The country–wife : [a comedy, acted at the Theatre Royal, 1675] / written by Mr. [William] Wycherley
| dc.contributor | Burnard, Lou Oxford University Computing Services Oxford |
| dc.contributor.author | Wycherley, William, 1640-1716 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | Menston |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:57:31Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:57:31Z |
| dc.date.created | 1969 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-02-01 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1781 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1781 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1781 |
| 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. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (2 files : ca. 235, 251 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.isreplacedby | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3038 |
| dc.rights | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.rights.uri | https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/page/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English drama (Comedy) |
| dc.subject.other | English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 |
| dc.title | The country–wife : [a comedy, acted at the Theatre Royal, 1675] / written by Mr. [William] Wycherley |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 262374 |
| files.count | 2 |
| identifier.ee | Wycherley, William, 1640-1716 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/wychewilli005077 |
| 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 |
| identifier.lccn | Wycherley, William, 1640-1716 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79066666 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<text>
<front>
<titlePage>
<docTitle><titlePart type=main>The Country-Wife, </titlePart>
<titlePart type=sub>a Comedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal</titlePart>
<byLine>Written by
<docAuthor>Mr. <hi>Wycherley</hi>.</docAuthor></byLine>
<epigraph lang=LAT>
<lg type=frag><l>Indignor quicquam reprehendi, non quia crassè
<l>Compositum illepidéve putetur, sed quia nuper:
<l>Nec veniam Antiquis, sed honorem & præmia possi.
</lg><bibl>Horat.</bibl></epigraph>
<docImprint>
LONDON, Printed for <name>Thomas Dring</name>, at the
<hi>Harrow</hi>. at the Corner of
<hi>Chancery-Lane</hi> in <hi>Fleet-street</hi>. 1675.
</docImprint>
</titlePage>
<div type=prologue>
<head>PROLOGUE, spoken by Mr <hi>Hart.</hi></head>
<l>Poets like Cudgel'd Bullys, never do</l>
<l>At first, or second blow, submit to you;</l>
<l>But will provoke you still, and ne're have done,</l>
<l>Till you are weary first, with laying on:</l>
<l>The late so basted Scribler of this day,</l . . .
