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 | | While these humble mimics of the drama are exhibiting their performances in one place, mountebanks of various grades, fire-eaters, necromancers, and rope-dancers, attract the gaze of the multitude by the sublimest efforts of their skill, and while looking thus with the stupid stare, more cunning knaves are artfully and industriously removing watches, pocket-books, &c. |
 | | We have not space to give a description of the other different apartments on this floor, all of which are of the most magnificent. |
 | | They were attended by sixty Seriviteurs; seven waited on the Prince, besides six of the King’s, and six of the Queen’s footmen, in their state liveries, with one man in a complete suit of antient armour. |
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