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Stuyvesant's proud will would not bend to circumstances, and, from the ramparts of the fort, he saw their preparations for attack, without in the least relenting, and when men, women and children, and even his beloved son Balthazzar, entreated him to surrender, that the lives and property of the citizens might be spared, he replied: "I had much rather be carried out dead."
"The oldest representation," he says, "given in a closed hall, with artificial light and with scenery, appears to have been that of the 'Calandra, a comedy which Balthazzar Peruzzi caused to be performed before Leo X in 1516 at the Château of St. Ange."
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