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The 18th-century masques were less frequently staged.
" Rule, Britannia!
" started out as part of Alfred, a masque about Alfred the Great co-written by James Thomson and David Mallet which was first performed at Cliveden, country house of Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Performed to celebrate the third birthday of Frederick's daughter Augusta.
It remains among the best-known British patriotic songs up to the present, while the masque of which it was originally part is only remembered by specialist historians.
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