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SCENE I. ''An open Street before the imperial palace. A crowd of men, women, and children discovered, bearing in their hands torches, with clubs, sticks, &c. and the stage entirely lighted by the red glare of their torches cast up against the walls of the building. The confused noise and clamour of a great crowd is heard as the curtain draws up.''

! let them come forth who trouble us, And love they blood and beating they shall have it.

Surrender! bread and wine, and peaceful days! Surrender, devils, or ye shall pay the cost.

Must we, men well instructed, rear'd, and cherish'd, The chiefest of all townsmen of the earth; We, whom all nations know and look upon