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Abimelech

an oratorio. As it is performed at the theatre-royal in Covent-Garden [by Christopher Smart]. The Music by Mr. Arnold

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Recitative.

Sarah.
All things are irksome to me in this place,
And every object fills me with disgust.
Wou'd I had never left my house and kindred
For such a vagrant life—Can ought compensate
For our dear peaceful home and native country?