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<country>Great Britain</country>
<country>England</country>
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<country>Great Britain</country>
<country>England</country>
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<country>Great Britain</country>
<country>England</country>
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related activities</desc>
<country>United Kingdom</country>
<country>Great Britain</country>
<country>England</country>
<region>Greater London</region>
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<desc>Condemned criminals passed through this central London district on
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<country>United Kingdom</country>
<country>Great Britain</country>
<country>England</country>
<region>Greater London</region>
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<country>United Kingdom</country>
<country>Great Britain</country>
<country>England</country>
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<front>
<titlePage>
<docTitle>
<titlePart type="main">
<lb/>THE <lb/><hi rend="italic">BEGGAR’s</hi>
<lb/>OPERA.</titlePart>
<titlePart type="sub"><lb/>As it is Acted at the <lb/><rs type="place"
>THEATRE-ROYAL</rs><lb/>IN <lb/>LINCOLNS-INN-FIELDS.</titlePart>
</docTitle>
<byline><lb/>Written by <docAuthor>Mr. <hi rend="italic"
>GAY.</hi></docAuthor></byline>
<epigraph>
<cit>
<lb/>
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<quote>-----<hi rend="italic">Nos hæc novimus esse nihil.</hi>
</quote>
</cit>
<bibl>-Mart.</bibl>
</epigraph>
<lb/>
<docTitle>
<titlePart type="sub">To which is Added, <lb/><hi rend="italic">The</hi> MUSICK
<hi rend="italic"> Engrav’d on</hi> COPPER-<lb/> PLATES.</titlePart>
</docTitle>
<docImprint>
<lb/>LONDON: <lb/> Printed for <publisher>JOHN WATTS</publisher>, <pubPlace>at
the Printing-Office In <hi rend="italics">Wild-Court</hi>, near <hi
rend="italics">Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields.</hi></pubPlace><lb/><date> M
DCCXXVIII.</date>
<lb/>[Price 1s. 6d.]</docImprint>
</titlePage>
<performance>
<castList>
<head>DRAMATIS PERSONAE.</head>
<castGroup>
<head>MEN.</head>
<castItem>
<role>Peachum.</role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">Hippesley.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Lockit.</role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics"> Hall. </hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem>
<role>Macheath.</role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">Walker.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Filch.</role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">Clark.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castGroup>
<head><hi rend="italics">Macheath</hi>'s Gang.</head>
<castItem><role>Jemmy Twitcher.</role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">H. Bullock.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role><hi rend="italics">Crook-finger’d</hi> Jack.</role>
<actor><hi rend="italics">Mr. Houghton.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Wat Dreary.</role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">Smith.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Robin <hi rend="italics">of</hi> Bagshot.</role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">Lacy.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Nimming Ned.</role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">Pit</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Harry Padington.</role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">Eaton.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Matt <hi rend="italics">of the</hi> Mint.</role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">Spiller.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Ben Budge.</role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">Morgan.</hi></actor></castItem>
</castGroup>
<castItem>
<role><hi rend="italics">Beggar.</hi></role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">Chapman.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role><hi rend="italics">Player.</hi></role>
<actor>Mr. <hi rend="italics">Milward.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role><hi rend="italics">Constables, Drawer, Turnkey,
&c.</hi></role></castItem>
</castGroup>
<castGroup>
<head>WOMEN.</head>
<castItem><role><hi rend="italics">Mrs.</hi> Peachum.</role>
<actor>Mrs. <hi rend="italics">Martin.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Polly Peachum.</role>
<actor>Miss <hi rend="italics">Fenton.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role> Lucy Lockit.</role>
<actor>Mrs. <hi rend="italics">Egleton.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Diana Trapes.</role>
<actor>Mrs. <hi rend="italics">Martin.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castGroup>
<head>Women of the Town.</head>
<castItem><role><hi rend="italics">Mrs.</hi> Coaxer.</role>
<actor>Mrs. <hi rend="italics">Holiday.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Dolly Trull.</role>
<actor>Mrs. <hi rend="italics">Lacy.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role><hi rend="italics">Mrs.</hi> Vixen.</role>
<actor>Mrs. <hi rend="italics">Rice.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Betty Doxy.</role>
<actor>Mrs. <hi rend="italics">Rogers.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Jenny Diver.</role>
