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NYWJ.742.017
1 Mar 1742:21 (431)
London . . . 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 eunuchs, and foreign
buffoons?
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