OK sorry I took so long to add this next bit. The whole script's finished. It's just a matter of me getting around to typing it up. Any how...voila a bit more. And only Lina belongs to me obviously. Disclaimers are as before, and The Mikado belongs to Gilbert and Sullivan, not me. I just borrowed some words.

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Lina: Oh my head, my poor head! Where were we?

Misto (helpfully): Saddlebags?

Lina (wearily): Yes, go from there.

Etcetera: Look in the saddebags.

Admetus: My dresses!

Skimble: My jewels!

        (singing)

Admetus: I'll be fine Skimble: I will shine Both: With these gifts my father bought Skimble: I'll be famed Admetus: I'll be acclaimed Both: With these wonderful things I've been brought.

Admetus: But wait!

Skimble: Doesn't Beauty get anything?

Etc (sadly, produces a red rose from coat pocket) Here's your rose, my dear. But it was dearly bought.

Munku: What d'you mean, father?

Etc: I looked everywhere during my travels for a red rose for you. Yellow roses there were in plenty, and pink and white and cream. But not a single red rose was to be had. On my journey home I became lost in the forest....

Tugger: Scaaary!

Lina: Grrr.

Etc: At last I saw a gate in a high tone wall, and through it, a red rose growing tall. I was so disappointed-

Tugger:HA!

Etc: -not to have any gift for you that I....well I picked a rose from it. And then at once afearsome beast appeared and roared at me.

Jemima: Who dares pick my roses?

Lina: NO! You're angry, you're furious, you're a monster! Roar! Loudly!

Jemima: WHO DARES PICK MY ROSES?!

Etc: I fell to my knees and said: 'for my youngest daughter I picked this rose and I did wrong. I await my punishment."

Jemima: YOU DARED! BU I WILL SPARE YOUR LIFE. IN 3 DAYS YOU MUST RETURN HERE WITH YOUR - Lina, I'm losing my voice!

Lina: Here's a Strepsil. Now get on with it.

Jemima: WITH YOUR DAUGHTER WHO WILL LIVE ME FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE!!! IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS I WILL KILL YOUR WHOLE FAMILY!!! Phew!

Etc: I bowed and hurried away. But now what are we to do? I will not give Beauty to the Beast to be eaten. But if I don't, we'll all die. Here's a how-dee-do.

(sings) Here's a how-dee-do
        If I give him you
        When your time has come to perish
        Then the father who you cherish
        Will be slaughtered too
        Here's a how-dee-do!

Skimble&Admetus: Here's a pretty mess
        In a week or less
        She will die without a wedding
        Let the bitter tears we're shedding
        Witness our distress
        Here's a pretty mess!

Munku (aside): Here's a state of things
        To me father clings
        All this filial devotion
        Doesn't really suit my notion
        Burial it brings
        Here's a state of things!

Munku: But father if I don't go, the Beast will kill you all. I must go!

Skimble: But Beauty you can't!

Admetus: Beauty, you simply can't!

Etc: No, I cannot allow it. I'm old. I shall die in your place.

Tugger: Ooooooooh! Guilt trip!

Lina: Ssh!

Munku: Father, you must take care of the others. ANd I'm not much use really. i'm not even pretty.

Tugger: THAT'S true. Blatantly true. Kill him off Cetty, kill him off!

(Lina smacks Tugger with a rolled up script)

Tugger: Ow!

Munku (sings): What foolish chance was it that led
        My mother me to name
        So truly wrongly "Beauty"? Her
        For that I have to blame

        I am no Beauty no indeed
        I have no pleasant face
        And I do wish it were not so
        That it were not the case

        Wish my hair was golden, not plain mouse
        Wish my eyes were cornflower blue
        Wish my skin was white and my hands well-kept
        Wish I looked like my sisters two

        Wish I walked with graceful not clumsy step
        With t'were for my looks, not my gold, my fame
        Wish I sang like a lark not a croaking frog

(Tugger cracks up)

        Wish I were Beauty in more than name.

Munku: No father, I'll go.

Etc: I don'tlike it but if you wish it.

Munku: I do wish it.

Skimble: Oh no, Beauty, no!

Admetus: Father, stop her!

Munku: Grace, Hope, you must see. I have to go. You won't miss me so very much after a while.

Skimble&Admetus: But we will!

Etc: Yes we will!

Munku (sings): Smile! Smile! Smile!
        Show a happy grin
        Make your smile reach half a mile
        Don't let that smile grow thin

Skimble&Admetus&Etc:We'll miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiss you we'll miiiiiiiiiiiss you.

Munku: Smile! Smile! Smile!
        Show a face of joy
        Don't be sad even for a while
        Don't let your happiness cloy

Skimble&Admetus&Etc:We'll miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiss you we'll miiiiiiiiiiiss you.

Munku: Smile! Smile! Smile!
        Smile and never cry
        Don't trip a fall at a single stile
        Time perhaps will fly

All: Smile! Smile! Smile!
        Smile and never cry
        Don't trip a fall at a single stile
        Time perhaps will fly
        Time perhaps will flyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[EXEUNT]

part 4....