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BNL.776.003
11 Jan 1776:43 (3762[=3763])
On Monday was presented at the Theatre at Faneuil-Hall, the
comedy of he Busy Body, which was received with great
applause. The actors seem'd all to have profited by
impartial's advice; and we must do the ladies the justice to
say, they always were perfect as well in their parts as in
their action.--A new farce called the Blockade of Boston was
to have been presented the same evening, but was interrupted
by a sergeant's representing, or rather misrepresenting, the
burning of two or three old houses at Charlestown as a
general attack on the town of Boston. But it is very
evident, the rebels possess a sufficiency of what Falstaff
terms the better part of valor, to prevent their making an
attempt that must inevitably end in their own destruction.
As soon as these parts in the Boston Blockade which are
vacant by some gentlemen being ordered to Charles Town can
be filled up, that farce will be performed with the Tragedy
of Tamerlane.
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