 | 1920 - 120 pages
...kneeling first to MRS. PEACHUM R. and then TO PEACHUM L.) Polly 0 ponder wellI be not severe; So save a wretched wife! For on the rope that hangs my dear Depends poor Polly's life« (Repeat for Second Verse) Mrs. Peachum But your duty to your parents, hussy, obliges you to hang him.... | |
 | John Christopher Pepusch - Ballad operas - 1920 - 122 pages
...MRS. PEACHUM R. and then TO PEACHUM L.) Polly 0 ponder well! be not severe; So save a wretched wifeI For on the rope that hangs my dear Depends poor Polly's life, (Repeat for Second Verse) Mrs. Peachum But your duty to your parents, hussy, obliges you to hang him.... | |
 | Frank Kidson - Ballad opera - 1922 - 142 pages
...beautiful old ballad air belonging to The Children in the Wood. Oh ponder well, be not severe, So save a wretched wife; For on the rope that hangs my dear Depends poor Polly's life. It is said that the fate of the opera was undecided until this passage, but that the beautiful air,... | |
 | David Harrison Stevens - English drama - 1923 - 938 pages
...make give her. 58 [I — Now ponder well, ye parents dear -Y. Oh, ponder well! be not severe; So save OWNLEY. Believe me, madam, you . PEACHUM. But your duty to your 5, hussy, obliges you ' to hang him. would many a wife give for such... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - Authors - 1923 - 170 pages
...delightful Polly? Dr. JOHNSON. She was indeed, sir, in spite of the painful and ridiculous lines: " For on the rope that hangs my Dear Depends poor Polly's life" You doubtless best remember the lines sung by Macheath: " How happy could I be with either Were t'other... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1923 - 372 pages
...looks of Polly, when she came to those two lines, which exhibit at once a painful and ridiculous image, "For on the rope that hangs my Dear, Depends poor Polly's life." Quin himself had so bad an opinion of it that he refused the part of Captain Macheath, and gave it... | |
 | Sir Nigel Playfair - 1925 - 316 pages
...touchand-go which would happen until it came to Polly's song: Oh, ponder well, be not severe, So save a wretched wife; For on the rope that hangs my dear Depends poor Polly's life. but that that song brought the house down. It is an odd story, if true. That there has really been... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Devon - 1926 - 456 pages
...When Polly Peachum sang her pathetic appeal to her parents — O ponder well, be not severe To save a wretched wife, For on the rope that hangs my dear Depends poor Polly's life, and this, to the air of "The Babes in the Wood," familiar to the entire audience from their nurseries,... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Devon (England) - 1926 - 456 pages
...When Polly Peachum sang her pathetic appeal to her parents — O ponder well, be not severe To save a wretched wife, For on the rope that hangs my dear Depends poor Folly's life, and this, to the air of "The Babes in the Wood," familiar to the entire audience from... | |
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Oh, ponder well! be not severe; So save a wretched Wife ! For on the Rope that hangs my Dear Depends poor Polly's Life. 
