Citation - Pennsylvania Evening Post: 1777.08.14

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Index Entry Bell's Book Store, sells plays, Maid of Oaks [t], Romance of an Hour [t] 
Location Philadelphia 
Citation
PEP.777.100
14 Aug 1777:4252 (3/391)
Just printed, published, and now selling at Bell's Book-
Store in Third-Street, Philadelphia (Price Two Thirds of a
Dollar)
The Maid of Oaks, a new dramatic entertainment, as it is
performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
  Here is a show as brilliant as at Cox's--
  Laugh for the pit-- and may be the boxes--
  Touches of passion, tender, though not tragic, 
  Strokes of the times-- a kind of lanthorn magic;
  Song, chorus, frolic, dance, and rural play, 
  The merry making of a wedding day.
[signed] Prologue.
Also now selling at said book store (price Two Thirds of a
Dollar)
The Romance of an Hour, a new comedy of two acts.
As it is performed, with universal applause, at the Theatre-
Royal in Covent-Garden.  Written by Hugh Kelly, Esq; of the
Middle Temple, author of False Delicacy, A Word to the Wise,
Clementian, The School for Wives, &c. &c.
He brings, indeed, a character to view, 
From Indian climes, he trusts, intirely new--
A poor Gentoo, compos'd of virtue all, 
Tho' fresh from English nabobs at Bengal.
Prol.
. . . [3 lines follow on other books]
[N.B. Several advertisements using verse]


Generic Title Pennsylvania Evening Post 
Date 1777.08.14 
Publisher Towne, Benjamin 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1777 
Bibliography B0034112
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