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PIPPA PASSES;

A DRAMA.

1841.

I DEDICATE MY BEST INTENTIONS, IN THIS POEM,
ADMIRINGLY TO THE AUTHOR OF “ION,”
AFFECTIONATELY TO MR. SERGEANT TALFOURD.

R. B.
London: 1841.

PERSONS.

  • Pippa.
  • Ottima.
  • Sebald.
  • Foreign Students.
  • Gottlieb.
  • Schramm.
  • Jules.
  • Phene.
  • Austrian Police.
  • Bluphocks.
  • Luigi and his Mother.
  • Poor Girls.
  • Monsignor and his Attendants.
INTRODUCTION.

New Year’s Day at Asolo in the Trevisan.

Scene.A large mean airy chamber. A girl, Pippa,
from the Silk-mills, springing out of bed.


Day!
Faster and more fast,
O’er night’s brim, day boils at last: