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BNL.742.001
21-28 Jan 1742:11 (1975)
London, Nov. 7. Last Saturday the operas began in the Hay-
market; but the principal singer and principal dancer did
not perform. There was a prodigious audience, and a
prodigious expence; for it is said the whole charge of the
operas, for six months, will come to upwards of 16,000 l ---
Is not Britain then in fine state, when notwithstanding our
taxes, we can fling away such a sum on a parcel of
squeaking, capering, fiddling Italian enuchs, and foreign
buffoons?
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