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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "As 10 May But Decius boman"/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: A Grand Selection 0 [of Sacred Music From The Works Of handel, Chiefly Performed At westminster-abbey At The handel Commemoration, 26 May 1784]; Messiah

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthem, God save the King

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Music: End II: concerto on the violin-Mme Gautherot

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: End: The Drunken Swiss-West (1st appearance in London these 10 years), Miss Stageldoir

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Entertainment: Vocal Imitations, as17890515, but Mrs Wrighten (+World, 24 May); End: Imitation [of Mrs Siddons in the "ring" speech, Act II. ii (World, 23 May) from Isabella]-Mrs Wells

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Mainpiece Title: Redemption, A Sacred Oratorio Selected From The Great And Favourite Works Of handel That Were Performed At His Commemoration, In westminster-abbey And At The pantheon On 26 And 27 May 1784 0; Messiah

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 1

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 2

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 3

Music: As17900219

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Song: End I afterpiece: Tho' Bacchus may boast (composed by Shield)-Duffey; End II: Mad Tom (composed by Purcell)-Duffey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: End: The Jockey Dance-[See17910502 and 7 May]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption, Selected From The Great And Favourite Works Of handel That Were Performed In westminster-abbey And At The pantheon [on 26 And 27 May 1784] 0; Messiah; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 1

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 2

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 3

Music: End: concerto on the hautboy-W. Parke; End II: concerto violin-Master Clement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: Tippoo Saib

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Song: In 2nd Piece:as in 3rd piece, 10 June Poor Orra tink on Yanco dear-Mrs Mountain; The Gallant Soldier born to Arms-Incledon

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Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for a Coxcomb; or, The Beau Bedevil'd

Song: In 3rd piece: will be introduced the following Favorite songs: When virtue forms-Mrs Davis; The Bottle-Davies; The Pleasures of the Chace-Incledon; Farewell each Tonish Life-Munden; Bucket of Water, 'Tis a mighty fine thing-Johnstone; Kitty Grogan, Tho' I'm no dancing master-Johnstone; Anna's Love-Incledon; The Pig, You all must have heard-Fawcett; To-morrow, In the downhill of life-Darley; You are aw nodding-Mrs Harlowe; Coach box, You may feast your ears-Cubitt

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Mainpiece Title: May Day; Or, The Little Gipsey

Afterpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17921116

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prisoner At Large

Afterpiece Title: THE AGREEABLE SURPRISE

Afterpiece Title: THE FARMER

Song: In the course of the evening Dr Grigsby's Tippety Witchet by Fawcett [sec CG, 16 May]

Monologue: 1794 08 23 A new Occarimlal Address in the Character of Trudge [in INKLE AND YARICO] by Fawcett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bank Note; Or, Lessons For Ladies

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Prize; or, May-Day Wedding

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: 2nd piece to conclude with: a Garland Dance (composed by Byrn)-Byrn, Mlle St.Amand, Mme Rossi

Song: Incidental to 1st piece: The Irishman's Peep at the Continent-Johnstone; End II: Old Towler-Incledon; In course 2nd piece: New Ballad-Mrs Martyr; Fat Dolly-Munden; Battle Song-Bowden; Let us love and let us drink-Munden; Bowden, Mrs Martyr; Teddy O'Shaughnessey's History-Johnstone; When 'tis Night and the Mid@Watch is come, Admiral Benbow-Incledon; Now landed from the Ocean-

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Mainpiece Title: Alceste

Dance: As17950430, but "By the indisposition of Mme DelCaro, the younger Hilligsberg played Virginie; and we had therefore the; Pas Russe- instead of the hornpipe" (Morning Chronicle, 18 May)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: British Fortitude and Hibernian Friendship; or, An Escape from France

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Faustus

Song: End I 1st piece: The Storm-Incledon; End II: The Description of the Battle of La Hogue, Thursday in the Morn the Nineteenth of May-Incledon (1st time); In course: Four and Twenty Fidlers-Munden; In 2nd piece: I was called knowing Joey-Munden; At dawn of Life our Vows were plighted-Mrs Mountain; The turban'd Turk who scorns the world-Johnstone; When foaming waves contrary beat-Incledon; To be sure I don't love in my heart-Johnstone; Our simple tale thus ended-Incledon, Johnstone, Munden, Mrs Mountain

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Mainpiece Title: The Travellers In Switzerland

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Afterpiece Title: Arrived at Portsmouth

Dance: 1st piece to conclude with: The Savoyard-Byrn, Holland, Mlle St.Amand; In 3rd piece: a New Dance-Byrn, Holland, Mlle St.Amand

Song: End I: The Sea Storm-Incledon; In 3rd piece: We've bade the restless seas adieu-; O why to be happy, as17960314With Rosabel what joy to stray-Townsend; Here we laugh and work together-; With pride we steer'd for England's coast-Incledon; When love was a stranger-Mrs Mountain; The seaman who of wars may tell-Incledon, Bowden; Rule Britannia-; In course: Old Towler-Incledon; an entire New Song-Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Modista Raggiratrice

Dance: Between Acts: a new Dance in the Scotch style, Little Peggy's Love (1st time)-Didelot, Gentili, Mlle Parisot, Mme Bossi, Mlle Barre, Mme Rose, Mme Hilligsberg [the Pantomime and Principal Steps by Didelot [with music by Bossi]; End Opera: L'Amant Statue (1st time, by Onorati) [with music by Bossi]-Didelot, Gentili, Mlle Parisot, Mme Bossi, Mlle Barre, Mme Rose, Mme Hilligsberg [dl playbill of 25 May adds: Mme Vidi]

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Song: End IV: Listen to the Voice of Love-Master Welsh

Music: End: A Lilliputian Performance-; consisting of a Quintetto for First Violin-Master Pinto, aged 11 years; Second Violin-Master Sharp, aged 11; Violoncello-Master Ware, aged 10; Piano Forte-Miss Hoffman, aged 9; Voice-Master Welsh. The Musick composed expressly for the Occasion by Dr Arnold

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Mainpiece Title: They've Bit The Old One; Or, The Scheming Butler

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: May-Day; or, The Little Gipsey

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: an Epilogue Address portraying the Characteristic Jealousies of the Spaniard, the Italian, the Dutchman, the Frenchman, & the Englishman,-Mrs Mattocks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Matrimonio Segreto

Dance: End I: Hylas et Temire-; End: Honi Soit qui mal y Pense; ou, La Fille Mal Gardee=-[see dl, 8 May]; Minuet of Four-Mme Rose, Didelot, Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

Entertainment: Monologue End: Epilogue pourtraying Characteristick Jealousies of the Spaniard the Italian the Dutchman the Frenchman and the Englishman [by Garrick]-Mrs Mattocks [see cg, 1 May 1798]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples

Afterpiece Title: St

Song: End: the following songs illustrative of the Whims and Sports of Bartholomew Fair: Raro Raro-Delpini; The Wind blew fresh and fair-Townsend; By the gaily circling Glass-Linton; a New Song (composed by Walsh, and written in Commemoration of His Majesty's Providential Escape [from assassination; see dl, 15 May])-Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: New Comic Dance, call'd The May@Game-Mathews, Mrs Addison; also a Dew Pastoral Dance call'd Hymen's Temple, or The Shepherd's Wedding-Cooke, Janeton Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison, Master Harrison