Mr. Congreve's last will and testament: with characters of his writings. By Mr. Dryden, Sir Richard Blackmore, Mr. Addison and Major Pack. To which are added, two pieces, viz. I. Of rightly improving the present time. ... II. The game of quadrille. An allegory.

Mr. Congreve's last will and testament: with characters of his writings. By Mr. Dryden, Sir Richard Blackmore, Mr. Addison and Major Pack. To which are added, two pieces, viz. I. Of rightly improving the present time. ... II. The game of quadrille. An allegory.

Table of contents

Title page

A TRUE COPY OF THE Last Will and Testament of William Congreve, Esq

THE Duplicate WILL and CODICIL.

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CHARACTERS OF Mr. CONGREVE.

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Mr. Addison's Character OF THE Old BATCHELOR.

Sir Richard Blackmore's CHARACTER OF THE Mourning Bride.

Major PACK's SENTIMENTS IN His Essay on Study.

VERSES To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham. Of Improving the present Time.

THE TRUE COPY OF AN AFFIDAVIT, Made before one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City of Westminster.

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NEW BOOKS Printed for E. Curll in the Strand.

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Mr. CONGREVE's Last Will and Testament, WITH CHARACTERS OF HIS WRITINGS.

BY Mr. DRYDEN, Sir RICHARD BLACKMORE, Mr. ADDISON and Major PACK.

To which are added, Two Pieces, viz.

I. Of rightly Improving the present Time. An Epistle from Mr. CONGREVE to the Right Honourable RICHARD Lord Viscount COBHAM.

II. The GAME of QUADRILLE. An ALLEGORY.

LONDON: Printed for E. CURLL in the Strand, 1729. (Price One Shilling.)

A TRUE COPY OF THE Last Will and Testament of William Congreve, Esq

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E' Registro Curiae Praerogat. Cantuar. Extract.

In the Name of God, Amen.

THIS is the last Will of me William Congreve, of the Parish of St. Clement-Danes, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Esq made [Page] the twenty-sixth Day of February, Anno Dom. 1725; And first I desire, and direct, that my Funeral shall be privately performed, without the least Ostentation, and the Place where, I refer to my Executor to appoint.

I give to the several Persons herein after named, the respective Legacies following (that is to say) To * * * * * * * * * ** my Intention is, that the following Legacies be given to the respective Persons herein named, as if they were inserted in the blank Space left in this Will for that purpose.

IMPRIMIS, I give and bequeath to Anne Jellet, twenty Pounds a Year during her Life.

[Page] Item, To William Congreve, Son of Colonel William Congreve of Highgate, and my Godson, three hundred Pounds.

To Mrs. Anne Congreve, Daughter to my late Kinsman Colonel Ralph Congreve of Clarges-street, two hundred Pounds.

To Mrs. Anne Bracegirdle, of Howard-street, two hundred Pounds.

To Mrs. Francis Porter, fifty Pounds.

Item, To Mrs. Deborah Rooke, one hundred Pounds, with all my Linnen and Apparel; for other less Legacies, I leave them as specified in a Codicil inclosed in the Duplicate of this Will, and left in the Custody of the Dutchess of Marlborough * * * * * * **

[Page] ALL the Rest and Residue of my Estate, the same consisting in personal Things only (not having any Lands, or other real Estate) I give and bequeath to the Dutchess of Marlborough, the now Wife of Francis Earl of Godolphin in the County of Cornwall; but not so as to vest in him the said Earl of Godolphin, the equitable Right and Interest of such Rest and Residue, but that the same and every Part thereof; and the Interest, Produce, and Benefit thereof; shall and may, at all times, from and after my Decease, be had and received by her the said Dutchess, namely, Henrietta, Dutchess of Marlborough, to her sole and separate Use, and wherewith her said Husband, or any after-taken Husband, of her the said Dutchess of Marlborough, shall not intermeddle, or have [Page] any controuling Power over, nor shall the said Rest and Residue, or the Interest and Produce thereof, be liable to the Debts and Incumbrances of the said Earl of Godolphin, or of any after-taken Husband, of her the said Dutchess of Marlborough, in any wise; but shall be had and received, issued and paid, as she the said Dutchess of Marlborough, shall by writing under her Hand, from time to time direct and appoint; and her own Acquittance shall be a sufficient discharge for all, or any Part of the Estate so given to her as aforesaid. And in Confidence of the Honesty and Justice of him the said Francis Earl of Godolphin, I do hereby constitute and appoint him, the sole Executor of this my Will, in Trust, for his said Wife, as aforesaid. [Page] In Witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my Name, and set my Seal, the Day and Year aforesaid.

