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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "Trick upon Trick"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount

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Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of The Unnatural Parents; Or, The Fair Maid Of The West: Giving An Account How They Had Two Daughters, One Of Which They Fondly Lov'd, And The Other They Could Not Endure; So By Their Barbarity She Was Forced To Leave Her Father's House And Seek Her Fortune: With The Comical Humours Of Trusty, Her Father's Man, That Was Sent In Pursuit After Her, Who, In His Travels, Met With Three Witches That Hoisted Him Upon A Distaff, And Sent Him Flying Home Over The Houses

Dance: DDance-Wild Cats of the Woods

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Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: Mr Lally's young son, a little Girl (who have never appear'd upon any Stage before)

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Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda: With The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Afterpiece Title: with a Gwith a Grotesque part: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

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Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: DDutch Skipper-Sandham; Two Pierrots-Burny, Eaton

Song: Miss Thornowets

Music: A Lesson on the Harpsicord upon the Stage-Burk Thumoth, age 13; Also a Trumpet Piece called Sellano-; accompanied by the rest of the Musick-

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Music: SSee@larce A Trumpet Farce-Burk Thumoth; accompanied-the rest of the Musick upon the Stage

Song: new Song, called Myra's Choice , to the Tune of the White Joke,-Mr Russell who sung Hunter at the Hay-Market

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Mainpiece Title: Rape Upon Rape; Or, The Justice Caught In His Own Trap

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Mainpiece Title: Rape Upon Rape

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Mainpiece Title: Rape Upon Rape

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Music: End II: A Voluntary on the Welch Harp-Jones; III: A Trumpet Piece call'd See@larco@a Veasi-Burk Thumoth; IV: A Solo-Ravenscroft upon the Stage; accompany'd by the Harpsichord-

Dance: I: The Yellow Joke, as17300629 V: Shepherds Holiday-Burny, Sandham, Eaton, Mrs Haughton, Mrs Mountfort, Miss Sandham

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Mainpiece Title: Rape Upon Rape

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Mainpiece Title: Rape Upon Rape

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

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Mainpiece Title: Rape Upon Rape

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

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Mainpiece Title: Rape Upon Rape

Afterpiece Title: Jack the Giant Killer

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Mainpiece Title: Rape Upon Rape

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Adventure

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Mainpiece Title: The Mad Tom Of Bedlam

Dance: MMad Dance-; Dutch Skipper-Sandham upon his Toes; Drunken Man-Wilcox

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: SScaramouch-Sandham

Song: AA Satyr Upon all Trades-Rosco, Pearce; The Trifle-Stoplaer

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Mainpiece Title: The Contrast; A Tragi-comical Rehearsal Of Two Modern Plays: Match Upon Match; Or, No Match At All, And The Tragedy Of Epaminodas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: SSmug Upon Tuesday in the Character of a Country Girl-Mrs Roberts

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Burny, Miss Wherrit

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Mainpiece Title: The Tragedy Of Tragedies

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: new Overture with Kettle Drums and Trumpets by Seedo-; I: The 5th Concerto of Vivaldi, upon the Stage-; II: The 8th Concerto of Michael Angelo Corelli-; III: Handel's Water Musick with French Horns-; Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Ben. Baker

Song: I: Rosy Bowers-Miss Raftor; End Afterpiece: Ellis Roberts

Dance: II: Harlequins-Lally Jr, Miss Brett; In III: A new Grand Heroic Comic Dance, proper to the Play-; End Afterpiece: The Masqueraders-Essex, Thurmond, Houghton, Tench, Mrs Walter, Mrs D'Lorme, Miss Mears, Miss Williams

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Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

Music: A Solo upon the Stage-Eversman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Entertainment: TThe Crowing of the Cock-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Dance: new dance (by Dew dance (by Desire)-Jones to the 5th Concerto of Vivaldi, which he accompanies himself upon the Violin, the first time of his performing it in public

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Music: A Piece of Musick upon the Common Flute by a Gentleman, composed by Sig Valesciene

Dance: Two Pierrots by F. Tench and Davenport. Scotch Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. The Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann

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Mainpiece Title: Agnes De Challiot: Being A Critick And Paradox Upon Ines De Castro

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin and Scaramouch Deserters

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Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: Fame; or, Queen Elizabeth's Trumpets; or, Never plead's Hopes of being a Lord Chancellor; or, The Lover turn'd Philosopher; or, The Miser's Resolve upon the Lowering of Interest