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74 VENICE.
old Romans squeaking thro’ the Mouth
of an Eunuch, especially when they may
chuse a Subject out of Courts where Eu-
nuchs are really A&ors, or represent by
them any of the soft Asiatic Monarchs ?
The Opera that was most in Vogue,
during my Stay at Venice, was built on
the following Subject. C<efar and Scipio
are Rivals for Cato's Daughter. C<e-
far's first Words bid his Soldiers ssy, for
the Enemies are upon them. Si Leva
Cefare, e dice a Soldati. A la fugga. A'
lo Scampo. The Daughter gives the Pre-
ference to Cafar, which is made the
Occasion of Cato's Death. Before he
kills himself, you see him withdrawn in-
to his Library, where, among his Books,
I observed the Titles of Plutarch and
SsaJJo. After a short Soliloquy he strikes
himself with the Dagger that he holds
irt his Hand, but, being interrupted by
ohe of his Friends, he stabs him for his
Pains, and by the Violence of the Blow
unluckily breaks the Dagger on one of
his Ribs, so that he is forced todispatch
himself by tearing up his firfl: Wound.
This last Circumltance puts me in Mind
of a Contrivance in the Opera of St. An-
gelo, that was aCted at the same time.
The King of the Play endeavours at a
Rape, but the Poet being rgsolved to
' lave
^are8sotilenia
E
U:
sthis Her.".'
ipt Case-Knife
« sell the Lids I
it Snuggle, and
1 The J/a/im Pot
tadSmoorhnesu
Ricuhr
Jh are indeed $
Miiniriesare p(
s®ongthe//4/j
P^thatnevt
Cubing
• droPstveralo
^r in Whcr
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i '‘or Dr.
old Romans squeaking thro’ the Mouth
of an Eunuch, especially when they may
chuse a Subject out of Courts where Eu-
nuchs are really A&ors, or represent by
them any of the soft Asiatic Monarchs ?
The Opera that was most in Vogue,
during my Stay at Venice, was built on
the following Subject. C<efar and Scipio
are Rivals for Cato's Daughter. C<e-
far's first Words bid his Soldiers ssy, for
the Enemies are upon them. Si Leva
Cefare, e dice a Soldati. A la fugga. A'
lo Scampo. The Daughter gives the Pre-
ference to Cafar, which is made the
Occasion of Cato's Death. Before he
kills himself, you see him withdrawn in-
to his Library, where, among his Books,
I observed the Titles of Plutarch and
SsaJJo. After a short Soliloquy he strikes
himself with the Dagger that he holds
irt his Hand, but, being interrupted by
ohe of his Friends, he stabs him for his
Pains, and by the Violence of the Blow
unluckily breaks the Dagger on one of
his Ribs, so that he is forced todispatch
himself by tearing up his firfl: Wound.
This last Circumltance puts me in Mind
of a Contrivance in the Opera of St. An-
gelo, that was aCted at the same time.
The King of the Play endeavours at a
Rape, but the Poet being rgsolved to
' lave
^are8sotilenia
E
U:
sthis Her.".'
ipt Case-Knife
« sell the Lids I
it Snuggle, and
1 The J/a/im Pot
tadSmoorhnesu
Ricuhr
Jh are indeed $
Miiniriesare p(
s®ongthe//4/j
P^thatnevt
Cubing
• droPstveralo
^r in Whcr
*1??^ I
i '‘or Dr.