To those honoured ladies and gentlemen, condescending to encourage, his neat new invented medicinal chests, travelling dispensaries, or useful repositories for health and amusement, with their patronage or protection, the following allegorical prologue and epilogue, taken from scenes in real life, and now (for the first time) adapted to the new medley, or musical entertainment of the sailors happy return, together with the mariners dream and other pieces ... are respectfully addressed, and most humbly recommended to their perusal, by their humble servant, to command, the proprietor.

Date:

[between 1780 and 1789?]