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THE

MYSTERIOUS MOTHER.

A

TRAGEDY.

ACT the FIRST.

SCENE I.

A Platform before the Castle.

FLORIAN.What awful silence! How these antique towersAnd vacant courts chill the suspended soul,Till expectation wears the cast of fear;And fear, half-ready to become devotion,Mumbles a kind of mental orison,It knows not wherefore. What a kind of beingIs circumstance!I am a soldier, and were yonder battlementsGarnish'd with combatants, and cannon-mounted,My daring breast would bound with exultation,And glorious hopes enliven this drear scene.

Now

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