08 January 1755

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Theatre: Covent Garden
Theatrical Season: 1754-1755
Volume: 4
Comments: Benefit for the Lying-In Hospital for Married Women, in Brownlow Street, Long Acre. [On 18 Jan. appeared in the Public Advertiser the Occasional Epilogue]: @After this bounteous, well-intentioned play@You think I'm come to banter all away;@To mock the soft compassion in the breast,@And turn at once all charity to jest...@Tir'd of such arts, I'm now so serious grown@I mean to speak plain sentiments alone.@ [Then addressing each part of the house, with appropriate comment--and a good deal of banter--she praises marriage as an institution, and this hospital as an aid.] @Methinks I spy some amorous pairs above [to upper gallery]@Drawn here by tender flames of mutual love.@Close pack'd they sit,-and woo with secret squeeze,@With conscious elbows, sympathetic knees.@Go on my friends,-true to connubial law,@And leave to us the Women in the straw.

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    *p?cg The Suspicious Husband. As 4 Oct. 1754, but [with an% <i>Occasional Epilogue</i>-Mrs Woffington. *a?cg The Cheats of Scapin. Scapin-Shuter[, first time%; Thrifty-Bennet; Gripe-Costollo; Leander-Gibson; Octavian-Anderson; Shift-Dunstall; Sly-R. Smith; Clara-Mrs Vincent; Lucia-Mrs Baker. *c?cg Benefit for the <i>Lying-In Hospital for Married Women</i>, in <i>Brownlow Street</i>, <i>Long Acre</i>. [On 18 Jan. appeared in the <i>Public Advertiser</i> the <i>Occasional Epilogue</i>]: @After this bounteous, well-intentioned play@You think I'm come to banter all away;@To mock the soft compassion in the breast,@And turn at once all charity to jest...@Tir'd of such arts, I'm now so serious grown@I mean to speak plain sentiments alone.@ [Then addressing each part of the house, with appropriate comment--and a good deal of banter--she praises marriage as an institution, and this hospital as an aid.] @Methinks I spy some amorous pairs above [to upper gallery]@Drawn here by tender flames of mutual love.@Close pack'd they sit,-and woo with secret squeeze,@With conscious elbows, sympathetic knees.@Go on my friends,-true to connubial law,@And leave to us the Women in the straw.@
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    *p1755 01 08 cg The Suspicious Husband. ^As17541004^, but with an <i>Occasional Epilogue</i>-Mrs Woffington.*a1755 01 08 cg The Cheats of Scapin. Scapin-Shuter, first time; Thrifty-Bennet; Gripe-Costollo; Leander-Gibson; Octavian-Anderson; Shift-Dunstall; Sly-R. Smith; Clara-Mrs Vincent; Lucia-Mrs Baker.*c1755 01 08 cg Benefit for the <i>Lying-In Hospital for Married Women</i>, in <i>Brownlow Street</i>, <i>Long Acre</i>. [On 18 Jan. appeared in the <i>Public Advertiser</i> the <i>Occasional Epilogue</i>]: @After this bounteous, well-intentioned play@You think I'm come to banter all away;@To mock the soft compassion in the breast,@And turn at once all charity to jest...@Tir'd of such arts, I'm now so serious grown@I mean to speak plain sentiments alone.@ [Then addressing each part of the house, with appropriate comment--and a good deal of banter--she praises marriage as an institution, and this hospital as an aid.] @Methinks I spy some amorous pairs above [to upper gallery]@Drawn here by tender flames of mutual love.@Close pack'd they sit,-and woo with secret squeeze,@With conscious elbows, sympathetic knees.@Go on my friends,-true to connubial law,@And leave to us the Women in the straw.@
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    Event: 27370 | 17550108 | cg | Benefit for the <i>Lying-In Hospital for Married Women</i>, in <i>Brownlow Street</i>, <i>Long Acre</i>. [On 18 Jan. appeared in the <i>Public Advertiser</i> the <i>Occasional Epilogue</i>]: @After this bounteous, well-intentioned play@You think I'm come to banter all away;@To mock the soft compassion in the breast,@And turn at once all charity to jest...@Tir'd of such arts, I'm now so serious grown@I mean to speak plain sentiments alone.@ [Then addressing each part of the house, with appropriate comment--and a good deal of banter--she praises marriage as an institution, and this hospital as an aid.] @Methinks I spy some amorous pairs above [to upper gallery]@Drawn here by tender flames of mutual love.@Close pack'd they sit,-and woo with secret squeeze,@With conscious elbows, sympathetic knees.@Go on my friends,-true to connubial law,@And leave to us the Women in the straw.
    Performance: 55111 | 27370 | p | The Suspicious Husband | As17541004, but with an <i>Occasional Epilogue</i>-Mrs Woffington.
    AsSeeDate: 55111 | cg | p | As | 17541004
    Cast:
    91030 | 55111 | with an <i>Occasional Epilogue</i> | Mrs Woffington.
    388420 | 55111 | Ranger | Dyer
    388421 | 55111 | Strictland | Ridout
    388422 | 55111 | Frankly | Ryan
    388423 | 55111 | Bellamy | Gibson
    388424 | 55111 | Meggot | Cushing
    388425 | 55111 | Simson | Wignell
    388426 | 55111 | Tester | Collins
    388427 | 55111 | Buckle | Anderson
    388428 | 55111 | Lucetta | Mrs Pitt
    388429 | 55111 | Mrs Strictland | Mrs Barrington
    388430 | 55111 | Jacyntha | Mrs Vincent
    388431 | 55111 | Clarinda | Mrs Hamilton
    388432 | 55111 | With a <i>Country dance</i> | the character of the play.
    Performance: 55112 | 27370 | a | The Cheats of Scapin | Scapin-Shuter, first time; Thrifty-Bennet; Gripe-Costollo; Leander-Gibson; Octavian-Anderson; Shift-Dunstall; Sly-R. Smith; Clara-Mrs Vincent; Lucia-Mrs Baker.
    Cast:
    91031 | 55112 | Scapin | Shuter, first time
    91032 | 55112 | Thrifty | Bennet
    91033 | 55112 | Gripe | Costollo
    91034 | 55112 | Leander | Gibson
    91035 | 55112 | Octavian | Anderson
    91036 | 55112 | Shift | Dunstall
    91037 | 55112 | Sly | R. Smith
    91038 | 55112 | Clara | Mrs Vincent
    91039 | 55112 | Lucia | Mrs Baker.

Mainpiece

Comments:
As17541004, but with an Occasional Epilogue-Mrs Woffington.
Cast:

Afterpiece

Comments:
Scapin-Shuter, first time; Thrifty-Bennet; Gripe-Costollo; Leander-Gibson; Octavian-Anderson; Shift-Dunstall; Sly-R. Smith; Clara-Mrs Vincent; Lucia-Mrs Baker.
Cast:

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