the mean time, it will be every one’s Duty to run from a Place of such Infection, least they contribute to the spreading a Disease which may, in time, prove Fatal to the whole Nation.  But I forget, Madam, I am intrenching upon your Patience, while I detain you in a place you have so long abandon’d.  I am fallen upon a Subject, which ’tis difficult not to say much of:  but I shall no longer interrupt your better Thoughts, than while I beg Pardon for this Trouble, who am,

Madam,
Your very Humble Servant. 
Jan. 10th.
1704.

A / Representation / of the / Impiety & Immorality / of the / English Stage, / with / Reasons for putting a Stop thereto:  / and some Questions Addrest to / those who frequent the Play-/ Houses. / London, / Printed, and are to be Sold by J. Nutt / near Stationers-Hall, 1704 / [enclosed within double frame of rules]

Collation:  A8 B4.  Pp. [ 1-] 24.  P. [1] title, as above; p. [2] blank; pp. 3-24 text.

Three editions were issued in 1704.  If we take the author’s words literally, the pamphlet was written between the “Great Storm” of November 26, 1703 and the day of fasting decreed by Queen Anne for January 19, 1704.  According to Arthur Bedford (’The Evil and Danger of Stage Plays’ ...  London, 1706) the pamphlet was published “At the Time of the Fast ...”

Colton Storm

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Editors of the Augustan Reprint Society wish to thank the following people for assistance rendered during the first year of the society’s publication: 

      Mr. Warner G. Rice, Director of the Library, University of
      Michigan. 
      Mr. Stanley Pargellis, Director of the Newberry Library, Chicago. 
      Mr. William Jackson, Director of the Houghton Library, Harvard
      University. 
      Mr. R. B. Downs, Director of the Library, University of Illinois. 
      Mr. Leslie Bliss, Director of the Henry E. Huntington Library, San
      Marino, California. 
      Mr. Colton Storm, Curator of Manuscripts and Maps, William L.
      Clements Library, University of Michigan. 
      Miss Ella M. Hymans, Curator of Rare Books, General Library,
      University of Michigan. 
      Alvina Woodford, Photostat Department, General Library, University
      of Michigan. 
      Cal Markham, Edwards Bros., Ann Arbor.

The Augustan Reprint Society

announces its schedule of publications for the SECOND YEAR

May, 1947: 
      Series I, no. 3—­John Gay’s THE PRESENT STATE OF WIT and a section
      on wit from THE ENGLISH THEOPHRASTUS.  With an Introduction by
      Donald Bond. 
July, 1947: 
      Series II, no. 3—­Rapin’s DE CARMINE PASTORALI, translated by
      Creech.  With an Introduction by J. E. Congleton.