Gipsy Prince, "Come from thy Cage, silly bird" Thomas Moore Editor, Frederick Burwick Technical Editor, Laura Mandell Technical Editor, Justin Tonra Romantic Circles General Editor, Neil Fraistat General Editor, Steven E. Jones 2012-10-12 Romantic Circles, http://www.rc.umd.edu, University of Maryland College Park, MD October 12, 2012

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 The Gypsy Prince Thomas Moore Frederick Burwick Technical Editor Justin Tonra. Encoding and Proofreading Deborah K. Wright Romantic Circles at the University of Maryland College Park Maryland May 1, 2011

Speaker element names have been regularised across this file and the Manuscript file, according to the names reproduced in the Dramatis Personae printed in the Historical Narrative: Don Roderic; Don Dominic; Gipsy Prince; Rincon; Old Jew; Alcaide; Alguazil(s); Officer(s); Messenger; Gipsies; Diego; Antonia; Poppee; Lachimee; Blanch; Alguazils, Peasants, Gipsies, etc. Note: the regularisation takes place only within speaker elements; it does not occur in the stage directions, text of the play or Dramatis Personae.

All dashes have been represented with an emdash: —, and surrounding whitespace has been deleted (except where dash is preceded by a full stop).

All quotation marks and apostrophes have been changed: " for “," for ”, ' for ‘, and ' for ’.

Incorrect and idiosyncratic spelling has not been regularised; instances are marked by a sic element.

 NINES categories for Genre and Material Form at http://www.performantsoftware.com/nines_wiki/index.php/Submitting_RDF#.3Cnines:genre.3E on 2009-02-26 Architecture Artifacts Bibliography Collection Criticism Letters Drama Life Writing Politics Folklore Ephemera Fiction History Leisure Manuscript Reference Works Humor Education Music nonfiction Paratext Perodical Philosphy Photograph Citation Family Life Poetry Religion Review Visual Art Translation Travel Book History Law Deborah K. Wright TEI-encoded using P5 Justin Tonra Minor changes and corrections of Deborah K. Wright's initial encoding. Justin Tonra Some further changes: matter omitted from performance; editorial notes for illegible text; changes to cast list. Deborah K. Wright Some further changes, including adding to the cast list to account for the Chorus, other changes/comments in response to Justin's questions/comments. Justin Tonra One minor change - removing superfluous square brackets from transcription, and adding tags to deleted word. Justin Tonra Several minor changes: I have inserted corrections to the transcript that were identified by Deborah K. Wright after comparison against manuscript images. Justin Tonra Regularisation of speaker names, detailed above in normalization. Regularisation of dashes to em dashes. Detailed above in hyphenation. Justin Tonra Incorrect and idiosyncratic spellings from ms encoded with sic. Justin Tonra This file is a modification of the original 'gipsy_ms' file. The change consists of the removal of the dramatic text from the file, and the encoding of songs using parallel segmentation. The dramatic text is encoded in a separate file entitled 'gipsy_ms_drama,' which contains anchor elements for the songs.
Transcribed from MS LA 1329, in the collection of John Larpent, Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays (1778-1824), at the Huntington Library.
(Strikes the Chords of her Guittar) (Enter Gipsey Prince from the Turret) Duett. Antonia Come from thy Cage, silly bird, dost thou hear, Thy mistress is singing to thee. Say, while she grants thee a Prison so dear, Oh! cans't thou e'er wish to be free? Gipsy Prince I knew by the Magic which stole on my ear, That my mistress was singing to me And while she grants me a Prison so dear, I never can wish to be free. Both Captive to thee, thus, and love Where is the heart that could rove?