RECITATIVE, SOLO AND CHORUS: No, I'll be brave!
MABEL: (almost fainting) No, I'll be brave! 
Oh, family descent, 
How great thy charm, thy sway how excellent! 
Come one and all, undaunted men in blue, 
A crisis, now, affairs are coming to!
(Enter POLICE, marching in single file)
SERGEANT: Though in body and in mind
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: We are timidly inclined,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: And anything but blind
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: To the danger that's behind,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: Yet, when the danger's near,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: We manage to appear
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: As insensible to fear 
As anybody here, 
As anybody here.
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!, etc.