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    " Louis * 'Tie ia vain , I strive by business to beguile impatienee ! Hdw my heart beate J-r-Well , Count I Enter Grammont .

    Gram * Alas ! my Liege ! Louis . Alas !—Speak out ! Gram . The Court has lost La Valliere ! Louis * Ha !—lost ! Gram . She has fled , and none guess whither . Louis * Fled ! I'll not believe ifc I—Fled I

    Lauzun . What matters , Sire ? No spot is sacred from a King ! Louis * By Heaven I am a King It—Not all the arms of Europe Could wrest one jewel from my crown , AncJ she—* What is my crown to her ? I am a King ! Who stands between a King and her he loves

    Becomes a traitor—and many find a tyrant ! Follow me ! " pp . 56 , 57 . But the bathos of verse , and the pinnacle of royal foolery , here attain such ridiculous perfection , that the reader will now pergeiye we have done wrong in considering this as a mawkish Manage ,, and will be unavoidably led to the conclusion / that the Author must have given that version of Louis as a bittet piece of satire both on the man and his office . But be this d& it may , there can be no doubt of the fact of his opinion touching the " fine carat of a crown / ' nor of the boldness whefewith it is expressed in this play . Such passages as the one we are about to give , are calculated to do immense service , by placing relative things in their proper li g ht , and coming from the stage , will do much towards the political education of the people . How such a passage came to pass the ordeal of the Licenser ,

    we can only account for in the difference between the new licenser and the canting rake who preceded him . How it came to pass the managerial authorities , may be accounted for on the probability that they did not understand its foroe , being quite indifferent to all such matters . We quite agree with the Examiner , that " Mr Macread y ' s delivery of it chilled every heart in the theatre , as a sudden touch of the coldest marble would have chilled every hand . His form seemed

    distending bfeyond its natural dimensions as he spoke , and long iftei he left the stage his voice continued to linger there , big with fate and death !" ' * Lbuts ( qsidty . Ife speaks as one inspired ! 1 ffiagtiforie . Awake f—Awake ! Srfeafc tn&igK thou art , awake the ^ from the dream rbat earth was made for kings—mankind for slaughter—*

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    70 Dramatic Literature *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/23/