Excerpt from La Gazza Ladra; The Thieving Magpie: A Semi-Serious Opera, in Two ActsThe Magistrate of the village fell in love with her, and endeavoured by all peaceful means to induce her to love him; but in vain.There was in the house of Fabrizio a Magpie, who had stolen a sil ver fork, the loss of which had been attributed to N inetta.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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