and some from traditional airs and popular songs of the day including "Buffalo Gals", and "Nix my Dolly".

rightThe dialogue for burlesques was generally written in rhyming couplets, or, less often, in other verse forms, such as blank verse; it was notable for its bad puns. For example, in Faust up to Date (1888), a couplet reads:
:Mephistopheles: "Along the Riviera dudes her praises