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PJ.767.027
26 Feb 1767:33 (1264)
By authority. By the American Company, at the new theatre,
in Southwark. On Friday, the 20th of February, will be
presented a comedy, written by Congreve, called
Love for Love, with the humours of Ben the Sailor.
Valentine by Mr. Douglass, Ben, (with a song in character)
by Mr. Hallam, Sir Sampson Legend by Mr. Tomlinson,
Foresight by Mr. Morris, Scandal by Mr. Allyn, Tattle by
Mr. Wall, Jeremy by Mr. Godwin, Buckram by Mr. Greville,
Angelica by Miss Hallam, Mrs. Frail by Mrs. Douglass, Mrs.
Foresight by Mrs. Wall, Nurse by Mrs. Harman, Miss Prue by
Miss Cheer.
With entertainments, viz. in act III, a hornpipe by Mr.
Mathews.
End of the play, a comic dance by Mr. Godwin.
To which will be added, a pastoral farce, called
Damon and Phillida.
To begin exactly at six o'clock---Vivant Rex & Regina.
No persons can possibly be admitted behind the scenes.
Tickets are sold at the London coffee-house, at Mr.
Frauncis's in Water-Street, at Mr. Hawkins's in Walnut-
Street, and of Mrs. Scott in Lombard-Street; where places
for the boxes may be had.
Box 7s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 3s.
*Mrs. Congreve's comedies are allowed to abound with genuine
wit and true humour; but, in compliance with the licentious
taste of the times in which they were written, the author
has in some places given the [?] to his wanton muse, and
deviated from those rules a more refined age, and chaste
stage require: The reviver of this play, has taken the
freedom to crop such luxuriances, and expunge every passage
that might be offensive either to decency or good manners.
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