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SCENE 1.1. -A MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE, BUILT OF THIGH-BONES AND / DEATH'S-HEADS, AND TILED WITH SCALPS. OVER THE ALTAR THE STATUE OF / FAMINE, VEILED; A NUMBER OF BOARS, SOWS, AND SUCKING-PIGS, CROWNED / WITH THISTLE, SHAMROCK, AND OAK, SITTING ON THE STEPS, AND CLINGING / ROUND THE ALTAR OF THE TEMPLE.
Enter Swellfoot, in His Royal Robes, Without Perceiving the Pigs