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body ever paid half a crown to gape at.—List! list! he's roaring again. ('s voice heard as before.)

Well; I must speak to my master, be the cost what it may.

Come along, then.[Exeunt.

The grand Library; is discovered standing on a platform, with a table before him and his MS. oration in his hand, surrounded by  and, &c, &c., while a general murmur of applause is heard, as the scene opens.

Pardon me for a moment. (Takes a glass of water from the table and drinks it slowly.)

Was there ever any thing so eloquent?—Is it not sublime?—And you love poetry, Lady