The Ambitious Step-mother

by Nicholas Rowe

The Ambitious Step-mother.

 

A

TRAGEDY.

 

As 'twas Acted at the New Theatre
in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields.

 

By His Majesty's Servants.

 

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By N. Rowe, Esq;.

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———Decet hæc dare dona noveream. Ovid Metam. lib. 9.

Vane Ligur, frustraq; animis elate superbis, Nequicquam . . . . . . tentâsti lubricus artes Advenit qui vestra dies muliebribus armis Verba redargueret.Virg. Æn. lib. II.

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LONDON,

Printed for Peter Buck, at the Sign of the Temple, near the
Inner-Temple-Gate, in Fleet-street. 1701.

Contents (not listed in original)

• To the Right Honourable the Earl of Jersey
• The Prologue. Spoke by Mr. Batterton
• Dramatis Personæ
• Act I.
• Act II, Scene I.
• Act II, Scene II.
• Act III, Scene I.
• Act III, Scene II.
• Act III, Scene III.
• Act IV, Scene I.
• Act IV, Scene II.
• Act IV, Scene III.
• Act V, Scene I.
• Act V, Scene II.
• The Epilogue. Spoke by Mrs. Bracegirdle