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The Toy Shop (1735) The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737)
(Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1976), 149.
6. Allardyce Nicoll, A History of English Drama 1660-1900, 6 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955-60), 2:204.
7. For a survey of attempts to characterize sentimental drama, see Arthur Sherbo, English Sentimental Drama (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1957).
8. John Loftis, The Politics of Drama in Augustan England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 116-17.
9. Laura Brown, English Dramatic Form, 1660-1760: An Essay in Generic History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 148.
10. London Stage: Part 3, 635.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The Toy-Shop (1735) is reproduced from the copy of the first edition in the Henry E. Huntington Library (Shelf Mark: 152063). A typical type-page (p. 23) measures 135 x 72 mm.
The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737) is reproduced from the copy of the first edition in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Shelf Mark: *PR3409/D7K5). A typical type-page (p. 13) measures 145 x 73 mm.
THE
TOY-SHOP.
A
Dramatick Satire.
By Robert Dodsley,
Author of The Art of Charming.
LONDON:
Printed for Lawton Gilliver, at Homer's Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-street. 1735.
EPILOGUE.
Well, Heav'n be prais'd, this dull grave Sermon's done.
(For faith our Author might have call'd it one)
I wonder who the Devil he thought to please!
Is this a Time o' Day for Things like these?
Good Sense and honest Satire now offend;
We're grown too wise to learn, too proud to mend.
And so divinely wrapt in Songs and Tunes,
The next wise Age will all be——Fiddlers Sons.
And did he think plain Truth wou'd Favour find?
Ah! 'tis a Sign he little knows Mankind!
To please, he ought to have a Song or Dance,
The Tune from Italy, the Caper France:
These, these might charm——But hope to do't with Sense!
Alas, alas, how vain is the Pretence!
But, tho' we told him,——Faith, 'twill never do.—
Pho, never fear, he cry'd, tho' grave, 'tis new:
The Whim, perhaps, may please, if not the Wit.
And, tho' they don't approve, they may permit.
If neither this nor that will intercede,
Submissive bond, and thus for Pardon plead.
"To gen'rous Few, to you our Author sues
His first Essay with Candour to excuse.
'T has Faults, he owns, but, if they are but small,
He hopes your kind Applause will hide them all."
Dramatis Personæ.
MEN.
| Master of the Shop, | Mr. Chapman. | |
| 1 } | Gentleman, | Mr. Bridgewater. |
| 2 } | Mr. Wignell. | |
| 3 } | Mr. Hallam. | |
| 4 } | Mr. Hale. | |
| Beau. | Mr. Neale. | |
| 1 } | Old Man, | Mr. James. |
| 2 } | Mr. Hippisley. | |
WOMEN.
| 1 } | Lady, | Mrs. Bullock. | |
| 2 } | Miss Norsa. | ||
| 3 } | Mrs. Mullart. | ||
| 4 } | Miss Bincks. |
THE
TOY-SHOP.
SCENE a Parlour. A Gentleman and two Ladies, drinking Tea.
Gent. 
nd you have never been at this extraordinary Toy-shop, you say, Madam?
1 La. No, Sir: I have heard of the Man, indeed; but most People say, he's a very impertinent, silly Fellow.
Gent. That's because he sometimes tells them of their Faults.
1 La. And that's sufficient. I should think any Man impertinent that should pretend to tell me of my Faults, if they did not concern him.
Gent. Yes, Madam. But People that know him take no Exceptions. And really, tho' some may think him impertinent, in my Opinion, he's very entertaining.
2 La. Pray, who is this Man you're talking of? I never heard of him.
Gent. He's one who has lately set up a Toy-shop, Madam, and is, perhaps, the most extraordinary Person in his Way that ever was heard of. He is a general Satyrist, yet not rude nor ill-natur'd. He has got a Custom of moralizing upon every Trifle he sells, and will strike a Lesson of Instruction out of a Snuff-box, a Thimble, or a Cockle-shell.
1 La. Isn't he cras'd?
Gent. Madam, he may be call'd a Humourist; but he does not want Sense, I do assure you.
2 La. Methinks I should be glad to see him.
Gent. I dare say you will be very much diverted. And if you'll please to give me Leave, I'll wait on you. I'm particularly acquainted with him.
2 La. What say you, Madam, shall we go?
1 La. I can't help thinking he's a Coxcomb; however, to satisfy Curiosity I don't care if I do.
Gent. I believe the Coach is at the Door.
2 La. I hope he won't affront us.
Gent. He won't designedly, I'm sure, Madam.
[Exeunt.
Scene changes to the Toy-Shop, the Master standing behind the Counter looking over his Books.
Mast. Methinks I have had a tolerable good Day of it to-day. A Gold Watch, Five and Thirty Guineas——Let me see——What did that Watch stand me in?——Where is it? O here——Lent [Turning to another book backwards and forwards.] to Lady Basset Eighteen Guineas upon her Gold Watch. Ay, she died and never redeem'd it.—A Set of old China, Five Pounds.—Bought of an old Cloaths