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Ethelstan ; Or, The Battle of Brunanburgh

A Dramatic Chronicle. In Five Acts
Darley, George (1795-1846)
  
ETHELSTAN;
  
[dedication]
  
[castlist]

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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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ACT II.
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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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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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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.
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ACT IV.
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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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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 V.

The Woods.
Enter Edmund disguised.
Edmund.
Can I reach Fredda-thorpe my 'scape is sure:
That's but a steed's swift flight across the wolds
Into St. Cuthbert's Franchise; thence not far
To Carleol, where the Cumbrian king resides,
And many a thane and warlike elderman
Keep firm-set shoulder, back'd by him, against
This tyrant, in the Westmere fastnesses;
Their people, half Welsh and whole rebel, think
Their bread most sweet when crush'd from blood-red corn,
And fight like Irish kerns for idle humour:
Better go there and live, than stay and die!

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