[DUKE]
Dear young woman, when I'm gazing
Fondly at you, it's amazing
How much love I'd love to vow
But though I've had a lot of practice
At this sort of thing, the fact is
I am not myself just now

[ANGELA]
Dear, my lord, I fear you're scoffing

[DUKE]
With Cellini in the offing
I'm as nervous as can be

[ANGELA]
Your highness—

[DUKE]
Call me Bumpy

[ANGELA]
You do seem rather jumpy

[DUKE]
I beg you bear with me
I know where there's a nosy cook
[ANGELA]
My lord, you mean a cozy nook

[DUKE]
Yes, yes, of course! A cozy nook for two
And there we two can kill and boo

[ANGELA]
My lord, you mean we'll bill and coo

[CELLINI]
It seems to me that killing and booing should do

[DUKE]
I cannot promise you bedding wells

[ANGELA]
My thoughts, they weren't on wedding bеlls

[DUKE]
Whatever you do is for the fathеrland
I love you for your sturgeon vile

[ANGELA]
My lord, you mean my virgin style?
[DUKE]
It's wonderful how love can understand!

[ANGELA, DUKE & CELLINI]
It's wonderful how love can understand!

[DUKE]
Listen, loveliest of your gender
Somehow phrases soft and tender
Do not sound their best tonight

[ANGELA]
It seems you get the words all twisted

[DUKE]
But the way that you assisted
Thrills me through with sheer delight

[ANGELA]
When the ducal throat is vocal
Women from afar, and local
Always know what's on his mind

[CELLINI]
The situation vexes
I'm finding out that sex is
The curse of humankind
[DUKE]
I know where there's a booden wench

[ANGELA]
My lord, you mean a wooden bench

[DUKE]
Yes, yes, of course! A wooden bench for two
And there we two can biss a kit

[ANGELA]
My lord, you mean we'll kiss a bit

[CELLINI]
He may be biting more biss-a-kit than he can chew!

[ANGELA]
I like the way that you stress you're cute
I mean, the way that you press your suit
I sense it from the way you press my hand

[DUKE]
And so I offer wedless bliss

[ANGELA]
I'd rather it were bedless wiss!

[DUKE]
It's wonderful how love can understand!

[ANGELA, DUKE & CELLINI]
It's wonderful how love can understand!

[NARRATOR, spoken]
Things suddenly get out of hand
As Cellini, Florence's firebrand
Leaps at the Duke, mid-embrace
Removing him from Angela's face