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Colley Cibber · 1721 · Scanned text

294,859 words · about 20 h 39 min to read

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Author
Colley Cibber
Language
English
Published
1721
Length
294,859 words · about 20 h 39 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter about 7 min
  2. Prologue about 5 h 14 min
  3. Epilogue about 15 h 18 min

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Front matter

* PLAYS WRITTEN BY Mr. C 1 B B E R In TWO VOLUMES. V o l. I. Containing, Love's Last Shift ; or, The Fool in Fashion. The Tragical History of King Richard the Third. Love makes a Man; or, The Fop's Fortune. She would, and she would not ; or, The Kind I m postor. The Careless Husband. IjfP NT> 0 N; Printed for Jacob Tonjon, over against Catherine-Street, in the Strand; Bernard Lintot, at the Cuss-Keys between the Temple-Gates. Fleetftreet ; William Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar _ and William Chetwood,, at Cato's-Head, Rujsel-street- Cwtnt-Garden. M.dcc.xxi. * * SUBSCRIBERS to these Two Volumes. A. IS Grace the 0/ Argyll. I'he Right Honourable the Lord I Afhburnham. E. Richard Edgcombe Esq; Giles Earl Esq; Richard Arundell Esq; Richard Abel Esq; ' F. B. The Right Hon.the Earl of Ferrers.

S. Pargiter Fuller Esq; Kenelm Fawkener Esq; Henry Furnesse Esq; The Right Honourable the Earl of Burford. The Rt Honourable the ior^Bingley. The Rt Honour ab. the Lord Bathurst Sir George Beaumont Baronet. John Blaithwait Esq; Martin Bladen Esq; Eustace Budgell Esq; Alexander Brady Esq; Mr. Barton Booth. G. His Grace the Tiuhe of Grafton. The Right Hon. the Lord Guilford. The Right Honourable the Lord Gowqi: Sir William Gage Baronet. Walter Greenwood Esq ; Mr. Barnham Goode. C. His Grace the .Duke of Chandois. m The Right Honourable the Ld Craven. The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham. The Right Ho?iourable the Lord Carlton, Two Sets. The Rt Hon. James Craggs Jun. Esq; Thomas Coke (of Norfolk) Esq; Williams Conyngham Esq; Six Sets. Walter Carey Esq; The Honourable Colonel John Campbel.

The Honourable Colonel Peter Campbel. The Honourable Colonel Char.Churchill. The Honourable Colonel John Charteris. Thomas Cowper Esq; Mr. Anthony Cornish. H. The Right Hon. the Z^f/tf/ Holderness. The Right Hon. the Earl of Hallifax. The Right Hon. the Lord Viscotmt Hillsborough, Two Sets. The Honourable Colonel Hara. • Sir Gustavus Humes Baronet. Colonel John Hart. John Hill Esq; Samuel Hill Esq; John Hungerford Esq; John Hamden Esq; John Hedges Esq; James Halden Esq; Mr. John James Heidegger. Mr. Edmond Hoy le. Mr. John Herring. Mr. Hawling. D. His Grace the tDuke of Dorset. The Right Hon. the Earl 0/Deloraine, The Hon. Brigadier James Dormer. Fleetwood Dormer Esq; Mrs. Anne Debert. I. The Right Hon. the Earl of Ma. Roger Jones Esq; K The Subscribers Names, Mr, Erasmus Philips* Mrs. Mary Porter..

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