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RETAINED FOR THE DEFENCE

A Farce, IN ONE ACT.

BY

JOHN OXENFORD, ESQ.,

AUTHOR OF

Twice Killed, A Day Well Spent, A Family Failing, Dice of Death, Only a Halfpenny, Reigning Favourite, Rape of the Lock, My Fellow Clerk, I and My Double, A Quiet Day, No Followers, What have I done? Porter’s Knot, &c. &c.

THOMAS HAILES LACY, 89, STRAND, (Opposite Southampton Street, Covent Garden Market), LONDON.

RETAINED FOR THE DEFENCE.

First performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, on Monday, May 23rd, 1859.