Event Comment: To begin each day at twelve noon and end at ten at night during the short time of
St Bartholomew Fair at
Yates' (from
Drury Lane)
Great Concert Hall in the
Greyhound Inn,
Smithfield. There is a commodious way to the Hall opposite the
Sheep-Penn. The diverting entertainment contains the distresses of a young
lady that was stolen by a
French pirate; the gallantry of an
English Captain who rescued her; their unfortunate shipwreck, and their being thrown upon a desolate island; their sufferings through famine; the unexpected relief they met with on a part of the island; governed only by women; their being afterwards seized as pirates; the punishment inflicted on them by the Female Goverment; and their amazing delivering by the
Queen's finding her husband and her only son, whom she had lost and thought dead upwards of twenty years. Interspersed with the comical and diverting adventures of
Lt Fireball, a true
English Tar,
Noddy a distressed Beau,
Snivel Thimble, a tailor;
Splitfarthing an Old Userer; and
Glisterspite a Finical Surgeon. In which will be introduced a Dialogue between
Mynheer Vanflawkin, a
Dutchman, and
Mynheer-the German
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Shipwrecked Lovers; Or, Friendly Perfidy Punished
Song: tragi-comic song in the Welch Taste call'd% Hugh Morgan's Lamentation-a Choice Spirit from Common's Court
Dance: Conclude: a song, dance-
Music: An extraordinary Band of Musick is furnished such as you don't hear every day