William Congreve (L. S.)

Signed, sealed, and declared by the, said William Congreve Testator, to be his last Will, in the Presence of Us,

TIMO. KIPLIN,

THOMAS SWAN.

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THE Duplicate WILL and CODICIL.

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In the Name of God, Amen.

THIS is the last Will of me William Congreve, of the Parish of St. Clement-Danes, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Esq made the twenty-sixth of February, Anno Dom. 1725. And first I desire and direct, that my Funeral shall be privately performed without the least Ostentation, and the Place where, I refer to my Executor to appoint. I give to the several Persons herein after-named, the respective Legacies following (that is to say) To * * * * * * * * **

[Page] Legacies intended to be inserted in the blank Space of this Will, and which I desire may be paid, tho' any Thing should prevent my inserting them with my own Hand, in Manner as I have filled up the other Blanks in the same.

IMPRIMIS, To Anne Jellet, twenty Pounds a Year for her Life.

Item, To my Godson William Congreve, Son of Colonel William Congreve of Highgate, three hundred Pounds.

Item, To Anne Congreve, Daughter of the late Colonel Ralph Congreve of Clarges-street, two hundred Pounds.

[Page] Item, To Mrs. Anne Congreve, Her Mother, and to Colonel William Congreve of Highgate, each twenty Pounds.

Item, To Mrs. Anne Bracegirdle of Howard-street, two hundred Pounds.

Item, To Mrs. Deborah Rook, one hundred Pounds, and all my wearing Apparel and Linnen of all Sorts.

Item, To Mrs. Francis Porter, fifty Pounds.

Item, To Peter Walter, Esq of St. Margaret Westminster, twenty Pounds.

Item, To Richard Lord Viscount Cobham, and Richard Lord Viscount Shannon, twenty Pounds each.

Item, To Charles Mein, Esq and Mr. [Page] Edward Porter, and Mr. Joshua White, twelve Pounds each.

Item, To her Grace Henrietta Dutchess of Newcastle, I give and bequeath the Dutchess of Marlborough's Picture, by Kneller.

Item, To the Lady Mary Godolphin, youngest Daughter to the Dutchess of Marlborough, I give and bequeath her Mother's Picture Enamelled, in Miniature, together with my white Brilliant Diamond Ring.

Item, To Colonel Charles Churchill, twenty Pounds, together with my Gold-headed Cane.

Item, To all and each of my Domestick Servants, a Year's Wages, and proper Mourning.

[Page] Item, To the Poor of the Parish, ten Pounds.

ALL the Rest and Residue of my Estate, the same consisting in personal Things only (not having any Lands, or other real Estate) I give and bequeath to Henrietta, Dutchess of Marlborough, the now Wife of Francis Earl of Godolphin in the County of Cornwall; but not so as to vest in him the said Earl of Godolphin, the equitable Right and Interest of such Rest and Residue, but that the same and every Part thereof; and the Interest, Produce, and Benefit thereof; shall and may, at all times, from and after my Decease, be had and received by her the said Dutchess of Marlborough, to her sole and separate Use, and wherewith her said Husband, or any aftertaken [Page] Husband, of her the said Dutchess of Marlborough, shall not intermeddle, or have any controuling Power over, nor shall the said Rest and Residue, or the Interest and Produce thereof, be liable to the Debts and Incumbrances of the said Earl of Godolphin, or of any after-taken Husband, of her the said Dutchess of Marlborough, in any wise; but shall be had and received, issued and paid, as she the said Dutchess of Marlborough, shall by writing under her Hand, from time to time direct and appoint; and her own Acquittance shall be a sufficient Discharge for all, or any Part of the Estate so given to her as aforesaid. And in Confidence of the Honesty and Justice of him the said Francis Earl of Godolphin, I do hereby constitute and appoint him, the sole Executor [Page] of this my Will in Trust, for his said Wife as aforesaid. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my Name, and set my Seal, the Day and Year aforesaid.

