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SCENE TAKEN FROM THE NEW HARVARD EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

TEXAS THEODORE, Lover.

JULIA CHELSEA, Heroine from Lynn.

DINAH, Nurse to JULIA CHELSEA.

SCENE. - Blackstone Alley.

(Enter THEODORE playing a jews-harp, who sees JULIA seated at the window of a hen-coop, eating hoe-cake, and playing on the ozone. 1)

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THEO. There she is at the window,

While beneath thy window passing,

You stole my heart away.

JULIA. Vot ish de matter mit de vild vaves?

THEO. 'Tis night o'er the stormy waters.

JULIA. Where art thou now, my beloved?

Canst thou not come at my call?

THEO. (aside). I cannot call, for I haven't a pair.

JULIA. The man in the moon is looking.

THEO. Fair moon, to thee I sing.

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