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Alfred

A Masque
Mallet, David (1705?-1765)
  
ALFRED:
  
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PROLOGUE.
  
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ACT I.
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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.

  
EPILOGUE.
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SCENE VII.

Emma, and other peasants.
Emma.
Ah, whither shall we fly?
Immortal virgin! queen of mercy! save us—
See, see, my friends, they seize the lovely stranger—
They bear her off—Behold the king appears—
My husband too—Now, heaven, defend alike
The mighty and the mean, the prince and peasant!
Two of them fall beneath our monarch's arm—
The third, my Corin—O I dare no more
Look that way—Yet I must—The third is slain!
O gallant shepherd! O most happy hour!

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