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Drama

"in Italy may bir al from the Miracle Hay be disputed. The Late M: Watton its revival feroin

of Christ, reprevented in the year 1298 in Civita Vecchia. Had this ingenious Writer pursued the Enigning

might have des covered Miracle Ray's originating amongst the Fabliers Fradicals, are said to have given birth to the Freugh, Stage "were not only known, but relished to per"haps imitated - in Italy, in the "Dante, Petrarca, & Boccaccio" -Walmer's Mengir on

whose rude rusions (which