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PERCY.

A TRAGEDY,
IN FIVE ACTS.

BY MRS. HANNAH MORE.

CORRECTLY GIVEN,
AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRES ROYAL.

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REMARKS.


This tragedy, in which Mrs. Hannah More is supposed to have been
assisted by Garrick, was produced at Covent Garden Theatre, in 1778,
with success; and revived, in 1818, at the same Theatre.

The feuds of the rival houses of Percy and of Douglas have furnished
materials for this melancholy tale, in which Mrs. More[1] has embodied
many judicious sentiments and excellent passages, producing a forcible
lesson to parental tyranny. The