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PG-P.735.029
25 Sep-2 Oct 1735:11,12,21,22,31 (356)
Remainder of The Toy-Shop, begun in our last.
Enter a young gentleman. [3 columns, text of play,
including the following references:]
Mast[er]. . . I have a ram's horn, one of those which help'd
to blow down the wall of Jericho. A lock of Sampson's hair,
tied up in a shred of Joseph's garment. With several other
Jewish antiquities, which I purchas'd of that people at a
great price. Then I have the tune which Orpheus play'd to
the Devil, when he charm'd back his wife.
. . . [12 lines]
I have the pitch pipe of Gracchus, the roman Orator, who,
being apt, in dispute to raise his voice too high, by
touching a certain soft note in this paper, would regulate
and keep it in a moderate key. . . [18 lines]
It is a very useful thing to have about one, either at
church or Play-house, or Westminster-Hall; at all, which
places a vast variety both of useful and diverting
experiments may be made with it. . . [13 lines, customer
inquires about children's upbringing.]
But the generality are so intirely taken up with the care of
little Master's complexion, his dress, his dancing, and such
like effeminacies, that they have not the least regard for
any internal accomplishment whatsoever.
. . . [1 column, ending with a tribute to the Master of the
Toy-shop:]
In this gay thoughtless age he'as found a way,
In trifling things just morals to convey.
'Tis his at once to please and to reform,
And give old satire a new pow'r to charm.
. . . [2 more lines]
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