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London Printed for J.Bell. British Library Strand. June 13.

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SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE.

FROM a situation in her Infancy so obscure that no traces are left to speak of any instruction she ever received, with penury driving her from one place to another a pensioner upon chance, SuSANNAH by the help of much sprightliness and beauty forced herself into three nuptials for her charms, and an admiration of her talents, to which the Stage seems in no haste to affix a boundary.

She married as early as sixteen-We hope that was her first connection; though her Biographers pick up a Cambridge Student by the way side, and send her in the male habit to College with him, where they tell us she resided a considerable time. -If she married at sixteen, one should conceive her composed of the inflammable materials of the Spanish females.

A single year compelled her to look abroad for a second husband; and she soon captivated a gentleman whose name was CARROL : him she is said to have tenderly loved. He, however, lost his life in a duel, about a year and a half after their mar

riage. She was driven again upon expedic tried the Stage. She wrote a Tragedy, c Perjur'd Husband; she even attempted t fession of an Actress-We learn, howev she was unsuccessful. At length, plenty after her in the shape of Mr. JOSEPH CENTL He was Her Majesty's Cook; and with 1 lived happily until the time of her death, 1st of December 1723.

Her Plays are in number nineteen, as follow

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