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Cokes, a country squire, comes up to London to the fair, to get his marriage license, attended by Waspe, his testy guardian, who calls for the license at John Littlewit's. Mrs. Littlewit conceives a violent craving for roast pig, and Dame Purecraft, her mother, and Rabbi Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, both hypocritical Puritans, agree to escort her to the fair, where it may be obtained, although they protest loudly against the vanity of such shows. The Rabbi salves his conscience for going by promising to eat to the fall of the wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo...
Induction, C. B. Wetherell '08John Littlewit, T. Eaton '08Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, J. C. Bills, Jr., '09Winwife, F. Izard '08Tom Quarlous, O. L. M. H. Lyding '09Bartholomew Cokes, F. A. Wilmot '10Humphrey Waspe, H. R. Shipherd '08Adam Overdo, C. B. Wetherell '08Lanthorn Leatherhead, J. A. Eccles '10Ezekiel Edgworth, L. R. Martineau, Jr., '09Nightingale, R. M. Middlemass '09Mooncalf, C. W. Burton '08Dan Jordan Knockem, A. W. Sampson '09Val Cutting, G. A. McKay '08Trouble-All, R. H. Smith '10Haggise, C. W. Burton '08Bristle, F. S. Howe '08Filcher, C. E. Hale '10Sharkwell, J. W. Baker '08Northern, C. E. Hale '10Puppy...
There is very little plot, and the action centres around the four principal characters: Littlewit, a proctor; Busy, a Puritan; Cokes, an esquire of Harrow; and Overdo, a justice of the peace. The scene is laid at Bartholemew Fair, where the characters have gone for recreation. Cokes is buying toys and ballads, when Edgworth slips up and picks his pocket. Justice Overdo, who is present in disguise, is accused and placed in the stocks. Then the Puritan Busy enters, and, filled with fanatical zeal, tries to destroy the gaily-colored booths. He is also put in the stocks, where...
...last act Littlewit goes to see how a puppet-show is conducted by Leatherhead. Busy rushes on and attempts to stop the performance, but is persuaded to be quiet. Now Overdo appears and discloses his identity, thinking he has discovered the perpetrators of all the crimes at the fair, but finds himself mistaken. Trouble-all, a mad man, Mooncalf, a tapster, and Haggise and Bristle, two drunken watchmen, furnish the low comedy parts...
...Wethere 08Lanthorn Leatherhead, J. A. Eccles '01Ezekiel Edgworth, L. R. Martineau '09Nightingale, C. C. Rausch 09Mooncalf, C. W. Burton 08Dan Jordan Knockem, A. W. Sampson '09Val Cutting, G. A. McKay '08Trouble all, R. H. Smith '01Bristle, C. w. Burton '08Haggise, F. S. Howe '08Pocher, J. W. Baker '08Mrs. Littlewit, L. B. Packard '09Dame Overdo, L. F. Black '09Dame Purecraft, N. B. Cole '09Grace Wehborn, L. E. Matteson 08Joan Trash, P. E. Illman '09Ursula, H. P. Breed...
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