[FREDERIC]
Oh, false one, you have deceived me!

[RUTH]
I have deceived you?

[FREDERIC]
Yes, deceived me!

[FREDERIC & RUTH, Alternating]
You told me you were fair as gold!
And, master, am I not so?
And now I see you're plain and old!
I'm sure I'm not a jot so!
Upon my innocence you play
I'm not the one to plot so
Your face is lined, your hair is grey
It's gradually got so

[FREDERIC]
Faithless woman, to deceive me,
I who trusted so!

[RUTH]
Master, master, do not leave me!
Hear me, ere you go!
[FREDERIC & RUTH, Alternating]
Faithless woman!
Master, master
Faithless woman
Master, master[RUTH]
Do not leave me,
Do not leave me,
Hear me ere you go!
Master, master
Do not leave me
Hear me ere you go[FREDERIC]
Faithless woman
To deceive me,
I who trusted so!
Faithless woman
to deceive me
I who trusted so![RUTH]
My love without reflecting,
Oh, do not be rejecting!
Take a maiden tender,
Her affection raw and green.
At very highest rating,
Has been accumulating,
Summer seventeen
Summer seventeen
Don't, beloved master,
Crush me with disaster
What is such a dower
To the dower I have here?[RUTH]
Don't, beloved master,
Crush me with disaster
What is such a dower
To the dower I have here?[FREDERIC]
Yes, your former master
Saves you from disaster;
Your love would be uncomfort-
ably vivid, it is clear[FREDERIC & RUTH, Alternating]
My love unabating
if as you are stating
Has been accumulating
It's been accumulating
Forty seven year
Forty seven year!
Forty seven year!
[FREDERIC]
Faithless woman, to deceive me
I who trusted so![RUTH]
Master, master
Do not leave me,
Here me ere I go![Frederic]
Faithless woman
To deceive me
I who trusted so![FREDERIC]
What shall I do? Before these gentle maidens
I dare not show in this alarming costume!
No, no, I must remain in close concealment
Until I can appear in decent clothing!