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Title: The Constant Couple
or, A Trip to the Jubilee

Author: George Farquhar

Release Date: May 18, 2010 [eBook #32419]

Language: English

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THE CONSTANT COUPLE;

Or,

A Trip to the Jubilee;

A Comedy, in Five Acts;

by

GEORGE FARQUHAR, ESQ.

As Performed at the Theatres Royal,
Drury Lane and Covent Garden.

Printed Under the Authority of the Managers
from the Prompt Book.

With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald.

London:
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme,
Paternoster Row.

William Savage, Printer,
London.

REMARKS.

George Farquhar, the author of this comedy, was the son of a clergyman
in the north of Ireland. He was born in the year 1678, discovered an
early taste for literature, and wrote poetic stanzas at ten years of
age.

In 1694 he was sent to Trinity College, Dublin, and there made such
progress in his studies as to acquire considerable reputation. But he
was volatile and poor--the first misfortune led him to expense; the
second, to devise means how to support his extravagance.

The theatre has peculiar charms for men of letters. Whether as a subject
of admiration or animadversion, it is still a source of high amusement;
and here Farquhar fixed his choice of a profession, in the united
expectations of pleasure and of profit--he appeared on the stage as an
actor, and was disappointed of both.

The author of this licentious comedy is said to have possessed the
advantages of person, manners, and elocution, to qualify him for an
actor; but that he could never overcome his natural t