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A TRAGEDY. 69
Enter Be ton. — A Brum is heard heating a JI01&
March,
B E T O N.
Oh, mercy ! Heavens ! alas, my Queen ! I fear
Some dreadful fate ; the Earls of Shrewfbury
And Huntingdon, attended by the guards.
Are at the caftle gate. —
LADY DOUGLAS.
Ah, here they come !
Th' array of death ! Ah ! is it come to this ?
E7tter Shrewfbury and Huntingdon, zvith Guards,
Executioner, &c.
SHREWSBURY.
The painful ofHce which I now perform —
MARY.
1 know your bufinefs. —
S H R E W S B U R Y.
Ah ! know you, alas !.
With what difpatch we're order'd to proceed ?
LADY DOUGLAS.
Oh, murder ! murder ! cruel murderers, flay ?
MARY.
patience, my child ! I did not think, I own.
My filler Queen wou'd have proceeded thus;
But if my body cannot fuflain one blow.
My foul deferves not thofe eternal joys
In Heav'i? my holy faith has promis'd me.
IT U N T I N G D O N.
'Tis vour accurfcd faith that feals vour doom ;
While
Enter Be ton. — A Brum is heard heating a JI01&
March,
B E T O N.
Oh, mercy ! Heavens ! alas, my Queen ! I fear
Some dreadful fate ; the Earls of Shrewfbury
And Huntingdon, attended by the guards.
Are at the caftle gate. —
LADY DOUGLAS.
Ah, here they come !
Th' array of death ! Ah ! is it come to this ?
E7tter Shrewfbury and Huntingdon, zvith Guards,
Executioner, &c.
SHREWSBURY.
The painful ofHce which I now perform —
MARY.
1 know your bufinefs. —
S H R E W S B U R Y.
Ah ! know you, alas !.
With what difpatch we're order'd to proceed ?
LADY DOUGLAS.
Oh, murder ! murder ! cruel murderers, flay ?
MARY.
patience, my child ! I did not think, I own.
My filler Queen wou'd have proceeded thus;
But if my body cannot fuflain one blow.
My foul deferves not thofe eternal joys
In Heav'i? my holy faith has promis'd me.
IT U N T I N G D O N.
'Tis vour accurfcd faith that feals vour doom ;
While
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| Description | As performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. By the Honourable John St. John. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.164(4) |
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| Description | Containing How to grow rich: a comedy, and Alonzo. A tragedy, and The highland fair; or, union of the clans. An opera, and Mary, Queen of Scots, a tragedy, and The fall of Mortimer. An historical play. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.164(1-5) |
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| Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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