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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.


  1. 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.