[MABEL]
All is prepared, your gallant crew await you
My Frederic in tears? It cannot be
That lion-heart quails at the coming conflict?

[FREDERIC]
No, Mabel, no
A terrible disclosure
Has just been made
Mabel, my dearly-loved one
I bound myself to serve the pirate captain
Until I reached my one-and-twentieth birthday

[MABEL]
But you are twenty-one?

[FREDERIC]
I've just discovered
That I was born in leap-year, and that birthday
Will not be reached by me 'til nineteen-forty!

[MABEL]
Oh, horrible! Catastrophe appalling!

[FREDERIC]
And so, farewell!
[MABEL]
No, no!
Ah, Frederic, hear me