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The great length of this Pastoral rendered its full insertion here inconvenient. But as all the foregoing plays were originally written merely as exercises in dramatic composition, and as such are now presented to the public, the Author deemed that a part of any of them, and of this last in particular, was as sufficient for a specimen and as amusing as the whole. It will be observed, that it is founded on the old romance of Tam Lane, and from that the issue may be divined.

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