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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "Punchs Defeat"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount

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Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Dance of Moors-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Mrs Wright; III: Punch-Master Ferg; V: Aethiopian Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Punch Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Pierots-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment

Song: I: Advice to the Tatlers (by Desire)-Mrs Clive; III: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Music: Select Pieces-

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Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Punch Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Pierots-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Turkish Dance-Muilment

Song: V: See from the Silent Groves-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Turkish Dance-Muilment; IV: Comic Dance-Poitier

Song: II: Wou'd You Taste the Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard; IV: (By Desire,) Oh Happy Pair (out of Alexander's Feast)-

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Punches Dances-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Dutch Dance (new)-Baudoin, Miss Thompson; V: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: By Desire, Oh Happy Pair (out of Alexander's Feast)-

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Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: Moors Dance-Muilment; II: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Muilment, Mrs Thompson; V: Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

Song: TThe Noontide Air, as17390407

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Russian Sailors-Denoyer

Song: TThe Noontide Air (from Comus)-Mrs Clive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queen; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Song: II: Oh Happy Pair-Beard; IV: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Music: In V: By particular Desire, the Dead March in the last New Oratorio, called Saul and David, by Mr Handel-

Dance: V: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

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Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg; Miss Wright; III: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: II: Singing in Italian-Miss Thynne; IV: The Noontide Air-Beard

Music: V: A Concerto-Henry Burgess Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Pierots-Leviez, Pelling; IV: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Music: V: A Concerto-Henry Burgess Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: II: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Morrison (Scholars to Liviez); I: Saraband, Tambourine-Miss Morrison; III: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland; V: Two Pierots-Leviez, Pelling

Song: TThe Protestation-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: II: Punch-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Two Pierots-Leviez, Pelling; III: Chacone-Miss Kilby; In IV: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland

Song: V: The Life of a Beau-Mrs Clive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: Second Musick:A Concertoby Henry Burgess Jr-; The Overture: The First Concerto of Signor Corelli-; Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: By Desire, French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland; III: Pierots-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Master Ferg; V: A new dance-Miss Wright

Song: a G Grand Chorus-, out of Alexander's Feast, for Trumpets, French-Horns, Kettle-Drums

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Pierots-Leviez, Pelling; IV: Ethiopian Dance-Muilment, Leviez, Baudouin, Rector, Fromont; V: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland

Song: III: The Protestation-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; III: Dutch Dance-Baudouin, Miss Thompson; V: Ethiopian Dance-Muilment, Livier, Baudouin, Rector, Fromont

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin's Distress; Or, The Happiness Of Colombine

Song: A dialogue between Punch and Colombine-; The Beau-

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Phillips; Scaramouch Dance-Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; IV: Scots Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; V: Grand Ballet-Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Dance: II: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Pierots-Lalauze, Pelling; III: La Matelote-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Scots Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

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Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: La Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf alone; III: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; II: L'Allamande-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright