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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: End II: a French Scaramouch-

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

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Dance: [By] 6 Companies of Rope Dancers; who] [are joyned in one, they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women, and Children, that could be found beyond the Seas, where will be performed such wonderful variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack Rope, the Sloaping Rope-; [you will see a wonderful Girl of 10 years of Age, who walk backward up the sloaping Rope-Girl of 10 years[, driving a Wheel-barrow behind her; [also you will see the Great Italian Master, who not only passes all that has yet been seen upon the low Rope, [but he Dances[ without a Pole upon the Head of a Mast [as high as the Booth will permit, and afterwards stands upon his Head on the same-Great Italian Master; [You will also be entertained with the many Conceits of an Italian Scaramouch, who Dances on the Rope [with 2 Children and a Dog in a Wheel-barrow, and a Duck on his Head-Italian Scaramouch

Dance: Such variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack/Rope, Tumbling, as has never been seen in this Fair before-

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Mainpiece Title: Rope Dancing

Entertainment: they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women and Children that can be found beyond the Seas, so that the World cannot parallize them for Dancing on the Low/Rope, Vaulting on the High/Rope, Walking on the Slack and Sloping Ropes-the Famous Company of Rope-Dancers out-doing all others to that Degree, that it has highly recommended them, both in Bartholomew Fair and May Fair last, to all the best persons of Quality in England. And by all are owned to be the only amazing Wonders of the World, in every thing they do: 'tis there you will see the Italian Scaramouch dancing on the Rope, wiph a Wheel-barrow before him, with two Children and a Dog in it, and with a Duck on his Head; who sings to the Company and causes much Laughter

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Entertainment: Several pretty Entertainments-

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Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Music: A piece of Instrumental Musick- to be perform'd on the Stage

Song: Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs; particularly a Two/part Song-Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell

Song: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-the Devonshire Girl; The Whip of Dunbyn-Claxton; a new Entry-Mrs Campion, others; A Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell; a new Scaramouch Man and Scaramouch Woman-Laferry, Mrs Lucas

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Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man-hater

Music: A Mask set to Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell-; Italian Sonatas-Gasperini

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Mainpiece Title: The History Of Bateman; Or, The Unhappy Marriage, With The Comical Humours Of Sparrow His Man

Entertainment: With variety of Scenes and Machines, Singing, Dancing- never seen before in the Fair

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: The Devonshire Girl

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Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man-hater

Music: With the Original Masque- , set to Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell

Dance: As17031019

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

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Mainpiece Title: The Libertine Destroy'd [don John]

Music: Italian sonatas for violin composed by Archangelo Corelli-Gasperini, others

Song: As17031102

Dance: Harlequin Man and Woman-Laferry, Mrs Bicknell; two new Entries-DuRuel

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: As17031012

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: As17040226

Song: As17040226

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Mainpiece Title: The Cautious Coxcomb

Music: Together with 3 several New Entertainments of Musick perform'd in Consort upon Hautboys Flutes and German Horns-7 young Men lately brought over by their Master the famous Godfrede Pepusch, Musician in Ordinary to his Majesty the King of Prussia. The Composition being made entirely new for that pupose by his Brother, that Eminent Master Mr John Christopher Pepusch

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Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Afterpiece Title: Aeneas and Dido

Dance: New Scotch dances-

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Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: duRuel; Miller's Dance-Pinkeman

Entertainment: And performing these several Performances, first an Organ with three Voices, then the Double Curtel, the Flute, the Bells, the Huntsman, the Horn, Pack of Dogs, all with his Mouth-Mr Clinch of Barnet; and an old Woman of Fourscore Years of Age nursing her Grand/Child all which he does open on the Stage-Mr Clinch; Next performing several Mimick Entertainments on the Ladder, first he stands on the top-round with a Bottle in one hand, and a Glass in the other, and drinks a Health; then plays several Tunes on the Violin, with fifteen other surprizing Performances which no man but himself can do-a Gentleman

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Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Song: A gentleman, his first on the stage

Dance: Harlequin Man and Woman-Laforest, Devonshire Girl; Quaker's Dance, Country Farmer's Daughter-Devonshire Girl