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Years: He became very eminent for his Poetry, to which he discovered an early propension. And, pity it is, that this agreeable Writer had not discovered his Wit, without any Mixture of that Licentiousness, which, tho' it pleased, tended to corrupt the Audience. <i>The Relapse</i> was the first Play our Author produced, but not the first he had written; for he had at that Time by him, all the Scenes of <i>The Provok'd Wife</i>; but being then doubtful whether he should ever trust it to the Stage, he flung it by, and thought no more of it: Why the last written Play was first acted, and for what Reason they were given to different Stages, what follows will explain. Upon our Author's first Step into public Life, when he was but an Ensign in the Army, and had a Heart greatly above his Income, he happened somewhere at his Winter Quarters, upon a slender Acquaintance with Sir <i>Thomas Skipwith</i>, to receive a particular Obligation from him; and many Years afterwards, when Sir <i>Thomas</i>'s Interest in a Theatrical Patent (which he had a large Share in, though he little concerned himself in the Conduct of it) was rising but very slowly, Sir <i>John</i> thought that to give it a lift by a new Comedy, might be the handsomest

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