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VGW(PU.775.017
5 May 1775:13, 214)
[Parody in article on politics]
A parody for your Lordship's perusal, on the 3d scene of the
5th act of Richard III.
Enter North from his bed. 'Tis now the dead of night, and
half the world is in a lonely solemn darkness hung; . . .
[14 lines of dialogue]
Britannia. O thou! whose unrelenting thoughts not all the
hideous terrours of thy guilt can shake! . . . [10 lines]
Enter the ghosts of those barbarously murdered at Brentford,
Boston, and in St. George's fields, in the merciful reign of
the present King.
Ghosts. North! dream on, . . . [8 lines]
. . . [Parody continues for rest of column]
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