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[Transcriber's note: "The Romancers" is the basis for the plot of
the 1960 musical "The Fantasticks," with music by Harvey Schmidt,
book and lyrics by Tom Jones.]
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THE ROMANCERS
Persons in the Play
SYLVETTE
PERCINET
STRAFOREL
BERGAMIN (Percinet's father)
PASQUINOT (Sylvette's father)
BLAISE (A gardener)
A WALL (Not a speaking part)
Swordsmen, musicians, negroes, torch-bearers, a notary, four
witnesses, and other supernumeraries.
The action takes place anywhere, provided the costumes are pretty.
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ACT I
SCENE: The stage is divided by an old wall, covered with vines
and flowers. At the right, a corner of BERGAMIN's private park;
at the left, a corner of PASQUINOT's. On each side of the wall,
and against it, is a rustic bench.
As the curtain rises, PERCINET is seated on the top of the wall.
On his knee is a book, out of which he is reading to SYLVETTE,
who stands attentively listening on the bench which is on the other
side of the wall.
SYLVETTE. Monsieur Percinet, how divinely beautiful!
PERCINET. Is it not? Listen to what Romeo answers: [Reading]
"It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.
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