Julian the Apostate And the Duke of Mercia

of my Poem adopted the ideas of any other writer. I have certainly had no model present to my imagination : and have only from a distance, and with reverence, regarded those admirable writers who were the founders, and remain the glory, of our dramatic literature. In my general sketch only have I sought to adhere to history. I have varied from it in many details. For instance, the mode of attack by which Maojamalcha was reduced, I have applied to Perisabor; principally, I believe, because the former name is not of easy pronunciation. THE DUKE OF MERCIA. STEPHEN EDWAKD RICE, Esq. fyc. fyc. Sfc. AS A MEMORIAL OF GRATITUDE FOR AN INESTIMABLE GIFT, THIS DKAMA IS DEDICATED BY HIS SON-IN-LAW, THE AUTHOR. chapter{Section 4PERSONS OF THE DRAMA. Edmund, surnamed Ironside, King of England. Canute, son of Sweyn, King of the Danes. Edeic Stbeon, Duke of Mercia, - / Brothers-m-law Uthred, Earl of Northumberland, of Edmund. Eustace, Earl of Bulloign, J Edwt, surnamed The Churl, Brother of Edmund. Ethelmae, Earl of Cornwall, friend of Edric. Osmer, the Bastard. Moecae, Sigifeeth, Danish Lords, 1 Friends of Fbithegjst, a Saxon Lord, ) Edmund. Gothmund, Turkill, Danish Nobles, Officers of Canute. Anlaffe,' J Emma, Queen of Ethelred the Second, King of England. Algitha. Sweyn, King of the Danes.') I In the Introductory Gunilda, his Daughter. Scenes only. A Lady, attendant upon her.) Saxon and Danish ...