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took all the singers and the actors were left at Drury Lane. Lindsey joined John
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English. She and Leveridge appeared again in the first performance of ''Rosamund'' (again) by Clayton. One source reports this as "the first" all-sung opera in English. Lindsey and Leveridge provided a comic sub-plot. Leveridge played a pimp and Lindsey
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