s occasion was written by Mr. Clement Scott.
I know not if the play has been acted since that date.

_Bibliography_. The first edition was published in a small
quarto (78 pages) by Bernard Lintott, 'at the Cross-Keys
next Nando's Coffeehouse in Fleet Street' between the two
Temple gates. The British Museum Catalogue dates it 1707
(the copy in my possession, however, bears no date), but it is
supposed not to have been published till 1710, three years
after Farquhar's decease; whence some have erroneously dated
his death in that year. Lintott, on January 27, 1707, had
paid the dramatist L30. in advance for this play, double what
he usually gave for a play. The same publisher issued the
first complete edition of Farquhar's plays in an octavo volume,
dedicated to John Eyre, with a quaint illustration prefixed to
each play (we reproduce that prefixed to _The Beaux-Stratagem_),
introducing all the characters of the play, and a frontispiece
representing Farquhar being presented to Apollo by Ben
Jonson. The general title-page is undated, but the title-pages
of the various plays bear the date 1711, and all bear Lintott's
name (sometimes alone, sometimes with others) save _Sir Harry
Wildair_, which is said to be printed by James Knapton. Some
say this volume did not appear till 1714. In 1760 Rivington
published an edition of Farquhar which appears to be slightly
'bowdlerised.' At least two complete editions of his works
were published in Dublin; one, described as the seventh, in
two volumes small octavo, by Risk and Smith, in 1743 (including
a memoir, and _Love and Business_), in which the title-pages
of the various plays bear different dates, ranging from 1727
to 1741, _The Beaux-Stratagem_ being described as the twelfth
edition, and dated 1739; the other, charmingly printed by
Ewing in three 16mo volumes, dated 1775, with a vignette
portrait and other illustrations, and containing a life by Thomas
Wilkes. An Edinburgh edition of The _Beaux-Stratagem_, with
life, appeared in 1768, and an edition in German in 1782 by J.
Leonhardi, under the title _Die Stutzerlist_. Separate editions
of the play also appeared in 1748, 1778, and 1824 (New York),
and it is included in all the various collections of English
plays, such as Bell's, Oxberry's, Inchbald's, Dibdin's,
Cumberland's, etc., and in the collected editions of Farquhar's
works dated 1718, 1728, 1736, 1742, 1760, and 1772. The principal
modern editions of Farquhar are Leigh Hu