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Marco and Giuseppe are Venetian gondoliers. They have just married local girls, Tessa and Gianetta, and are still in the first flush of romance. The Grand Inquisitor, Don Alhambra, arrives and informs the two men that one of them is the King of Barataria, but no one knows which. The young prince was raised incognito by Baptisto Palmieri, a gondolier, who had a young son of his own about the same age. However, Baptisto was a drunkard and eventually forgot which boy was his own son and which was
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Giuseppe. And now our lives are going to begin in real earnest! What's a bachelor? A mere nothing — he's a chrysalis. He can't be said to live — he exists.
Marco. What a delightful institution marriage is! Why have we wasted all this time? Why didn't we marry ten years ago?
Tessa. Because you couldn't find anybody nice enough.
Gianetta. Because you were waiting
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