Woolward Del.

Kirtlandson, Fud.

THE ACTRESS' PRAYER!!

Hear me Dramatic Sifters, gay THALIA, and sublime MELPOMONE, be Guardians to your
fupplicant, and aid her in her profession.—Well ye know the hair-breadth scrapes I have
encountered since my Elopement and Trip to Scotland, evading the vigilance of my Duenna,
braving The School for Scandal, and venturing Neck or Nothing, for TOMMY TRAP, the Tragedian.
Oh! he was a jewel of an Actor, the grand prop of a Country Company, the fide-wing as it
were of Theatrical Genius, and though a Poor Gentleman, and frequently in the Road to Ruin,
he was the Pizarro of my heart, and I was to him the very Obi of perfection!

But TOMMY is no more!!—The O. P. and P. S. that marked his exits and his entrances
mourn him, and if he had failings, they are lost behind the Curtain of oblivion!

Protect, I befeech ye, our little community, and may our *shares* be trebled; divide the
candle-ends in equal proportions, and give additional *honefty* to our *door-keeper*, who, I am
apprehensive, requires a large increase of that necessary article! *Prompt*, I befeech ye, the
Town's-people to aid my forth-coming *benefit*, and open the proud hearts of the family of the
THROG-MORTONS', so that they may *all* appear at the Theatre at an early hour, even down
to Mrs. DICKENS, the Methodist house-keeper! And lastly, I pray ye, *should* I ever reach
the boards of a London Theatre, may my terms be as enormous as my abilities are con-
spicuous, and finally my labours be crowned with the coronet of honor, and that I may become
a convert to domestic happyneſs.

SPRAGG, PRINTER, 27, BOW-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN.

THE ACTRESS' PRAYER!!

But TOMMY is no more!!—The O. P. and P. S. that marked his exits and his entrances
mourn him, and if he had failings, they are loft behind the Curtain of oblivion!

Protect, I befeech ye, our little community, and may our *shares* be trebled; divide the
candle-ends in equal proportions, and give additional *honefty* to our door-keeper, who, I am
apprehensive, requires a large increase of that necessary article! *Prompt*, I befeech ye, the
Town's-people to aid my forth-coming *benefit*, and open the proud hearts of the family of the
THROG-MORTONS', so that they may *all* appear at the Theatre at an early hour, even down
to Mrs. DICKENS, the methodist house-keeper! And lastly, I pray ye, *should* I ever reach
the boards of a London Theatre, may my terms be as enormous as my abilities are con-
spicuous, and finally my labours be crowned with the coronet of honor, and that I may become
a convert to domestic happineſs.

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Yale Center for British Art, 2013