FAIR QUAKER OF DEAL
JEN I AM CONTENT ACCORDING TOHIS
DESIRE TO BE THY HELPMATE

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London Printed for J.Bell British Library Strand. Jan 271792.

THE

FAIR QUAKER OF DEAL;

OR, THE

HUMOURS OF THE NAVY.

A

COMEDY.

BY MR. CHARLES SHADWELL.

ADAPTED FOR

THEATRICAL REPRESENTATION,

AS PERFORMED AT THE

THEATRE-ROYAL, IN DRURY-LANE.

REGULATED FROM THE PROMPT-BOOK,
By Permission of the Manager.

"The Lines distinguished by inverted Commas, are omitted in the Representation,"

LONDON:

Printed for the Proprietors, under the Direction of JOHN BELL, British Library, STRAND, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

MDCCXCI.

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TO MY GENEROUS AND OBLIGING

FRIENDS

OF THE

COUNTY OF KENT.

GENTLEMEN,

THIS Play was both designed and finished in your county, and therefore comes for protection to the place of its nativity. It drags not a sluggish and unwilling pace, as timorous of its reception, and the hardness of its fate; but pants for its native air, where it was brought forth with pleasure, and flies to the good treatment of your experienced hospitality.

To fix upon any particular patron from among you, would be a general offence, because so many of you have a special claim to my gratitude for your peculiar favours; and to incorporate you, by name, into one common body, would require a college of heralds to order the precedence, and a more difficult exactness to marshal mý obligations. I rather choose to confess them by a general acknowledg ment; and as each of you know what title you have to my thanks, 1 pay them in due proportion,