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Walpole : Or Every Man Has His Price

A Comedy In Rhyme In Three Acts
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873)
  
WALPOLE
  
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ACT FIRST.
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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 SECOND.
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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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SCENE X.
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SCENE XI.
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ACT THIRD.
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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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SCENE X.
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SCENE XI.

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SCENE I.

St James's Park. Seats, &c. Time—Sunset.
Enter Blount.
BLOUNT.
So the parson is found and the cottage is hired—
Every fear was dispelled when my rival retired.
Ev'n my stern mother country must spare from my life
A brief moon of that honey one tastes with a wife!
And then strong as a giant, recruited by sleep,
On corruption and Walpole my fury shall sweep.
'Mid the cheers of the House I will state in my place
How the bribes that he proffered were flung in his face.
Men shall class me amid those examples of worth
Which, alas! become daily more rare on this earth;
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And Posterity, setting its brand on the front
Of a Walpole, select for its homage a Blount.

(Enter Bellair, singing gaily.)
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