ces; /Nigh Head Quarters, at/
Amboyne. /In Two Acts./ New-York: / Printed by John Anderson,/ at
Beekman's-Slip./ [The Boston edition was printed and sold by Edes and
Gill, in Queen-Street, 1775.]

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GROUP,

A

FARCE:

As lately Acted, and to be Re-acted, to the Wonder of all superior
Intelligences;

NIGH HEAD QUARTERS, AT

AMBOYNE.

IN TWO ACTS.

JAMAICA, PRINTED;
_PHILADELPHIA_, RE-PRINTED;
BY JAMES HUMPHREYS, junior, in Front-street.

M,DCC,LXXV.

FAC-SIMILE TITLE-PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION]

The AUTHOR has thought proper to borrow the following spirited lines
from a late celebrated Poet, and offer to the public, by way of
PROLOGUE, which cannot fail of pleasing at this crisis.

PROLOGUE

_WHAT! arm'd for virtue, and not point the pen,
Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men,
Dash the proud gamester from his gilded car,
Bare the mean heart which lurks beneath a star,_

* * *

_Shall I not strip the gilding off a knave,
Unplac'd, unpension'd, no man's heir, or slave?
I will, or perish in the gen'rous cause;
Hear this and tremble, ye who 'scape the laws;
Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave,
Shall walk the world in credit to his grave;
To virtue only, and her friends, a friend,
The world beside may murmur, or commend._

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

_Lord Chief Justice HAZLEROD_,
_Judge MEAGRE_,
_Brigadier HATEALL_,
_HUM HUMBUG, Esquire_,
_Sir SPARROW SPENDALL_,
_HECTOR MUSHROOM,--Col._
_BEAU TRUMPS_,
_DICK, the Publican_,
_SIMPLE SAPLING, Esquire_,
_Monsieur de FRANCOIS_,
_CRUSTY CROWBAR, Esquire_,
_DUPE,--Secretary of State_,
_SCRIBLERIUS FRIBBLE_,
_Commodore BATEAU_,
_COLLATERALIS,--a new-made Judge_.

Attended by a swarm of court sycophants, hungry harpies, and
unprincipled danglers, collected from the neighbouring villages,
hovering over the stage in the shape of locusts, led by
Massachusettensis in the form of a basilisk; the rear brought up by
Proteus, bearing a torch in one hand, and a powder-flask in the other.
The whole supported by a mighty army and navy, from Blunderland, for
the laudable purpose of enslaving its best friends.

_The_

GROUP

_A_

_Farce_

ACT I.

SCENE I. _A little dark Parlour in Boston:_

_GUARDS standing at the door._

_HAZLEROD, CRUSTY CROWBAR, SIMPLE SAPLING, HATEALL, and HECTOR
MUSHROOM._

SIMPLE.

I know not what to think of these sad times,
The people