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The Beggar's Opera (1948)

Benjamin Britten

Plays: 15114

ballad-opera by John Gay (1728), realized from the original airs by Benjamin Britten

The girl shows such a readiness (excerpt)

Duration: 00 mins 54 secs

Anne Collins / Ann Murray / Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra / Steuart Bedford
(p) and © 1993 Decca Record Co. Ltd.
Decca 436 850-2

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Text heard on Sample:

Mrs Peachum: O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed:
By keeping men off, you keep them on.

Polly: But he so teased me,
And he so pleased me,
What I did you must have done.

Chorus: O Polly, you might have toyed...

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