The Swiss Cottage, or Why Don't She Marry?
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The Swiss Cottage, or Why Don't She Marry? is a vaudeville in one act by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)[1]
The text also referred to simply as The Swiss Cottage, and on occasion called a musical burletta.
First performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, followed by performances at various American theatres. Published as Volume 405 of Dicks' standard plays, Volume 1 of Lacy's acting edition and in Samuel French's American Drama (no LXXIX), 1860 and by Thomas Hailes Lacy, London, 1866.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Haynes_Bayly
Facsimile version of the 1860 Samuel French edition, Google E-Book[2]