Sancho Panza in His Island: Comic Opera in One Act

SCENE II.

OH! Leave off your bows, I do not like so many manners; politeness is a traitress; let someone groom my gray horse? And let someone think about making me dine very quickly.

TRIO.

LOPE TOCHO.
Is it he? The droll appearance,
Ah, ah, ah, ah,
One cannot hold back.
Sir, you are so funny!
It is that one cannot hold back.
Ah! No anger,
For a trifle,
Do not get angry.
It is that try as one might,
One cannot hold back.

THERESE.
The fine figure!
Ah, ah, ah, ah,
My dear husband, how funny he is!
No, let him be.
Come here, you will see.
Do I not have two arms?

SANCHO.
It is my wife! Ah, what an adventure?
I did not expect her.
How! What does this mean?
What do you have to laugh about?
Why these outbursts?
But I believe she is mad.
There, Mister funny-man,
A lower tone.
Here, be quiet, Therese,
Or you will know,
You will feel,
What my arm
weighs.

Hey, there, no need to hold it against us for a little joking. I am coming to tell you of a matter much more serious.