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The Captives

Warner, Richard (1713?-1775)
  
THE CAPTIVES.
  
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PROLOGUE.

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ACT I.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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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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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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ACT IV.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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ACT V.
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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 III.

ERGASILUS
alone.
He's gone,—and has intrusted to my care
The high and grand concern of catering.—
Immortal Gods! how I shall cut and quarter!
How I shall chop the crags from off the chines!
What devastation will befal the hams!
What a consumption rage among the bacon!
What massacre of fat sows paps! of brawn
What havock will arise!—Then what fatigue
Awaits the butchers! what the hog-killers!—
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But to say more of what concerns good eating,
Is loss of time, and hindrance.—I will now
Go enter on my government, and sit
In judgment o'er the bacon,—set at liberty
Hams that have hung untry'd and uncondemn'd.

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