The Mummers. 83 
“Ts there no doctor to be found 
To cure a deep and deadly wound ?” 
[A Docror enters, declaring that he has a small phial jilled with 
the juice of some particular plant capable of recalling any one to life ; 
he tries however, and fails, when Sr. GrorcE kills him, enraged by his 
want of success. Soon after this, the Turxisn Kyicur appears per- 
Jectly well, and having been fully convinced of his errors by the strength 
of St. Guorce’s arm, he becomes a Christian, and the scene closes. | 
The Fair, or Market, usually followed as a farce. ‘ Several per- 
sons arranged on benches were supposed to sell corn, and one 
applying to each seller in his turn, enquired the price, using a set 
form of words to be answered in a corresponding manner. If any 
error were committed, a grave personage was introduced, with much 
ceremony, grotesquely attired, and provided with a large stick, 
who, after stipulating for some ludicrous reward, such as a gallon 
of moonlight, proceeded to shoe the untamed colt, by striking the 
persons in error on the sole of the foot.” 
This is the whole of the account given by Mr. D. Gilbert of 
these Cornish Dramas. 
Mr. Hone, in his Every Day Book, (vol. 2, p. 1646,) under the 
date of Christmas Day, gives extracts from a Mumming acted at 
Whitehaven. The title page of it is “ Alexander and the King of 
Egypt, as it is acted by the Mummers every Christmas :—White- 
haven: printed by T. Wilson, King-street ;” (eight pages, 8vo.) 
It appears also from Baker’s Biographia Dramatica (Tit: Alex- 
ander,) that this Drama was printed in 4to. at Newcastle, in 1788. 
The characters are :— 
Tue Kine or Eeypr. 
Prince GeorGE, his son. 
ALEXANDER. 
A Doctor. 
And Acrors who were to be a sort of Chorus. 
The Actors say at the beginning (inter alia) 
“Room! room! brave gallants, give us room to sport, 
For in this room we wish for to resort ; 
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