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Burlesque Plays and Poems

Note 91 — ACT I.

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This doubt of the king puts me in mind of a passage in the "Captives," where the noise of feet is mistaken for the rustling of leaves:—

"Methinks I hear The sound of feet: No; 'twas the wind that shook yon cypress boughs."

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