<actor>Mrs. <hi rend="italics">Clarke.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role><hi rend="italics">Mrs.</hi> Slammekin.</role>
<actor>Mrs. <hi rend="italics">Morgan.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Suky Tawdry.</role>
<actor>Mrs. <hi rend="italics">Palin.</hi></actor></castItem>
<castItem><role>Molly Brazen.</role>
<actor>Mrs. <hi rend="italics">Sallee.</hi></actor></castItem>
</castGroup>
</castGroup>
</castList>
</performance>
</front>
<body>
<div1>
<div2 type="introduction">
<p>INTRODUCTION.</p>
<lb/>
<stage>BEGGAR. PLAYER.</stage>
<lb/>
<sp who="BG">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Beggar.</hi></speaker>
<p>IF Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure No-body can dispute mine. I
own myself of the Company of Beggars; and I make one at their Weekly
Festivals at St. <placeName ref="#Giles" rend="italics">Giles</placeName>’s. I have a small Yearly
Salary for my Catches, and am welcome to a Dinner there whenever I
please, which is more than most Poets can say.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="PL">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Player.</hi></speaker>
<p>As we live by the Muses, ’tis but Gratitude in us to encourage Poetical
Merit where-ever we find it. The Muses, contrary to all other Ladies,
pay no Distinction to Dress, and never partially mistake the Pertness of
Embroidery for Wit, nor the Modesty of Want for Dulness. Be the Author
who he will, we push his Play as far as it will go. So (though you are
in Want) I wish you Success heartily.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="BG">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Beggar.</hi></speaker>
<p>This Piece I own was originally writ for the celebrating the Marriage of
<hi rend="italics">James Chanter</hi> and <hi rend="italics">Moll
Lay</hi>, two most excellent Ballad-Singers. I have introduc’d the
Similes that are in all your celebrated <hi rend="italics">Operas:</hi>
The <hi rend="italics">Swallow,</hi> the <hi rend="italics">Moth</hi>,
the <hi rend="italics">Bee</hi>, the <hi rend="italics">Ship</hi>, the
<hi rend="italics">Flower</hi>, &c. Besides, I have a Prison
Scene which the Ladies always reckon charmingly pathetick. As to the
Parts, I have observ’d such a nice Impartiality to our two Ladies, that
it is impossible for either of them to take Offence. I hope I may be
forgiven, that I have not made my Opera throughout unnatural, like those
in vogue; for I have no Recitative: Excepting this, as I have consented
to have neither Prologue nor Epilogue, it must be allow’d an Opera in
all its forms. The Piece indeed hath been heretofore frequently
represented by ourselves in our great Room at St. <placeName ref="#Giles" rend="italics">Giles</placeName>’s, so that I cannot too often acknowledge your Charity
in bringing it now on the Stage.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="PL">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Player.</hi></speaker>
<p>But I see ’tis time for us to withdraw; the Actors are preparing to
begin. Play away the Ouverture.</p>
</sp>
<stage>[<hi rend="italics">Exeunt.</hi></stage>
</div2>
<div2 type="act">
<head>ACT I.</head>
<div3 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I.</head>
<stage>SCENE Peachum's <hi rend="italics">House.</hi><lb/> Peachum <hi
rend="italics">sitting at a Table with a large Book of Accounts
before him.</hi></stage>
<sp>
<floatingText xml:lang="eng">
<body>
<div type="song" n="1">
<head>AIR I. An old Woman cloathed in Gray, <hi
rend="italics">&c.</hi></head>
<l>
<hi rend="italics">THROUGH all the Employments of
Life</hi></l>
<l>
<hi rend="italics"> Each Neighbour abuses his
Brother;</hi></l>
<l>
<hi rend="italics">Whore and Rogue they call Husband and
Wife:</hi></l>
<l>
<hi rend="italics"> All Professions be-rogue one
another.</hi></l>
<l>
<hi rend="italics">The Priest calls the Lawyer a
Cheat,</hi></l>
<l><hi rend="italics"> The Lawyer be-knaves the
Divine;</hi></l>
<l><hi rend="italics">And the Statesman, because he's so
great,</hi></l>
<l><hi rend="italics"> Thinks his Trade as honest as
mine.</hi></l>
</div>
</body>
</floatingText>
<p>A Lawyer is an honest Employment, so is mine. Like me too he acts in
a double Capacity, both against Rogues and for 'em; for 'tis but
fitting that we should protect and encourage Cheats, since we live
by them.</p>
</sp>
</div3>
<div3 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II.</head>
<stage>Peachum, Filch.</stage>
<sp who="F">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Filch.</hi></speaker>
<p>Sir, Black <hi rend="italics">Moll</hi> hath sent word her Tryal
comes on in the Afternoon, and she hopes you will order Matters so
as to bring her off.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="P">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Peachum.</hi></speaker>
<p>Why, she may plead her Belly at worst; to my Knowledge she hath taken
care of that Security. But as the Wench is very active and
industrious, you may satisfy her that I'll soften the Evidence.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="F">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Filch.</hi></speaker>
<p><hi rend="italics">Tom Gagg</hi>, Sir, is found guilty.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="P">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Peachum.</hi></speaker>
<p>A lazy Dog! When I took him the time before, I told him what he would
come to if he did not mend his Hand. This is Death without Reprieve.
