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body ever paid half a crown to gape at.—List! list! he's roaring again.
(Blount's voice heard as before.)

THIRD SERVANT.

Well; I must speak to my master, be the cost what it may.

SECOND SERVANT.

Come along, then.[Exeunt.

SCENE V.

The grand Library; Blount is discovered standing on a platform, with a table before him and his MS. oration in his hand, surrounded by Lord and Lady Worrymore, Lady Shrewdly, Miss Frankland, Clermont, &c, &c., while a general murmur of applause is heard, as the scene opens.

BLOUNT (in a low voice, as if much exhausted).

Pardon me for a moment. (Takes a glass of water from the table and drinks it slowly.)

LADY WORRYMORE (running about from one person to another).

LADY WORRYMORE.

Was there ever any thing so eloquent?—Is it not sublime?—And you love poetry, Lady