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Title
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Mummers' play
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Writer
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Unknown
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The play
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Characters
St. George
Boney
Herald
Doctor
Humpty Jack
St. George
I am St. George of Merry England;
I offer defiance to all England's enemies.
Herald
A doctor! Ten pounds for a noble doctor.
[Enter Jack Finney, a doctor]
Jack Finney
My name's Jack Finney, a man of great power.
I can cure the itch, the pitch, the pox, the palsy and the gout,
All things within and without.
One, Jack Jenk's wife, had the rheumatics in one of her elbows.
I cured she, and she died;
And now I can cure this man,
Who shall rise up and fight St. George again.
[The doctor gives a pill to the wounded man, who instantly rises]
[Other champions, un-named, fight St. George, but all are slain.]
[To conclude, Enter Humpty Jack]
Humpty Jack
Here come I, old Humpty Jack,
With my wife and children on my back,
And out o' 'leven I got but seven,
And all the rest be gone to heaven.
