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PAST TEN O'CLOCK,

AND A

RÁINY NIGHT,

A Farce.

IN TWO ACTS.

AS PERFORMED AT THE

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.

BY THOMAS DIBDIN.

UTHOR OF THE JEW AND DOCTOR, CABINET, METRICAL
HISTORY OF ENGLAND, &c. &c.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1815.

[Price One Shilling and Six-pence.]

M.adds. 109

Bt. from Chines

BUD

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7 MAR 1958

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PAST TEN O'CLOCK,

AND A

RAINY NIGHT.

ACT I.

SCENE I-A Hall.

Old SNAPS discovered sealing a letter.

Snaps. Silence! Silence! Mistress Silence!(She enters and curtsies.) Are the young ladies both up stairs? (She nods.) There have been no strange men in the house? (She shakes her head.) Is old Dozey below? (She nods.) Send him to me. (She curtsies and goes off.) There! there goes a wonder!-a woman who doesn't talk. I bargain'd with her never to speak but when I bid her-my two wards make so much noise that, if she were to join, one might as well live at a coppersmith's.-Of all my servants, Mrs. Silence is the only good one who doesn't answer. (Dozey enters.) Dozey, do you know (DOZEY the Rodney's head?

Doz. Forty years ago I remember

Sna. I don't ask what you remember'd forty years ago-do you know it now?

Doz. Hardly, his face and wig were brown, as a sailor's should be-but your land painters

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