. The London stage : a collection of the most reputed tragedies, comedies, operas, melo-dramas, farces and interludes ; accurately printed from acting copies, as performed at the Theatres Royal, and carefully collated and revised. hese unhappy Christians; and when heapdWith varied benefits, and chargd with riches,Give them safe conduct to the nearest But, sir—Osm. Reply not, but obey:Fly; nor dispute thy masters last command;Thy prince, who orders, and thy friend, who loves warrior! yet less lost than I,Haste from our bloody land ; and to thy own,Convey this poor, pale


. The London stage : a collection of the most reputed tragedies, comedies, operas, melo-dramas, farces and interludes ; accurately printed from acting copies, as performed at the Theatres Royal, and carefully collated and revised. hese unhappy Christians; and when heapdWith varied benefits, and chargd with riches,Give them safe conduct to the nearest But, sir—Osm. Reply not, but obey:Fly; nor dispute thy masters last command;Thy prince, who orders, and thy friend, who loves warrior! yet less lost than I,Haste from our bloody land ; and to thy own,Convey this poor, pale object of my king, and all his Christians, when they hearThy miseries, shall mourn tliem with their tears;But, if thou tellst them mine, and tellst them , who hate my crime, shall pity , too, this poniard with thee, which my handHas staind with blood far dearer than my own;Tell them, with this I murderd her I lovd;The noblest and most virtuous among women!The soul of innocence, and pride of truth !Tell them, I laid my empire at her feet;Tell them, I plungd my dagger in her blood;Tell them, I so adord—and thus revengd her. (^Slabs himself.) THE CURFEW; A PLAY, IN FIVE ACTS.—BY JOHN T O B BARON DE TRACYROBERTFITZHARDINGBERTRAND CHARACTERS. WALTERPHILIPCONRADARMSTRONG Acl II —StoiiP 3. VASSALSFRIARMATILDAFLORENCE ACT I. Scene I.—A Room in Baron de Tracys Castle,Baron De Tracy discovered, kneeling to apictureof Thou frail luemorial of that blessed spirit,Which, after earthly martyrdom, now sittestThrond with rejoicing angels, see me kneelWith the prone spirit of deep despair, to do thee revrence :If that foul deeds, as horrible as ever at the throne of grace find thou my advocate, with boundless than thy exceeding wrongs, plead for what cannot be pardond, may thro theeProvoke a lighter penance. (Rises.) So, that done,My heart hath heavd oftsomewhat of its load ;For when, in


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