The Theater (1720)

Language: English
Wordcount: 16,830 / 58 pg
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 58.9
LoC Category: PN
Downloads: 623
Added to site: 2005.06.08
mnybks.net#: 10585
Genre: Drama
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'And as to such Qualifications wherewith I am endow'd, which have always serv'd me in the Nature of personal Estate, I dispose thereof as follows; First, I give and bequeath my Politicks to the Directors of the Academy of Musick, my Religion to the Bishop of B----, my Eloquence to the most distrest Author in Grubstreet, who writes the full Accounts of _Murthers & Rapes_, and Fires, and my Obscurity to somebody that is inclin'd to turn Casuist in Divinity.

'Item, I give my Beauty to Mr. Dennis, because he had a Mind to steal it from me while I was alive.

'Item, I give my Wits to my Friends at _Button's_, my Good Manners to the Deputy Governors of Drury Lane Theatre; and my Charity to the married and unmarried Ladies

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