Excerpt from Plays: Viz. The Captives, a Tragedy; The Beggar's Opera; Polly, or the Second Part of the Beggar's Opera; Achilles, an Opera; The Distress'd Wife, a Comedy; The Rehearsal at Gotham, a Farce
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