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then at Windsor-she married Centlivre who was one of the Queen's Cooks-the precise time is uncertain. Nov. 28. At the bottom of the bill-Note that Johnson was last night engaged to act in this Theatre only. Essex = Essex Wilks: South

29. Unhappy Favourite.

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ampton Mills: Burleigh Keen: Queen Elizabeth Mrs. Barry: Rutland Mrs. Bracegirdle.

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Dec. 2. Committee. Teague Bowen: Obediah = Johnson: Col. Careless Wilks: Col. Blunt = Mills: Abel = Bullock: Ruth Mrs. Barry: Mrs. Day Mrs. Leigh: Arbella Mrs. Bracegirdle.

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3. Volpone. Volpone Mills: Mosca Wilks: Corbaccio Johnson: Voltore Keen: Corvino = Cibber: Sir Politick Wou'dbe = Norris: Lady Wou'dbe Mrs Leigh: Celia Mrs. Oldfield.

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5. She wou'd if she cou'd. Sir Oliver Cockwood

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Norris: Sir Joslin Jolley Underhill Courtall= Wilks: Freeman Mills: Lady Cockwood Mrs. Barry: Gatty Mrs. Bracegirdle: Ariana is omitted Mrs. Sentry Mrs. Leigh.

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6. Ambitious Step-Mother as originally.

7. Never acted there, Tender Husband. Humphry Gubbin=Cibber: Mrs. Clerimont Mrs. Bradhaw: Fainlove Mrs. Porter: Aunt Mrs. Leigh: -rest as originally.

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10. Hamlet Betterton: King = Keen: Horatio =Verbruggen: Laertes Booth Ophelia = Mrs. Bracegirdle.

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11. Confederacy. Moneytrap = Norris: Gripe = Bowen -rest as originally.

13. Northern Lass. Sir Philip Luckless = Wilks: Tridewell Mills: Anvil Bowen: Howdee = Cibber: |=

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14. Comical Revenge. Dufoy Bowen: Sir Frederick Frolick=Wilks: Sir Nicholas Cully= Norris Palmer - Bullock: Wheedle Keen: Col.

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Bruce Verbruggen: Lord Beaufort Boman: Louis =Booth: the Widow Mrs. Oldfield: Graciana and Aurelia are omitted.

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16. Never acted, Almyna, or the Arabian Vow. Caliph Almanzor = Betterton: Abdalla = Wilks : Grand Vizier Keen: Chief of the Dervis = Bowman: Almyna (daughter to the Vizier) Mrs. Barry: Zoradia (her sister) = Mrs. Bracegirdle: By reason of the extraordinary charge for habits, Boxes 5s-Pit 3s1st Gallery 28-Upper Gallery 1s-acted about 3 times-Almanzor, having found his wife guilty of adultery, had made a solemn Vow, that any woman whom he might in future espouse, should be put to death on the following morning-several unfortunate females had been sacrificed in this manner-in other respects the Caliph is a worthy character-in the 1st act, he adopts his brother Abdalla, for his successorAbdalla requests his permission to marry Almyna— Almanzor grants his request but with reluctance, as he has a very bad opinion of the whole female sexAbdalla had been in love with Zoradia, but on the return of Almyna from Ægypt, where she had been educated, he transferred his affections to Almyna— Zoradia had carefully concealed her passion for Abdalla from her friends-but in the 2d act, Almyna by her importunities extorts a confession from her Almyna is very desirous of being married to the Caliph, in the hope of being able to prevail on him to break his Vow-the Caliph, on seeing Almyna, falls in love with her she is however ordered to ex

ecution in the usual manner—just as the Mutes are going to strangle her, Almanzor interposes, it not having been his intention that she should be really killed-in the mean time Abdalla attempts to rescue Almyna by force-he is wounded by the VizierZoradia is accidentally wounded by Abdalla-the play concludes with their death-on the whole this is not a bad T.-it is attributed to Mrs. Manley, but the author is spoken of in the Epilogue as a man-the plot is evidently founded on the beginning of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments-Mrs. Manley in the preface acknowledges that she borrowed something of a hint from them.

