- Manuela: I wish I had now. Now, will you get out of here?
- Serafin: You won't come with me?
- Manuela: No.
- Serafin: Very well then.
- [He goes through the window, turns to Manuela]
- Serafin: You know, it isn't essential for you to love me to be in the troupe. It helps, but it isn't essential.
- Manuela: Get out!
- Serafin: [leaves to go out window] Good-bye.
- Manuela: No, not that way! You'll kill yourself.
- Serafin: You do care. You do care!
- Manuela: No, I don't! No, I don't!
- Serafin: Manuela, you love me! You love me!
- Manuela: [while hypnotized] Underneath this prim exterior, there are depths of emotion, romantic longings... Underneath this prim exterior, there are depths of emotion, romantic longings...
- Serafin: [standing by the noose] Usually for our opening I perform a rope trick, but tonight under the circumstances, I will skip the rope.
- Serafin: You know, it isn't essential for you to love me for you to join the troupe. It-it helps, but it isn't essential.
- Manuela: How could I have been so gullible? Why, I should have known from the first moment I saw you on the stage that you know nothing about acting!
- Serafin: [after Manuela smashes a painting over his head] You're overdoing this! You're being vindictive!
- The Viceroy: I must say, Macoco, you're very satisfying! The other members of your profession whom I've met officially looked more like bookkeepers than pirates, but you - ooo hooo hooo - you fill the eye.
- Serafin: Thank you.
- Don Pedro Vargas: Macoco!
- [comes up to the Serafin's stage, angrily]
- Don Pedro Vargas: I've had enough of this! This marionette strutting around for pretending to be the black Macoco! You think a runt like that could handle a crew of cutthroats? You think real men would risk their necks to serve under him? If you want to worship Macoco, then worship me! It was I, who was the terror of the Caribbean! 'The most feared and hated men who ever sailed a ship!' At the mere mention of my name armed fleets who slinked into harbors! Whole populations would flee into hills! When my ship came in sight of land my name would like thunder rolling in from the sea! I am this man you worship!
- [grabs Manuela's hand, Serafin stops him and reach his two guns out]
- Don Pedro Vargas: I am Macoco! Not this greasepaint hero. This puny, rabbit-hearted, white-livered buffoon! I'm MACOCO!
- [Serafin's guys tosses him with the bat and Serafin hits him and shoots]
- Manuela: I realize that there's a practical world and a dream world. I know which is which. I shan't mix them. I promise.
- Serafin: I believe a condemned man has a right to one last request.
- The Viceroy: Oh, within reason - a visit from a loved one, a prayer, a beef steak.
- Serafin: [after tricking his troupe and stealing their last cigar] I was, er... keeping it lit for you.
- Serafin: Come, pure spirit. Come with me.
- Don Pedro Vargas: I forbid it, it's a disgrace!
- The Viceroy: [to Don Pedro] Sit down, Don Pedro.
- [turns back to Serafin]
- Serafin: Gracious lady, if you have any wish express it freely to me. I, who am your friend.
- Manuela: I wish...
- Serafin: Yes?
- Manuela: I wish...
- Don Pedro Vargas: Black magic! I won't have him practice black magic on my future wife! Oh, It's an outrage!
- The Viceroy: [to Don Pedro] Hold your tongue, Don Pedro. I will not have this performance ruined by your bourgeoise possessiveness.
- Serafin: Excellency, would you please tell him this is not flirtation. It is science.
- The Viceroy: It is science.
- Don Pedro Vargas: Whatever you called, I don't like it!
- The Viceroy: [turns to Don Pedro] I demand that you hold your tongue!
- [turns back to Serafin]
- The Viceroy: Proceed, sir, with this mesmerism.
- Aunt Inez: Capucho, I want you to listen carefully: Bolt the front door and don't let anyone in. You understand?
- Uncle Capucho: [nods] My dear, If I may make a suggestion?
- Aunt Inez: Yes.
- Trillo: Say, who's that man with the whip?
- The Advocate: Manuela's fiance. He's also mayor of the town.
- Trillo: Yes.
- [to Serafin's troupes]
- Trillo: All right, boys. Start packing.
- [first lines]
- Manuela: The history of the Pirate, Mack the Black Macoco... Macoco the dazzling, Macoco the tabulous, the hawk of the sea, the prince of pirates whose spirit of legends will live on through the ages, praise a mortal thieves. As hereinafter set forth and whose glorious and formidable exploits are here related in a true history. Staggering to the imagination and ravishing the sensibilities with tales of wealth of gold and silver beyond dreams of avarice of stolen treasure of maidens captive of villages destroyed of cities decimated for a whim or a caress.
- Manuela: To see Paris! All my life I've dreamed of that, the gaiety, and color and people.
- Don Pedro Vargas: I've seen it all.
- Manuela: I should have thought that in a town like Port Sebastián, bodyguards were unnecessary.
- Serafin: You, gracious lady, will always need a bodyguard. Even in the lonely wastes of the Sahara Desert, the sands would rise up and follow you. Tell me, what is your name?
- Manuela: I do not see how that could possibly concern you.
- Serafin: It is as vital to me as the beat of my heart. Are you married?
- Manuela: No, but I will be by this time next week.
- Serafin: Then you should never step into the sight of other men. It is too great a provocation.
- Manuela: Very well. I shall remove the provocation.
- Manuela: [singing] When he'd make his daily rounds, Gals would trail him like a pack o' hounds, Every night, he'd have a date, Ladies go to pieces over pieces of eight...
- Manuela: I shall do his bidding. I shall follow him. Yea, to the ends of the world, I shall follow him!
- Serafin: I must have a pure person, one pure person. "Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered." Purity at last. Purity. Ah, gracious lady, that you should be here makes it indeed a blessing. Come, come. I, Serafin, ask it.