Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience

When a unit of Heavy Dragoons returns home, they are astonished to find all of their old fiancees sighing after the aesthetic poet Bunthorne. He, meanwhile, has fallen in love with Patience the milkmaid, the only woman in the village who does not worship him. She prefers her childhood playmate, now a poet himself and Bunthorne's rival for the adoration of the village maidens...