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PUNCH AND JUDY.
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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
- PUNCH.
- SCARAMOUCH.
- THE CHILD.
- COURTIER.
- DOCTOR.
- SERVANT.
- BLIND MAN.
- CONSTABLE.
- POLICE OFFICER.
- JACK KETCH.
- THE DEVIL.
- TOBY.
- HECTOR.
- JUDY.
- POLLY.
THE
TRAGICAL COMEDY, OR COMICAL TRAGEDY
OF
PUNCH AND JUDY.
Enter Punch—after a few preliminary squeaks, he bows three times to the spectators;—once in the centre, and once at each side of the stage, and then speaks the following
Prologue.[1]
Ladies and Gentlemen, pray how you do?
If you all happy, me all happy too.
Stop and hear my merry littel play;
If me make you laugh, me need not make you pay.
Exit.
- ↑ The ancient motions, or puppet-shows, had prologues, as appears, among other authorities, from Jasper Mayne's "City Match," Act 5. Sc. 2.
"like a buskin'd prologue, in
A stately, high, majestic motion bare."Powell also, as we have already seen, (vide Chap. 3) attacked Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., in a prologue. Puppet-show men, now-a-days, seem to have adopted Cumberland's opinion, in his "Observer," that prologues and epilogues are useless appendages.
