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The Profligate

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THE PLAYS OF ARTHUR W. PINERO

Paper cover, 1s 6d; cloth, 2s 6d each

THE TIMES

THE PROFLIGATE

THE CABINET MINISTER

THE HOBBY-HORSE

LADY BOUNTIFUL

THE MAGISTRATE

DANDY DICK

SWEET LAVENDER

THE SCHOOLMISTRESS

THE WEAKER SEX

THE AMAZONS

[A]THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY

THE NOTORIOUS MRS. EBBSMITH

THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT

THE PRINCESS AND THE BUTTERFLY

TRELAWNY OF THE “WELLS”

[B]THE GAY LORD QUEX

IRIS

LETTY

A WIFE WITHOUT A SMILE

HIS HOUSE IN ORDER

THE THUNDERBOLT

MID-CHANNEL

PRESERVING MR. PANMURE

THE “MIND THE PAINT” GIRL

THE PINERO BIRTHDAY BOOK

Selected and Arranged by MYRA HAMILTON With a Portrait, cloth extra, price 2s 6d.

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

The Profligate A PLAY In Four Acts

By ARTHUR W. PINERO

“It is a good and soothfast saw; Half-roasted never will be raw; No dough is dried once more to meal, No crock new-shapen by the wheel; You can’t turn curds to milk again, Nor Now, by wishing back to Then; And having tasted stolen honey, You can’t buy innocence for money.”

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

First Printed, 1891 New Impressions, 1902, 1909, 1914

All applications respecting amateur performances of this play must be made to Mr. Pinero’s Agents, Samuel French Limited, 26 Southampton Street, Strand, London, W.C.

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