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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Last Night&lt;br /&gt;1795&lt;br /&gt;this Present Evening Dec&lt;em&gt;embe&lt;/em&gt;r., 30th at the Theatre&lt;br /&gt;Fayetteville North Carolina&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AN EVENING'S LOUNGE;&lt;br /&gt;OR,&lt;br /&gt;Antidote for the Spleen.&lt;br /&gt;Mr. &amp;amp; Mrs. Henderson,&lt;br /&gt;(From the Theatre, Charleston)&lt;br /&gt;Will Perform several Pieces selected and comprised in several Parts, where the Follies of Life are exposed&lt;br /&gt;in Laughable and striking Colours.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Being a Satirical, Whimsical, Humourous, Moral, and Illustrative Dissertation and Display of Passions&lt;br /&gt;Humours, Whims, and Oddities, in Song and Dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PROLOGUE,&lt;br /&gt;Old Man - Boy - and the Ass&lt;br /&gt;Head of an Opera Singer - Soldier - On Nobody - Every Body - Any Body - Some Body - On Flat&lt;br /&gt;tery - Knight Errand.&lt;br /&gt;Song, &lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear Nancy I've Sail'd."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Spanking Jack&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;DISSERTATION&lt;br /&gt;On &lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;Gaming and Drinking&lt;/span&gt; &lt;sup&gt;Jealousy&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Comic Song, "&lt;em&gt;Moderation, Alteration, and Generation."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PORTRAIT OF THE AUDIENCE.&lt;br /&gt;After which a Piece, call'd&lt;br /&gt;The SULTAN;&lt;br /&gt;OR,&lt;br /&gt;A Peep into the Seraglio.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;A Piece call'd the&lt;br /&gt;COUNTRY GIRL;&lt;br /&gt;Or, Square Toes Outwitted.&lt;br /&gt;Comic Song, &lt;em&gt;"Fat Dolly the Cook."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After which, (by Particular Desire) the&lt;br /&gt;ROMP&lt;br /&gt;The whole to conclude with the Standard of Liberty.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tickets 7/6 &amp;amp; 5s each - To be had at the usual Places&lt;br /&gt;Doors opened at Half past Five, and begin at Half past Six o'Clock.&lt;/p&gt;
N.B &lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;Variety&lt;/span&gt; With Entertainments by several Gentlemen&lt;br /&gt;for their Amusement.</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Theatre at Fayetteville, Dec&lt;em&gt;embe&lt;/em&gt;r. 31st: 1795.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Possitively the last Night.&lt;/p&gt;
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