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A40960
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Love and a bottle a comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane by His Majesty's servants / written by Mr. George Farquhar.
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Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707.
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1699
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Wing F518; ESTC R7143
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