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It is scarcely necessary to premise, that the foundation of this Piece is the conspiracy of Babington against the life of Queen Elizabeth, and for the elevation of Mary Queen of Scots, and the Romish religion. Some incidents have of course been altered, and others added. The romantic, and to say the truth, somewhat too theatrical incident of the picture, is, however, strictly historical. The scene is laid alternately at London and at Dethicke, in Derbyshire, the seat of the Babingtons.
The precise time supposed to pass, the imagination of the reader must fix for himself.
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