No Song, No Supper

No Song, No Supper is an opera with music by Stephen Storace to a libretto by Prince Hoare.

It was immediately put into the Drury Lane repertoire and remained popular during Storace's lifetime.

[1] Having been cast ashore from a shipwreck, Frederick is glad to be alive ("The lingering pangs of hopeless love, condemn'd").

William and other shipmates reveal that nothing has been salvages from the ship and they will stand watch while Frederick and Robin go to Crop.

She reveals that she wanted to marry Robin, but her father refused on account of the potential groom's lack of money.

Endless enters and reveals a plan to disposes Crop of the house and take his wife Dorothy.

Inside the house, Crop and Dorothy argue and agree that the first person to speak shall shut the door.

Margaretta wanders by and is upset at having to make entreaties to a lawyer ("A Miser bid to have and hold me").

Upset at the news, she faints, at which point Frederick removes the disguise and proves to her that he's still alive.

Robin enters happily carrying a keg from the ship which is revealed to be holding a cache of gold ("Three years a sailor's life I led").

In singing the third verse ("This monstrous stone, the shepherd flung") Margaretta reveals that Endless is hiding in a sack.

Frederick enters with Louisa, now having unmasked himself as affluent and everyone sings optimistically of the future ("Let shepherd lads and maids advance")>