Citation - Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia: 1778.07.14

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Index Entry Bell's Bookstore, sells Political Duenna [t], a comic opera 
Location Philadelphia 
Citation
PP-P.778.002
14 Jul 1778:12
[Advertisement for a book, Gustavus Vasa, Deliverer of his
Country]
Shall tyrant policy 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.
[signed] Anonymous.
. . . Also, Just published, and now selling at Bell's Book-
Store, 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, K--g of B----n. Mac Boot, Earl of B--te. Boreas,
Lord N---h. Twitcher, Lord S---h. Minden, Lord G---e G--rm--
e. Mungo, Jerry Dymon. Weatherbeaten, Counselor W---d---s---
e. Caen-Wood, Lord M--sf--d. Dart-ford, Lord D---tm--h.
Canting John, John Wesley. Pinchey, Trinket-Maker to his B--
--c M----y. Lieutenant of the Navy. Clara Raymond, Mistress
to Lord S---h.
. . . [3 more lines]


Generic Title Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia 
Date 1778.07.14 
Publisher Dunlap, John 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1778 
Bibliography B0040302
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