You who have left caballing here
of late, Imploy'd in matters of a mightier weight; To you we make our
humble Application, You'd spare some time from your dear new Vocation,
Of drinking deep, then settling the Nation, To countenance us, whom
Commonwealths of old Did the most politick Diversion hold. Plays were
so useful thought to Government, That Laws were made for their
Establishment; Howe'er in Schools differing Opinions jar, Yet all
agree i' th' crouded Theatre, Which none forsook in any Change or War.
That, like their Gods, unviolated stood, Equally needful to the
publick Good. Throw then, Great Sirs, some vacant hours away, And your
Petitioners shall humbly pray, &c. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. MEN. Willmore,
The Rover, in love with La Nuche, Mr. Smith. Beaumond, the English
Ambassador's Nephew, in love with La Nuche, contracted to Ariadne, Mr.
Williams. Ned Blunt, an English Country Gentleman, Mr. Underhill.
Nicholas Fetherfool, an English Squire, his Friend, Mr. Nokes. Shift,
an English Lieutenant,: Friends and Officers to Mr. Wiltshire. Hunt,
an Ensign: Willmore, Mr. Richards. Harlequin, Willmore's Man Abevile,
Page to Beaumond Don Carlo, an old Grandee, in love with La Nuche, Mr.
Norris. Sancho, Bravo to La Nuche. An old Jew, Guardian to the two
Monsters, Mr. Freeman. Porter at the English Ambassador's.
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