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Elvira

A Tragedy
Mallet, David (1705?-1765)
  
ELVIRA:
  
[dedication]
  
PROLOGUE.
  
[castlist]
  
[section]

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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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SCENE VIII.
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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ACT IV.
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ACT V.

  
EPILOGUE.
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SCENE VII.

ELVIRA.
What have I heard! If my stun'd ear may credit
Her direful threats, the tempest is at hand
That must o'erwhelm us both! And yet how firm,
Amid these horrors, would my heart be found,
If only I stood obvious to the bolt!
If all my fears were for myself alone!

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