Sentence:  &#91;[https://books.google.com/books?id=wQTOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73 page 73, column 2]&#93; "Mother Goose" was produced on the 29th of December; Simmons playing the Old <WSD>Dame</WSD>; ... &#91;[https://books.google.com/books?id=wQTOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73 page 74, column 1]&#93; Bugle condemns her to the ducking-stool, a sentence opposed by Colin, who espouses the cause of the Old <WSD>Dame</WSD>, who, escaping from her persecutors, puts an end to the wedding festivities by raising the ghost of the Squire's first wife. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.