The Cabinet
The Cabinet is a comic opera in three acts by Thomas Dibdin (1771-1841)(https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001418521).
The story is taken from an old ballad named "Old Bull". First performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Graden, on Tuesday, February 9th, 1802, with music by J. Moorhead. Published in London by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805. The work contains the popular song
1818: "The Bird Duet" from The Cabinet (with music by J. Braham), was sung by Mr Cooke and Mrs Cooke on the 26th September, as an interlude between The Wandering Boys (Pixérécourt) and The Miller and his Men (Pocock), performed by .
Sources
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001418521
Facsimile version of the 1805 text, Hathi Trust (digitized by Internet Archive)[1]