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Title: British theatre
Year: 1791 (1790s)
Authors: Bell, John, 1745-1831
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Publisher: London : J. Bell
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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braval thats my pretty dear! Now let a modern, modish fair appear; * No more of these old dcwdy maids and wives, * Tell how superior beings pass their lives. \Spfaks as Miss.\Till noon they sleep, from noon till night they dress.From night till morn they game it more or iessyNext night the same sweet course of joy run oer.Then (he night after as the night heforcyAnd the. night after that, encore, encore! (She comes forward.)Thus with our cards we shujle off all sorrow.To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morron !We deal apace, from youth snro our prime,To the last moonent of our tabby lime j EPILOGUE. 127 And all our yesterdays, from rout and drum.Have lighted fools with empty pockets home.Thus do our lives with rapture roll away,Not with the nonsense of our authors play;This is true life—true spirit—give it pjaise;Dont snarl and sigh for good Qu^een Besss days.For all you look so sour, and bend the brow,You all rejoice with me, youre living now. r»R ENt. KiWV Ijii AinL/E v^l^ Seoul
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Jiiijo: cy u/uz/ IcuL ^iiidmaja KIlslG CHARLES I TRAGEDY.By Mr. WILLIAM HAVARD. ADAPTED FOR THEATRICAL REPRESENTATION, AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRES-ROYAL,DRURY-LANE AND COVENT-GARDEN. REGULATED FROM THE PROMPT-BOOKS, By Permission of the Managers, The Lines cWtinguished by inverted Commas are omitted iothe Represenratior... LONDON: Printed for the Proprietors, under the Direfiion of John Bell, IDritis!) Hibrarp, Strand,Sooksellgr to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. WDCCXCIII. to HER. GRACE THE DUTCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH, MADAM, Addresses, unauthorised by merit, are too fre^quenty and (ivhat should be more surprising) oftensuccessful, I would ninllingly approach in what I think the bestshape, and choose rather to appear dressed in the opi-nion of the town, than my own. I ha-ve been fa^voured with the geyseral approbation yyet am still conscious of ^weakness, and ^nonv notwhere to sue more properly for proteSJion, than to yourGrace-f belie<ve this, Madam, when I assure you, thatJ

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