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REAT Part of these Sheets having been printed a good while, has occasion'd a Necessity of this Supplement to compleat the Design of the Book, in giving the Reader an Account of all the Plays that have been hitherto printed; some whereof were accidentally omitted in their proper Places. HIS Author has lately publish'd another Comedy, call'd, The Pretenders; or, The Town Unmask'd, a Comedy, acted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by his Majesty's Servants; and dedicated to Thomas Barnadiston, of Ketton, in Suffolk, Esq; I have little to say to this Play, for 'tis not fair to attack a Man that's down, tho' I do not think (considering what Plays have pleas'd) that this ought to have met with so severe a Fate. Vainthroat seems a Copy of Medley, and Scandal; Sir Bellamour, a faint Shadow of the Plain Dealer, or at least of Blunt in The Committee; Captain Bounceby we have had in various Plays, as The Squire of Alsatia, Old Batchelor, Epsom Wells, &c. Since the Miscarriage of this Play, the Author died. His Author has lately publish'd another Play, call'd, The Campaigners; or, The Pleasant Adventures at Brussels; with a Familiar Preface upon a late Reformer of the Stage; ending with