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The Way of the World

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The Way of the World (1700)
by William Congreve

a play premiering in 1700 widely regarded as being one of the best Restoration comedies written and is still performed sporadically to this day

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Facsimile of the original title page of The Way of the World

THE
WAY OF THE WORLD,
A'
COMEDY.


As it is ACTED
AT THE
Theater in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields,
BY

His Majeſty's Servants.



Written by: MR. CONGREVE



Audire est operae pretium, prcedere recte
Qui maechis non vultis— —HOR. Sat. i. 2, 37.
—Metuat doti deprenſa.— —Ibid.

LONDON:
Printed for Jacob Tonſon, within Gray's-Inn-Gate next
Gray's-Inn-Lane. 1700.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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