William Congreve, (L. S.)

Signed, sealed, and declared by the, said William Congreve the Testator, to be his last Will, in the Presence of Us,

WILLIAM HUMPSTONE,

GEORGE THORPE,

JONATHAN WHITE.

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WHEREAS I William Congreve, did by my last Will and Testament, bearing Date the sixth Day of February 1725; affix a Schedule of Legacies, written in my own Hand, over a blank Space left for that Purpose in the said Will; I do hereby revoke and annual those Legacies, excepting such as are bequeathed to Persons related to me, and bearing my own Hand; as also what is therein bequeathed to Mrs. Anne Jellet, and Mrs. Anne Bracegirdle; which said Legacies, I do hereby confirm, and do hereby revoke and annul, all other Legacies therein mentioned, or in the Counter-part of the said Will, more at large set down; which Counter-part is by me left in Custody of her Grace, Henrietta, Dutchess of Marlborough, my sole Executrix, as is specified in the said Will and Counter-part [Page] thereof; be it understood, that my Intention is by this Writing to revoke those Legacies, not herein confirmed as above-mentioned, in such manner only as to leave them absolutely in the Power and Determination of the abovenamed Henrietta Dutchess of Marlborough, my sole Executrix, either to pay, or refuse to pay to them, to take from them, or add to them, as she shall judge the Persons therein named, especially my Domestick Servants, therein mentioned, or not mentioned, may have merited of me,

William Congreve, (L. S.)

Signed and sealed, in Presence of,

JOSEPH LEE.

WILLIAM HUMPSTONE.

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PROBATUM Londini cum quatuor Codicillis sive schedulis testamentis, annex: tertio Die Mensis Februarij 1728. Coram venli viro Georgio Paul, legum Doctore surrog: &c. Jurato prenobilis, & honli viri Francisci Comitis: de Godolphin, Extris unici, &c. Cui, &c. De bene & Jurat. Lata prius sententia definitiva pro valore, & validitate dicti testamenti prout, ex actis curiae liquet.

LINTHWAITE FARRANT, Registrar: Deputat: Assumpt.

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Mr. CONGREVE died about five o'Clock, on Sunday Morning, January the 19th 1728-9, at his House in Surrey-street in the Strand, in the 57th Year of his Age; and on the Sunday following, January 26th, his Corps lay in State in the Jerusalem Chamber; from whence, the same Evening, between the Hours of Nine and Ten, it was carried, with great Decency and Solemnity, into King HENRY the VIIth's Chapel in Westminster-Abbey, and Interred near the late Earl of Godolphin. The PALL was supported by, I. the Duke of Bridgewater. II. Earl of Godolphin. III. Lord Cobham. IV. Lord Wilmington. V. The Honourable George Berkeley, Esq VI. BrigadierGeneral Churchill. And Colonel Congreve followed the Corps as Chief Mourner.

CHARACTERS OF Mr. CONGREVE.

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IN easy Dialogue is FLETCHER's Praise:

He mov'd the Soul, but had not Power to raise.

Great JOHNSON did by Strength of Judgment please,

Yet doubling FLETCHER's Force, he wants his Ease:

In diff'ring Talents, Both adorn'd their Age;

One for the Study, t'other for the Stage.

But Both to CONGREVE justly shall submit,

ONE match'd in Judgment, BOTH o'er-match'd in Wit.

