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The choice spirits feast

a comic ode. By George Alexander Stevens
Stevens, George Alexander (1710-1784)

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PROLOGUE,
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The Choice Spirits Feast.
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[FIRST PART.]
  
RECITATIVE.
  
DUETT.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
CHORUS.
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SECOND PART.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
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EPILOGUE.

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RECITATIVE.

Long ago,
E're better Music Britons learn'd to know,
Our British Bards. from whom Choice Spirits come,
Thus rudely garnish'd out each Harvest-home:
Sung Chevy-Chace, and Robin Hood;
Or Corn grows now were Troy Town stood.
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