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The country–wife: [a comedy, acted at the Theatre Royal, 1675]

 
dc.contributor Burnard, Lou Oxford University Computing Services Oxford
dc.contributor.author Wycherley, William, 1640-1716
dc.coverage.placeName Menston
dc.date.accessioned 2018-06-14
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-21T09:50:34Z
dc.date.available 2022-08-21T09:50:34Z
dc.date.created 1675
dc.identifier ota:3038
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3038
dc.description.abstract Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., London : printed for Thomas Dring, at the Harrow, at the Corner of Chancery–Lane in Fleet–street, 1675.
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dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh English drama (Comedy)
dc.title The country–wife: [a comedy, acted at the Theatre Royal, 1675]
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identifier.ee Wycherley, William, 1640-1716 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/wychewilli005077
identifier.lccn Wycherley, William, 1640-1716 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79066666
otaterms.date.range 1600-1699

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The Country-Wife,
a Comedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal
Written by
Mr.
Wycherley
.
Indignor quicquam reprehendi, non quia crassè
Compositum illepidéve putetur, sed quia nuper:
Nec veniam Antiquis, sed honorem & præmia possi.
Horat.
LONDON, Printed for
Thomas Dring
, at the
Harrow
. at the Corner of
Chancery-Lane
in
Fleet-street
. 1675.
PROLOGUE, spoken by Mr
Hart.
Poets like Cudgel'd Bullys, never do
At first, or second blow, submit to you;
But will provoke you still, and ne're have done,
Till you are weary first, with laying on:
The late so basted Scribler of this day,
Though he stands trembling, bids me boldly say,
What we, before most Playes are us'd to do,
For Poets out of fear, first draw on you;
In a fierce Prologue, the still Pit defie,
And e're you speak, like
Castril
, give the lye;
But though our
Bayses
Batles oft I've fought,
And with bruis'd knuckles, their dear Conquests bought;
Nay, never yet fear'd Odds upon the Stage,
In Prologue dare not Hector with the Age,
But wou'd t . . .
										
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