"To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, / To a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, / Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, / From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!"
— W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) The Mikado, act 1
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| Finale of act 1, at the Savoy Theater (1908) |
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