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Show DAVI hat W‘-'H-know B¢ Vil 56, With wi disfigureq i ook 2 very ( :GARRICK 11 enemy tocrueltyand.oppression.- The Dutchess of Braganza-is, a. ne female character, tha is to say, new to. the stage..|d real life sh possessed almost every virtue; with a hear devoted te thé Duke /She was a heroine o undaunted firmness, and an ardent lover of he dramatic sk country. . : Velasquez, the;Viceroy from: Spain heincidents a 1s represeénted in his true: colours; a: savag oven with th tyrant, above all laws human and.divine eetation is kep scene, in: which - he uses all his art to persuad wn into viole Ramirez, the priest drawn with Braganza, to murder'the Duke, is finely 1ma Wge Th Th -and spiritual advisér o gined. . The scheme proposed for that purpos the great is diabolical. - Velasquez gives the Confesso im by Yerto a poisoned wafer, and-orders him to administe chat wsally thout £ an afecton i3 eat?) it to Braganza as the last sacrament of th Roma church. A design so horrible neve before entered the heart of man a detestabl murder to be blended with an act of devotion VOL II I |