In Him, All Beauties of this Age we see;

ETHEREGE's Courtship, SOUTHERN's Purity;

The Satire, Wit, and Strength, of manly WYCHERLEY.

DRYDEN.

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Mr. Addison's Character OF THE Old BATCHELOR. *

IN the Character which gives Name to this Play, there is excellently represented the Reluctance of a battered Debaucheé to come into the Trammels of Order and Decency: He neither languishes, nor burns, but frets for Love. The Gentlemen of more regular Behaviour, are drawn with much Spirit and Wit; and the Drama introduced by the Dialogue of the first Scene, with uncommon, yet natural Conversation. The Part of Fondlewife is a lively Image of the unseasonable Fondness of Age and Impotence.

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Sir Richard Blackmore's CHARACTER OF THE Mourning Bride.*

THIS Poem has received, and in my Opinion, very justly, universal Applause; being look'd on as the most perfect Tragedy that has been wrote in this Age. The Fable, as far as I can judge at first Sight, is a very artful and masterly Contrivance; the Characters are well chosen and well [Page] delineated; that of ZARA is admirable. The Passions are well touch'd, and skilfully wrought up. The Diction, proper, clear, beautiful, noble, and diversified agreeably to the Variety of the Subject. Vice, as it ought to be, is punish'd; and oppressed-Innocence at last rewarded. Nature appears very happily imitated (excepting one or two doubtful Instances) thro' the whole Piece; in which there are no immodest Images or Expressions; no wild unnatural Rants, but (some Exceptions being allowed) all Things are chaste, just, and decent.

This Tragedy, as I said before, has mightily obtained, and that without the unnatural and foolish Mixture of Force and Buffoonery; without so much as a Song, or a Dance, to make it [Page] more agreeable. By this it appears, that as a sufficient Genius can recommend itself, and furnish out abundant Matter of Pleasure and Admiration, without the paultry Helps above named; so likewise, that the Taste of the Nation is not so far deprav'd, but that a regular and chaste Play will not only be forgiven, but highly applauded.

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Major PACK's SENTIMENTS IN His Essay on Study.

CONGREVE of all the Moderns, seems to me, to have the rightest Turn for Comedy. In all his Plays there is a great deal of lively and uncommon Humour, and such as yet, for the most Part, is a Picture of true Life. Besides, he hath raised the Vein of Ridicule, and made the STAGE, which had been too much prostituted to the Mob, edifying to Persons of the [Page] first Condition. And as his Fable is Diverting, so is it wrought according to the strictest Rules.

The following EPISTLE, Of rightly improving the present Time, written to Lord Cobham, is here printed from a Manuscript of the Author, with which I was obliged by a Person of the first Rank: The Public having been notoriously abused, by a very erroneous Copy, surreptitiously obtained, by one LEWIS in Covent-Garden, and vended under the Cover of A. DODD, and E. NUTT.

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VERSES To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham.
Of Improving the present Time.

SINCEREST Critic of my Prose, or Rhime,

Tell how thy pleasing STOWE† employs thy Time.

Say, COBHAM, what amuses thy Retreat?

Or Stratagems of War, or Schemes of State?

Dost thou recal to Mind with Joy, or Grief,

Great MARLBRO's Actions? That immortal Chief,

Whose slightest Trophy rais'd in each Campaign,

More than suffic'd to signalize a Reign?

[Page] Does thy Remembrance rising warm thy Heart,

With Glory past, where Thou thy self hadst Part,

Or dost thou grieve indignant, now to see,

The fruitless End of all thy Victory?

To see th' Audacious Foe, so late subdu'd,

Dispute those Terms for which so long they su'd,

As if BRITANNIA now were sunk so low,

To beg that PEACE she wonted to bestow,

Be far that Guilt! be never known that Shame!

That ENGLAND shou'd retract her rightful Claim,

Or ceasing to be dreaded and ador'd,

Stain with her Pen the Lustre of her Sword.

