The Setting Sun: Or, Devil Amongst the Placemen. To which is Added a New Musical Drama; Being a Parody on The Beggar's Opera ...J.D. Dewick, for T. Hughes, 1809 |
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adieu affair AIR.-FRED barber baronet beast BEGGAR'S OPERA bishops blessings Buonaparté Cardinal Fesch CASSOWARY character church Clarke coachmen Colonel Wardle corruption crown dear dear Doctor dearee dearest DEVIL AMONGST Doctor DONKEYMAN DOODLER Duke Enter Servant Ev'ry Exeunt Exit Servant expence eyes FAVORI favour Ferrol fool France FRANÇOIS FRED friends genius give Glyster Place goose gudgeon hand hireling mob honest honor horse HUDIBRAS Incitatus jacobins jubilee ladies letter lord Castlereagh lord mayor Lord Wellington Ma'am Madam merrily we live merry ministerial ministers MOLL SHARP never nobility PARISH FEASTING parishioners parochial Perceval pocket presbyter present pretty rapacity reign reversionary grant royal SANDMAN Scheldt Segrim select vestry select vestrymen SETTING SUN Sing Sir William Curtis soon sure Theodora thing throat tion Tom Browne TRAPES venal whilst woman worthy Your's
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