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PROLOGUE.
This play is call'd The Step-Mother. When firstIt was presented, such a hurricane,
A tumult so uncommon interven'd,
It neither could be seen, nor understood:
So taken were the people, so engag'd
By a rope-dancer!—It is now brought on
As a new piece: and he who wrote the play,
Suffer'd it not to be repeated then,
That he might profit by a second sale.
Others, his plays, you have already known;
Now then, let me beseech you, know this too.
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