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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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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 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.

  
EPILOGUE.
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SCENE IV.

Eltruda, Attendant, Emma, and others.
Emma.
O mighty queen,
They come, the murderers come. Protect us, heaven,
[kneeling.
Our husbands, and our infants, from their rage.
Without thine aid we perish.

Eltruda.
O my soul!
Why what a sight is this? A tyrant's eye
Might melt with pity o'er it. Thou supreme,
[kneeling.
All-ruling arbiter of human fate!
Whose universal family is nature,
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On Alfred, on his children, on his people,
Look down with mercy—for their cause is thine,
And now, even now, deciding!

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