I may venture to Book him. [<hi rend="italics">writes</hi>] For <hi
rend="italics">Tom Gagg</hi>, forty Pounds. Let <hi
rend="italics">Betty Sly</hi>know that I'll save her from
Transportation, for I can get more by her staying in <hi
rend="italics">England</hi>.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="F">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Filch.</hi></speaker>
<p><hi rend="italics">Betty</hi> hath brought more Goods into our Lock
to-year than any five of the Gang; and in truth, 'tis a pity to lose
so good a Customer.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="P">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Peachum.</hi></speaker>
<p>If none of the Gang take her off, she may, in the common course of
Business, live a Twelve-month longer. I love to let Women scape. A
good Sportsman always lets the Hen Partridges fly, because the breed
of the Game depends upon them. Besides, here the Law allows us no
Reward; there is nothing to be got by the Death of Women----except
our Wives.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="F">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Filch.</hi></speaker>
<p>Without dispute, she is a fine Woman! 'Twas to her I was oblig'd for
my Education, and (to say a bold Word) she hath train'd up more
young Fellows to the Business than the Gaming-table.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="P">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Peachum.</hi></speaker>
<p>Truly, <hi rend="italics">Filch</hi>, thy Observation is right. We
and the Surgeons are more beholden to Women than all the Professions
besides.</p>
</sp>
<sp>
<floatingText xml:lang="eng">
<body>
<div type="song" n="2">
<head>AIR II. The bonny gray-ey'd Morn, <hi rend="italics"
>&c.</hi></head>
<stage>Filch.</stage>
<l><hi rend="italics">Tis Woman that seduces all
Mankind,</hi></l>
<l><hi rend="italics"> By her we first were taught the
wheedling Arts:</hi></l>
<l><hi rend="italics">Her very Eyes can cheat; when most
she's kind,</hi></l>
<l><hi rend="italics"> She tricks us of our Money with our
Hearts.</hi></l>
<l><hi rend="italics">For her, like Wolves by night we roam
for Prey,</hi></l>
<l><hi rend="italics"> And practise ev'ry Fraud to bribe her
Charms;</hi></l>
<l><hi rend="italics">For Suits of Love, like Law, are won
by Pay,</hi></l>
<l><hi rend="italics"> And Beauty must be fee'd into our
Arms</hi>.</l>
</div>
</body>
</floatingText>
</sp>
<sp who="P">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Peachum.</hi></speaker>
<p>But make haste to <placeName ref="Newgate" rend="italics">Newgate</placeName>, Boy, and let my
Friends know what I intend; for I love to make them easy one way or
other.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="F">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Filch.</hi></speaker>
<p>When a Gentleman is long kept in suspence, Penitence may break his
Spirit ever after. Besides, Certainty gives a Man a good Air upon
his Tryal, and makes him risque another without Fear or Scruple. But
I'll away, for 'tis a Pleasure to be the Messenger of Comfort to
Friends in Affliction.</p>
</sp>
</div3>
<div3 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III.</head>
<stage>Peachum.</stage>
<sp>
<p>But 'tis now high time to look about me for a decent Execution
against next Sessions. I hate a lazy Rogue, by whom one can get
nothing 'till he is hang'd. A Register of the Gang, [reading]
Crook-finger'd Jack. A Year and a half in the Service; Let me see
how much the Stock owes to his Industry; one, two, three, four, five
Gold Watches, and seven Silver ones. A mighty clean-handed Fellow!
Sixteen Snuff-boxes, five of them of true Gold. Six dozen of
Handkerchiefs, four silver-hilted Swords, half a dozen of Shirts,
three Tye-Perriwigs, and a Piece of Broad Cloth. Considering these
are only the Fruits of his leisure Hours, I don't know a prettier
Fellow, for no Man alive hath a more engaging Presence of Mind upon
the Road. Wat Dreary, alias Brown Will, an irregular Dog, who hath
an underhand way of disposing of his Goods. I'll try him only for a
Sessions or two longer upon his good Behaviour. Harry Padington, a
poor petty-larceny Rascal, without the least Genius; that Fellow,
though he were to live these six Months, will never come to the
Gallows with any Credit. Slippery Sam; he goes off the next
Sessions, for the Villain hath the Impudence to have views of
following his Trade as a Taylor, which he calls an honest
Employment. Matt of the Mint; listed not above a Month ago, a
promising sturdy Fellow, and diligent in his way; somewhat too bold
and hasty, and may raise good Contributions on the Publick, if he
does not cut himself short by Murder. Tom. Tipple, a guzzling
soaking Sot, who is always too drunk to stand himself, or to make
others stand. A Cart is absolutely necessary for him. Robin of
Bagshot, alias Gorgon, alias Bluff Bob, alias Carbuncle, alias Bob
Booty.</p>
</sp>
</div3>
<div3 type="scene" n="4">
<head>SCENE IV.</head>
<stage>Peachum, Mrs. Peachum.</stage>
<sp who="MP">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Mrs. Peachum.</hi></speaker>
<p>What of Bob Booty, Husband? I hope nothing bad hath betided him. You
know, my Dear, he's a favourite Customer of mine. 'Twas he made me a
Present of this Ring.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="P">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Peachum.</hi></speaker>
<p>I have set his Name down in the Black-List, that's all, my Dear; he
spends his Life among Women, and as soon as his Money is gone, one
or other of the Ladies will hang him for the Reward, and there's
forty Pound lost to us for-ever.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="MP">
<speaker><hi rend="italics">Mrs. Peachum.</hi></speaker>
<p>You know, my Dear, I never meddle in matters of Death; I always leave
those Affairs to you. Women indeed are bitter bad Judges in these
cases, for they are so partial to the Brave that they think every
Man handsome who is going to the Camp or the Gallows.</p>
</sp>
<sp>