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Alfred

A Masque
Garrick, David (1717-1779)
  
ALFRED:
  
[preface]
  
ARGUMENT.
  
PROLOGUE, By a FRIEND.
  
PERSONS.

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ACT I.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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ACT II.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.
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ACT III.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.

  
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EPILOGUE.
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ARGUMENT.

After the Danes had made themselves masters of Chippenham, the strongest city in the kingdom of Wessex, Alfred was at once abandoned by all his subjects; in this universal defection, that monarch found himself obliged to retire into the little isle of Athelney in Somersetshire—there, in the habit of a peasant, he liv'd unknown in a shepherd's cottage—he is supposed to be found in this retreat by the Earl of Devon, whose castle upon the river Tau was then besieged by the Danes.

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