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Never acted here. For the benefit of Mr. Collins at the New Theatre in King-Street, on Friday evening, being the 13th of this instant August ... between the several parts of the concert will be presented (gratis) by a company of comedias from the Theatres-Royal in London, a tragedy call'd Oedipus, King of Thebes (written by Dryden and Lee) ... : at the end of hte play, Mr. Collins will treat all his friends with A dish of beans and bacon ... to which will be added a farce call'd The sheep-shearing, or Florizel and Perdita ...

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New Theatre (Birmingham, England). Never acted here. For the benefit of Mr. Collins at the New Theatre in King-Street, on Friday evening, being the 13th of this instant August ... between the several parts of the concert will be presented (gratis) by a company of comedias from the Theatres-Royal in London, a tragedy call'd Oedipus, King of Thebes (written by Dryden and Lee) ... : at the end of hte play, Mr. Collins will treat all his friends with A dish of beans and bacon ... to which will be added a farce call'd The sheep-shearing, or Florizel and Perdita .... [not before 1774]. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/33230597.

APA, 6th edition

New Theatre (Birmingham, England). ([not before 1774])[Never acted here. For the benefit of Mr. Collins at the New Theatre in King-Street, on Friday evening, being the 13th of this instant August ... between the several parts of the concert will be presented (gratis) by a company of comedias from the Theatres-Royal in London, a tragedy call'd Oedipus, King of Thebes (written by Dryden and Lee) ... : at the end of hte play, Mr. Collins will treat all his friends with A dish of beans and bacon ... to which will be added a farce call'd The sheep-shearing, or Florizel and Perdita ...]. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/33230597.

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Never acted here. For the benefit of Mr. Collins at the New Theatre in King-Street, on Friday evening, being the 13th of this instant August ... between the several parts of the concert will be presented (gratis) by a company of comedias from the Theatres-Royal in London, a tragedy call'd Oedipus, King of Thebes (written by Dryden and Lee) ... : at the end of hte play, Mr. Collins will treat all his friends with A dish of beans and bacon ... to which will be added a farce call'd The sheep-shearing, or Florizel and Perdita ...