beat 18
All clear!
(remove costume)
Worked like a charm! Brighella, you're a genius!
Your most obedient servant!
No longer servant. From this hour, Brighella is a free man!
Free! Thank you. Thank you, belovéd Master!
Uh?
I mean... belovéd friend! May you both be blessed by the fates with a long and loving marriage.
Come with us to Bergamo.
I should love nothing better.... but...
"But"?
I'll have to get travelling permission... from my husband!
Go quickly! Long goodbyes are... painful.
Farewell, my good and faithful friend.
Farewell, my one-time Master.
I will not cry. I... will... Not....
Hurry now. My eyes are burning snd that's... out of character.
Must be the glare from the sun.
(Pause.)
Now, to find Doctor Graziano and collect my money!
What's that?
WHAT THE DEVIL!!!? WHAT'S HAPPENED?
Harlequino!!
What!!!?
Tied me up, stole my priest's costume, knocked me unconscious!
Bamboozled!!
Yes! Yes!! Bamboozled!! When I get my hands on...
Not before I do!!
Let me think! Let me think! Of course!! If I wait long enough, he'll come to me.
BAMBOOZLER!!!
WHERE'S THE MONEY??
Money? What money!? Oh! That money.
Hand it over!
Take it easy! You'll get everything that's coming to you!
I don't like the sound of that! If this is a trick..
No trick!! No trick!! ..... Count it! Go on! It's all there. Count it! You're the most untrusting...
(sarcastic) Forgive me.
Uh, Oh!
(kiss the crone, chasing, laughter)
(harlequino, pantalone, exit)
That should keep him busy for awhile. At least long enough for me to hire and ship and set sail for... who knows what adventure! Why the whole world is at my feet? My...
Gone!! The ducats are gone!! Harlequino's picked my purse!! BAMBOOZLED!!!
(crone)
STOP!! STOP THIEF!!! STOP!!!
Let's have our players back to take a bow!
(curtain call)