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THE ARGUMENT.
The design is taken from the Interlude in Hamlet, in which, by the help of a set of Strolling Actors, are related some serious Truths.
The audience is suppos'd to consist chiefly of True Britons—to whom the heavy burden of national debt is shewn in the Number of the Taxes, which are introduc'd, and PERSONATED to give more strength and life to the relation.—A Scheme for redress is proposed by a WORTHY Patriot—meets with encouragement —great blessings expected from it.—Thoughts upon civil government occasionally interspersed.—The scheme is suspected by those, who have the Taxes mortgag'd to them, to be levelled against such practises.—They and their confederates contrive a plot to undermine it, by representing all Patriots as Jacobites.—The plot too stale and trifling to be regarded—the Patriot Scheme succeeds—the True Old Constitution is restored, &c.— the new measures put a stop to all complaints—and the whole body of the people becomes reconciled to the Administration.—Song—and Dance.—
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