*p1755 12 05 cg The Conscious Lovers. Young Bevil-Barry; Myrtle-Smith; Sir John Bevil-Gibson; Cimberton-Arthur; Humphrey-Anderson; Daniel-Collins; Tom (with a song in Character)-Dyer; Sealand-Sparks; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Stephens; Isabella-Miss Ferguson; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Indiana-Mrs Bellamy; Phillis-Mrs Woffington; <i>Occasional Prologue</i>-Mrs Woffington; and an <i>Epilogue</i>-Shuter.*a1755 12 05 cg The Cheats of Scapin. ^As17551105^.*d1755 12 05 cg Mrs Roland; and "By Desire" the <i>Fingalian Dance</i>, ^as17551126^.*s1755 12 05 cg Lowe.*c1755 12 05 cg Benefit for furnishing the new Wards in the <i>Middlesex Hospital</i>. Paid $Charlotte Lane= for altering a cloth coat, and green corded silk waistcoat lac'd with silver for $Mr Wm. Smith=, 5s. 6d.; shalloos back & bod lining to coat & stiffening, 3s. (MS list in $Davies=, <i>Life of Garrick</i> II, 332). [The <i>Occasional Prologue</i>, written by $Mr Boyce= was publish'd in the <i>Public Advertiser</i> 19 Dec. 1755]: @And, Britons, Godlike charity is yours...@'Tis yours to silence Misry's plaintive moan@And make the grief of others all your own...@Give balm to Nature's accidental woes,@And sooth th'impovrish'd matron's pregnant throes...@ [The <i>Epilogue</i>, written by $C. Smart=, and spoken by $Shuter= in the character of a <i>Man-midwife</i>r, was published in the same paper: Shuter enters with a child]: @Whoe'er begot thee has no cause to blush:@Thou'rt a brave chopping boy (child cries) nay, hush, hush, hush.@.......................@Nay if you once begin to puke and cough@Go to the nurse. Within, here, take him off.@Well Heav'n be prais'd, it is a peopling age,@Thanks to the Bar, the Army, and the Stage...@