Citation - Pennsylvania Evening Post: 1778.08.31

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Index Entry Bell's Book Store, sells Political Duenna [t], a comic opera 
Location Philadelphia 
Citation
PEP.778.062
31 Aug 1778:3181 (4/524)
Just published, and now selling at Bell's book store, next
door to St. Paul's church, Third-Street, Philadelphia, 
Gustavus Vasa, Deliverer of his country.  Inscribed to his
excellency General Washington, Commander in Chief of the
Forces of the Thirteen United States of America.
Shall tyranny power and slavish fear, 
To Freedom's sweetest tale shut Britain's ear?
Shall her brave sons the patriot chief disclaim?
Her infants should be taught to lisp his name.
Written by Henry Brooke, esq;
[signed] Anonymous.
. . . Also just published, and now selling at Bell's
bookstore next door to St. Paul's Church in Third-Street,
Philadelphia, 
THE POLITICAL DUENNA:
A Comic Opera, in three acts, as it is performed by the
servants of his Britannic Majesty.
With two remarkable letters on American Affairs:
. . . [6 more lines]
Personifications in the Duenna.
Don Luis, King of Britain. Mac Boot, Earl of Bute. Boreas,
Lord North. Twitcher, Lord Sandwich. Minden, Lord George
Gerrmaine. Mungo, Jerry Dyson. Weatherbeaten, Counselor
Wedderburne. Caen-Wood, Lord Mansfield. Dart-ford, Lord
Dartmouth. Canting John, John Wesley. Pinchey, Trinket-Maker
to his Britannic Majesty. Lieutenant of the Navy. Clara
Raymond, Mistress to Lord Sandwich.
. . . [3 lines]


Generic Title Pennsylvania Evening Post 
Date 1778.08.31 
Publisher Towne, Benjamin 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1778 
Bibliography B0034247
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