ACT II.

_The scene changes to a large dining room. The table furnished with

bowls, bottles, glasses, and cards.----The Group appear sitting

round in a restless attitude. In one corner of the room is discovered

a small cabinet of books, for the use of the studious and

contemplative; containing, Hobbs's Leviathan, Sipthorp's Sermons,

Hutchinson's History, Fable of the Bees, Philalethes on Philanthropy,

with an appendix by Massachusettensis, Hoyl on Whist, Lives of the

Stuarts, Statutes of Henry the Eighth, and William the Conqueror,

Wedderburne's speeches, and acts of Parliament, for 1774._

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