. For it's enough, whatever you now decree, that once you thought of leaving me.

Ethan: By all that's good-

Kate: By all that's good, no more. You swore off everything good. Go to your promised empire, and let me die.

Ethan: Let the gods say what they will, I'll stay

Kate: Away, away

Ethan: No, no I'll stay

Kate: Away, away

Ethan: I'll stay

Kate: No, no, away, away (she turns her back and he leaves, defeated) I cannot shun death. Death will come, now that he is gone.

***Kate's Lament***

Kate: Thy hand, Claire, shade me in darkness. Let me rest on your chest. I would do more, but death invades me. Death is now a welcome guest.

When I am laid in Earth, may my wrongs create no trouble. Remember me, but forget my fate.

(It grows dark. Kate dies and cupids surround her grave. She has died of a broken heart).

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A/N: Ok, not as silly as the rest, but still kind of funny in a morbid way.