Or dost thou give the Winds a-far to blow,

Each vexing-Thought, and Heart-devouring Woe,

And fix thy Mind alone on rural Scenes,

To turn the level'd Lawns to liquid Plains,

To raise the creeping Rills from humble Beds,

And force the latent Springs to lift their Heads,

On watry Columns, Capitals to rear,

That mix their flowing Curls with upper Air.

Or dost Thou, weary grown, these Works neglect,

No Temples, Statues, Obelisks erect,

But catch the morning Breeze from fragrant Meads,

Or shun the Noon-tide Ray in wholsom Shades,

[Page] Or slowly walk, along the mazy Wood,

To meditate on all that's wise and good,

For Nature bountiful, in Thee has join'd,

A Person pleasing with a worthy Mind,

Not given the Form alone, but Means, and Art,

To draw the Eye, or to allure the Heart.

Poor were the Praise in Fortune to excel,

Yet want the Way to use that Fortune well.

While thus adorn'd, while thus with Virtue crown'd,

At Home, in Peace; Abroad, in Arms renown'd;

Graceful in Form, and winning in Address,

While well you think, what aptly you express,

With Health, with Honour, with a fair Estate,

A Table free, and elegantly neat.

What can be added more to mortal Bliss?

What can he want that stands possest of This?

What can the fondest wishing Mother more,

Of Heaven attentive for her Son implore?

And yet a Happiness remains unknown,

Or to Philosophy reveal'd alone;

A Precept, which unpractis'd renders vain,

Thy flowing Hopes, and Pleasure turns to Pain.

Shou'd Hope, and Fear thy Heart alternate tear,

Or Love, or Hate, or Rage, or anxious Care,

[Page] Whatever Passions may thy Mind infest,

(Where is that Mind which Passions ne'er molest?)

Amidst the Pangs of such intestine Strife,

Still think the PRESENT DAY, the LAST of LIFE;

Defer not till to Morrow to be Wise,

To Morrow's SUN, to Thee may never rise.

Or shou'd to Morrow chance to cheer thy Sight,

With her enliv'ning and unlookt-for Light,

How grateful will appear her dawning Rays!

As Favours unexpected doubly please.

Who thus can think, and who such Thoughts pursues,

Content may keep his Life, or calmly lose;

All Proofs of this Thou may'st thy self receive,

When Leisure from Affairs will give thee Leave.

Come, see thy Friend, retir'd without Regret,

Forgetting Care, or striving to forget;

In easy Contemplation soothing Time

With Morals much, and now and then with Rhime,

Not so robust in Body, as in Mind,

And always undejected, tho' declin'd;

Not wond'ring at the World's new wicked Ways,

Compar'd with those of our Fore-fathers Days,

[Page] For Virtue now is neither more or less,

And Vice is only vary'd in the Dress:

Believe it, Men have ever been the same,

And Ovid's GOLDEN AGE, is but a Dream.

WILLIAM CONGREVE.

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See, His Preface to Prince ARTHUR, Fol. 1697.

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The Name of his Lordship's SEAT in Buckinghamshire.

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THE TRUE COPY OF AN AFFIDAVIT, Made before one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City of Westminster.

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THAT four LADIES, whom the Deponent does not care to Name, repair nightly to a certain convenient Place, near St. James's, to meet their GALLANTS of the first Rank; whom your Deponent will not Name, but so far describe them, that two [Page] of them are Sallow, and two of the ruddy Complexion; and that he verily believes, they were most abominably painted.

