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1 nv«c plays are ro he pm of the entertainment of the gay wo. Id in the country this vaca-non. Loul Derby ami his company, like the cele-rate Hodon, are to ftroll from one county toanother, tv,rh antic tricks to divert the public—a trade lomeu'hat belovv the dignity of an amient Houfe of Nobility. Mifc Farrcn at humble di Uncc, ,s to fupenmend the drcfTes and rchear-. , of the women, and to breakfaft, dine, and fup with the Houfekeepcr, and my Lady's Maid in the rlouickeeper’s room.rrThc Cia,ufe Pr‘vflte pJays. is owing to theunagreeable neceffity that people of fafluon found m a public Plav-Houfc, of mixing with the Urumpcts of the town, who made the gay eft figure in the 1 hentrc* Jf the Managers will* to put a Hop to the growing practice of private l heatncals, they will again ft next winter, have a particular part of the upper regions, appointed foie y for thofe girls of trade, and properly and publicly marked our as f«ch. It might be called maefrtx row—and thofe who wiflied to buy the cattle olleifd to,- (ale, would not then imflake a woman of virtue foi a demirep*
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London Times

London, Middlesex, GB

Wed, May 28, 1788

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