Had I Been in Love lyrics

[ELIZABETH, spoken]
How despicably have I acted.  

[JANE AUSTEN]
Choose each word with care
Let the truth lay conscience bare

[ELIZABETH]
I who thought I knew my mind
I could not have been more blind
Had I been in love

[JANE AUSTEN]
How should she respond?
Why do we not see beyond
Our first impressions?

[ELIZABETH]
Now I find
I could not have been more blind
Had I been in love

[JANE AUSTEN]
Vanity has been the folly!
Vanity, not love!
And she never knew herself
Until this moment!
[ELIZABETH]
Oh, I’m so ashamed!
And I’ve only pride to blame!
Haunted I became unkind
I could not have been more blind
Had I been in love

Vanity has been my folly
Vanity, not love
And I never knew myself
Until this moment!

[JANE AUSTEN]
Oh, at last I know!

[ELIZABETH]
I never knew myself until this moment!

[JANE AUSTEN]
How the story ought to go!
Circ*mstances set us free

[ELIZABETH]
I never knew…

[JANE AUSTEN]
But we learn what love can be!
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[ELIZABETH]
Could I have been more blind?
Had I been

[ELIZABETH, JANE AUSTEN, ENSEMBLE]
In love