title: Eight Great Comedies: The Complete Texts of the World's Great Comedies from Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century
author: Sylvan Barnet
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  # The Dupe, a comedy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan
  
  
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  ACT I.
  
  
    
  SCENE I.
  
  
    
  SCENE II.
  
  
    
  SCENE III.
  
  
    
  SCENE IV.
  
  
  ACT II.
  
  
    
  SCENE I.
  
  
    
  SCENE II.
  
  
    
  SCENE III.
  
  
    
  SCENE IV.
  
  
    
  SCENE V.
  
  
    
  SCENE VI.
  
  
  ACT III.
  
  
    
  SCENE I.
  
  
    
  SCENE II.
  
  
    
  SCENE III.
  
  
    
  SCENE IV.
  
  
    
  SCENE V.
  
  
    
  SCENE VI.
  
  
    
  SCENE VII.
  
  
  ACT IV.
  
  
    
  SCENE I.
  
  
    
  SCENE II.
  
  
    
  SCENE III.
  
  
    
  SCENE IV.
  
  
  ACT V.
  
  
    
  SCENE I.
  
  
    
  SCENE II.
  
  
    
  SCENE III.
  
  
    
  SCENE IV.
  
  
    
  SCENE V.
  
  
    
  SCENE VI.
  
  
  PROLOGUE.
  
  
  _The_ paths of Truth with Fancy's flowers to strove,
  
  
  To teach improvement from delight to flow,
  
  
  The bards of old first bade the Comic strain
  
  
  With mirth instruct, with moral entertain.
  
  
  No vice or folly that disgrac'd the age
  
  
  Escap'd the daring Poet's honest rage;
  
  
  But Satire, uncontroll'd, pursu'd her plan,
  
  
  Nor stopp'd at general lines, b