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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.
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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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.
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ACT V.

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SCENE II.

PARMENO
alone.
It were not good
That I should follow him into the house:
For all our family are odious to them.
That's plain from their denying Sostrata
Admittance yesterday.—And if by chance
Her illness should increase, (which heav'n forbid,
For my poor master's sake!) they'll cry directly,
“Sostrata's servant came into the house:”
Swear,—“that I brought the plague along with me,
“Put all their lives in danger, and encreas'd
“Philumena's distemper.”—By which means,
My mistress will be blam'd, and I be beaten.

 

The Poet very artfully devises a reason to prevent not only Parmeno, but Sostrata also from entering the house. Donatus.

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