The Bottle Conjuror (1798) Stearns, Charles Derived Text Format to access the structural information conversion Mathias Göbel TextGrid CC-BY-4.0 Lizenzvertrag Charles Stearns, 1753 – 1826 The Bottle Conjuror. A Dramatic Dialogue, in Three Acts [in, Dramatic Dialogues for the Use of Schools] Leominster John Prentiss, & Co. 540 p. Slyboots unclear Miss Firebrand Father Sidrophel Sheriff Ralph Suitor Farmer Mother Holdfast A Miller Dialogue Drama Prose data extraction from source 1798

THE rage of curiosity, enquiring into future event, has been a vice of mankind in every age. There is more wickedness in this vice, than every one is aware of. It implies impatience, under the present dispensations of Divine Providence, and distrust for the future — It often excites delusive hopes — at other times, fills the mind with needless anguish and terror — And it greatly injures society, by supporting a number of idle, unprincipled wretches, who make a fortune, in earnest, from the purses of the credulous.

PERSONS. MEN. SIDROPHEL — a conjuror, with a bottle . RALPH — his man, and assistant . A MILLER — guilty of bad practices . FARMER — enquiring after his berse, &c . FATHER — enquiring for his children . HOLDFAST — a Justice of the Peace . SHERIFF — ordered by the Justice to take Sidrophol . SUITOR — to Miss Firebrand, enquiring his fortune . SLYBOOTS — country sharper . WOMEN. MOTHER — enquiring for her children . Miss FIREBRAND — courted by the suitor, who was consulting the conjuror .
ACT I.
SCENE I. — Sidrophel and Ralph. Sid.

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Exit Sidrophel
SCENE II. — Ralph and a Farmer. Farm.

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Ralph introduces Sidrophels
SCENE III. — Sidrophel and Farmer. ( The conjuror enters in a great wig, long gown, staff and bottle .) Farm.

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Farm.

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Sid. (takes his bottle and looks wife).

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(looks very wise and important.) Farm.

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(Ex. Sidrophel and Farmer.) (Enter Miss Firebrand.)
SCENE IV. — Firebrand and Sidrophel. Fire.

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Sid.

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Fire.

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ACT II.
SCENE I. — Holdfast and the Sheriff. Hold.

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Exit Sheriff
SCENE II. — Holdfast, followed by Farmer, Miller, Father and Suitor, with a mob, armed with clubs. Hold.

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Far.

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Mil.

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Fath.

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Suit.

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Hold.

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They all raise their clubs at once, and cry Down with his worship, down with the Justice. The conjurer enters at that moment. They all turn their attention to him, and the Justice escapes
SCENE III. — Sidrophel, Miller, Father, Mother and Suitor. Sid.

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Mil.

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Sid. ( tasting his bottle and looking wise )

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Miller stops and pays Fath.

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Sid. ( tasting his bottle )

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Fath. ( pays cheerfully )

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Exit Father Moth.

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Sid. ( tasting his bottle )

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Moth.

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Suit.

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SCENE IV. — Ralph, Sidrophel and Sheriff. Ralph,

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Sid. ( putting on his visor aside )

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( The conjuror comes forward — The sheriff comes on with his warrant, is about to clap Sidrophel on the shoulder when be displays his visor, breathing from his mouth .) Sid.

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Sher. ( in a terrible fright .)

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( Flies off the stage and Sidrophel and Ralph pursues him .)
ACT III.
SCENE I — Slyboots and Sidrophel. Slyboots enters very deliberately Sly.

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( they run out in haste .) ( Holdfast enters .)
SCENE II. — Holdfast and Slyboots. Hold.

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( Drops Laudanun from a vial into the bottle .) Hold.

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SCENE III. — Slyboots and Sidrophel. Sly. ( to Sidrophel .)

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Exit Slyboots
SCENE IV. — Suitor and Sidrophel. Suit.

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Sid. ( tasting his bottle )

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He sinks down and is soon fast asleep
SCENE V. — Holdfast, Sheriff, and assistants; and Slyboots. Hold.

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