Scene 3: Married Life
After the couple have got married, we move quickly to disillusion
- after, that is, a bass viol sonata by the Italian composer Lorenzo
Bocchi, who worked in London, Edinburgh and Dublin in the early eighteenth
century. In Purcell's Why, my Daphne, why complaining? not many
hours have elapsed since they lifted their hands up to Heav'n,
but even so the seeds of doubt have been sown. There is a reconciliation
of sorts at the end, but things go from bad to worse in the next few
pieces, and as ever the man turns to drink - a state expressed in
a classic form by Purcell's Bacchus is a pow'r divine.
HE:
Proud beauty now see, 
