Event Comment: Benefit for furnishing the new Wards in the
Middlesex Hospital. 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,
Life of Garrick II, 332). [The
Occasional Prologue, written by
Mr Boyce was publish'd in the
Public Advertiser 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
Epilogue, written by
C. Smart,
and spoken by
Shuter in the character of a
Man-midwife, 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...