The LADIES when they begin their Gambols, call their GALLANTS by the fond Nick-names of Hercules, Cupid, Pit, and the Gardiner. After a plentiful Service of the most costly Fare, they begin their Tricks which they play like the Tumblers in Bartholomew-Fair upon a Carpet, strip is the Word; nay, your Deponent has known them strip a Gentleman who came accidently into the House. At first, they begin pretty courtly, at least in their Expressions, as, Madam, by your leave, or so; which the LADIES are so good as seldom to deny. Afterwards, it is shameful to describe the Tricks that are play'd by this lewd Pack. By an established [Page] Rule, each Lady has the Choice of her Gallant in her Turn, and some have been known so unreasonable, after they have had Three, to call for a Fourth. Your Deponent has seen a Lady on her Back, a Man o'Top of her, and a Lady o'Top of him; and he avers, it has been known, that a Court Valet has stript them all. Sometimes they are thrown on their Backs, sometimes on their Bellies now higgledy piggledy, and anon, they are all o'Top of one another; and if any one is call'd upon, they are oblig'd to show ALL. Of the same Nature is their Discourse, your Deponent has often over-heard them talking of their A—es, with the same Familiarity as their Faces; I have a Black one, says one, and named the Thing directly; mine is better than yours, says the other, [Page] and Names her Thing; must I be laught at, says a Third, because I have a red one. There is one monstrous Thing that your Deponent is almost ashamed to mention; after Six, a Lady has asked if they could do no more; nay, a certain Lady has been known to play all the Tricks over by her self. Your Deponent likewise avers, that he has full Proof, after the LADIES have been tired with their GALLANTS, they have called for fresh ones: In short the aforesaid LADIES, have not only, spent their Pin-Money, but their Husband's Estates, upon Hercules, Cupid, Pit, and the Gardiner, and when they want more Money, they commonly Pawn their Jewels, &c.

Westminster ss.

Jurat. Coram me, T. T.

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P.S. The above Information is a faithful Description of the GAME of QUADRILLE, not to be Litterally, but Allegorically, understood.

THO. WOOLSTON.

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There is now in the Press,

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS and Familiar Letters. By William Congreve, Esq To which will be prefix'd, Memoirs of his Life, Writings, and Amours. By Charles Wilson, Esq

NEW BOOKS Printed for E. Curll in the Strand.

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[Page] The Lives and Last Wills and Testaments of the following Persons.

WILLS of the,

1. Earl of Halifax,

2. Mr. Addison,

3. Mr. Prior,

4. Mr. Locke,

5. Mr. Nelson,

6. Dr. Radcliffe,

7. Dr. Williams,

8. Dr. South,

9. Dr. Hickes,

10. Dr. Burnet,

11. Bp. Burnet,

12. Mr. Partridge,

13. Mr. Mahomet, Servant to his late Majesty.

Any of these may be had single.

LIVES of,

1. Archbishop Tillotson,

2. Bishop Atterbury,

3. Bishop Curll,

4. Elias Ashmore Esq

5. Duke Hamilton,

6. Duke of Leeds,

7. Earl of Godolphin,

8. Earl of Ranelaugh,

9. Earl Rivers,

10. Lord Mohun,

11. Lieut. Gen. Wood,

12. Ar. Manwayring Esq

13. Mr. Richard Cromwell.

The four first may be had single, the nine last are all in one Volume.

(Price 6s. Bound.)

All sold by E. Curll.

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Mr. Congreve's last will and testament: with characters of his writings. By Mr. Dryden, Sir Richard Blackmore, Mr. Addison and Major Pack. To which are added, two pieces, viz. I. Of rightly improving the present time. ... II. The game of quadrille. An allegory.

Congreve, William, 1670-1729.

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University of Michigan Library

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Ann Arbor, Michigan

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2009 April

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— Mr. Congreve's last will and testament: with characters of his writings. By Mr. Dryden, Sir Richard Blackmore, Mr. Addison and Major Pack. To which are added, two pieces, viz. I. Of rightly improving the present time. ... II. The game of quadrille. An allegory., Congreve, William, 1670-1729..

Extent

[2],38p. ; 8⁰.

printed for E. Curll,. London :: 1729.. ('The game of quadrille' is by Thomas Woolston.) ('New books printed for E. Curll in the Strand.' pp.35-38.) (Also issued as part of some issues of: 'Memoirs of the life, writings, and amours of William Congreve Esq;', London, 1730.) (Reproduction of original from the British Library.) (Pforzheimer, 212) (English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT74230.) (Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group).)

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