From the 'Rambler's Magazine'. The interior of a barn, filled with strolling players. A man (left), dressed only in breeches, shoes, and stockings, stands looking at a woman who is ironing a shirt on a table; he says, "Iron my shirt in an instant". A girl on the extreme left is twisting his pigtail queue. Two men wearing hats stand behind the table, saying, "Tis woman that seduces all mankind and Brother w'are both in the wrong". A stout woman attempts to pull on a pair of breeches, saying, "My breeches are too small". A woman holding an open book looks over her left shoulder to say "Button the Lady's breeches"; she appears to be addressing a man dressed as a military officer who holds an open book, saying, "Let us take the road".  On the extreme right a woman seated by a table is saying "And he so pleas'd me". On the wall a playbill is stuck up, 'Beggars Opera...Filch...'.
<p><br>On a pile of hay or straw are properties: a crown, sceptre, trumpet, &amp;c.  1 June 1784
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1784<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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