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27. London Cuckolds. Ramble Verbruggen: Townly Husband: Doodle Johnson: Wiseacre = Bullock Dashwell Bowen: Arabella Mrs. Bradshaw: Eugenia = Mrs. Porter: Engine Mrs. Leigh. 30. Rival Queens. Alexander Verbruggen : Clytus = Booth: Statira Mrs. Bracegirdle: Roxana - Mrs. Barry.

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Jan. 1. Never acted there, Silent Woman. Morose Betterton: Sir Amorous La Foole Bullock: Truewit Wilks: Otter Fairbank: Sir John Daw= Cibber: Cutbeard Norris: Dauphine =Booth: Clerimont Mills: Silent Woman Mrs. Oldfield.

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4. Never acted there, Wit without Money-this C. as acted at the Hay. (with alterations and amendments by some persons of quality) was printed without a date-it seems to have come out on this evening -the alterations are not material, and consist of slight changes in the dialogue, some of which are for

the worse the whole is printed as prose-it is dedicated to Newman the Prompter, who is said to have "once belonged to a house (D. L.) where vivitur ingenio was the motto, till sound got the better of sense, and turned it out of doors-he was now where Wit was encouraged, and the Player reaped the fruits of his labour, without toiling for those, who had always been the oppressors of the stage"-see May 25, for the characters.

9. She wou'd if she cou'd. Sir Joslin Jolley = Bullock.

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11. Hamlet Wilks: 1st Gravedigger Johnson. 14. For the encouragement of the Comedians acting in the Hay., and to enable them to keep the diversion of plays under a separate interest from Operas By Subscription-Julius Cæsar. Brutus = Betterton Cassius = Verbruggen: Antony-Wilks : Julius Cæsar Booth: Octavius- Mills :

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Keen: Decius-Husband: Cinna (probably the Poet, not the Conspirator) =Bowen: Ligarius=Boman : Plebeians Johnson, Bullock, Norris and Cross: Calphurnia Mrs. Barry: Portia Mrs. Bracegirdle: -with a new Prologue-Boxes opened to the pit, and none admitted without subscribers' tickets-1st. Gallery 2s. upper Gallery 1s.

Lord Halifax proposed a subscription for reviving 3 plays of the best authors with the full strength of the company; and by his influence it was soon completed-every subscriber was to have 3 Tickets for the first day of each play for his single payment of 3 Guineas. (Cibber.)

17. Sir Courtly Nice. Testimony=Johnson.

18. Man of the Mode. Medley-Mills: Old Bellair Norris: Young Bellair Booth.

20. Rover. Willmore-Verbruggen: Blunt-Underhill: Hellena Mrs. Bracegirdle: Angellica =Mrs. Barry Florinda Mrs. Boman.

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21. By Subscription. King and no King.

25. Indian Emperour. Montezuma = Betterton : Cortez Mills: Guyomar Booth: Odmar=Keen: Almeria Mrs. Barry: Cydaria = Mrs. Porter: Alibech Mrs. Boman.

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28. Othello Betterton: Iago Verbruggen: Cassio Booth Desdemona Mrs. Bracegirdle.

29. Spanish Fryar. Torrismond Booth: Lorenzo=Verbruggen.

Feb. 1. Never acted there, Aurenge-Zebe.

3. Adventures of five Hours.

Don Henrique= Mills: Don Antonio Betterton: Don Octavio = Booth: Don Carlos = Boman: Camilla Mrs. Barry :

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4. Never acted, Marriage a la Mode, or the Comical Lovers-by Subscription-Celadon = Cibber: Palamede = Wilks: Rhodophil Booth: Melantha Mrs. Bracegirdle: Florimel Mrs. Oldfield: Doralice Mrs. Porter :-this play consists of the comic scenes of Dryden's Marriage a la Mode and Secret Love put together the plan of consolidating these two underplots was a very good one, and effected by Cibber-this alteration seems to have been acted but 3 times the first season.

The Editor of the B. D. says there are but 6 characters in this play—if instead of looking at the D. P.

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