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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Song: ‘You know the old Hidalgo’

By Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903)

YOU know the old Hidalgo

(His box is next to ours)

Who threw the Prima Donna

The wreath of orange-flowers:

He owns the half of Aragon,

With mines beyond the main;

A very ancient nobleman

And gentleman of Spain.

They swear that I must wed him,

In spite of yea or nay,

Though uglier than the Scaramouch,

The spectre in the play;

But I will sooner die a maid

Than wear a gilded chain,

For all the ancient noblemen

And gentlemen of Spain!