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The Step-Mother

Colman, George (1732-1794)
  
THE STEP-MOTHER;
  
[note]
  
[dedication]
  
[castlist]
  
[section]
  
PROLOGUE.
  
ANOTHER PROLOGUE.

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ACT I.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
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ACT II.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
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ACT III.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.
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SCENE X.
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ACT IV.
 1. 
SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.
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ACT V.
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SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.

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SCENE III.

Manet SOSTRATA.
Sostra.
How unjustly
Do husbands stretch their censures to all wives
For the offences of a few, whose vices
Reflect dishonour on the rest!—For, heaven
So help me, as I'm wholly innocent
Of what my husband now accuses me!
But 'tis no easy task to clear myself;
So fix'd and rooted is the notion in them,
That Step-Mothers are all severe.—Not I;
For I have ever lov'd Philumena,
As my own daughter; nor can I conceive
What accident has drawn her hatred on me.
My son's return, I hope, will settle all;
And, ah, I've too much cause to wish his coming.

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