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Dramatis Personæ.

MEN.

• Mr. Pindar, a young Gentleman, and a great Disputant, who had made a Progress in Moral Philosophy, and has a Notion of Friendship, as an Heroic Virtue, and therefore is very faithful to Mr. Cole; but he has no great Insight into Casuistical Divinity, which makes him undertake a Murder to pleasure his Friend.
• Mr. Cole, a West-country Gentleman, who is of an Amorous Temper, and very easie Nature, as appears by the Indulgence he shews to Mrs. Frances, and the Tenderness he bears to her Mother.
• Father Clerkenwell and Mr. Atson, two North-Country brawny Fellows, very powerful at their Ale and Tobacco.
• The Church-warden, a considerate discreet Person, and very compassionate, though something negligent in not having presented the Enormities of the Persons living in his Parish.

Persons mentioned.

• Mr. Warburton, a deceas'd Lover of Mrs. Frances Harris.
• Mr. Hopman, a fictitious Name.
• Crendon, a famous Bag-piper, not admitted.

WOMEN.

• Mother Shephard, a prudent Person in her way of selling Ale, virtuously inclin'd, but suffering her Customers to run into Excess out of Hopes of her own Advantage.

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• Mother Franklin, a Person that concerns her self with little but the Offices of her Function, which are Brewing and Bottling of Ale, and at the same time very Neighbourly.
• Joan of Hedington, a Country Woman, and an ancient Parishioner in Hedington, of a Calling which though discommendable, yet has been made use of in all Ages; she seems Spirituous, and, if her Employment would suffer her, not disinclinable to Virtuous Courses, at least she despises the more vile Practises of others of the same Profession.
• Mother Harris, one the same Calling with Joan, who though she pretends to more Gentility, yet has not the same Plainness and Sincerity as the former.
• Mrs. Frances Harris, a Jilt.