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Madrigal And Trulletta

A Mock-Tragedy

Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)

MADRIGAL AND TRULLETTA.

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SCENE VI.

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EPILOGUE. Design'd to be spoken by Scourella.

ODE to Gog and Magog, at the end of the fourth act.

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SCENE VI.

Madrigal.
A shield! a shield! my Genius for a shield!
I think there be ten Buckrams in the field,

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Nine I have slain to-day instead of him.
A shield! a shield! my Genius for a shield!

Excursions.

This, and the three following lines, an imitation of a speech in King Richard the Third.