# The Inconstant: or, the Way to Win Him. A comedy ... Written by Mr. George Farquhar

**Slug:** `farquhar_inconstant_1702`  
**Priority:** 3  
**Author:** George Farquhar (from Fletcher's The Wild-Goose Chase)  
**Edition / date:** London, 1702. FIRST edition.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_the-inconstant-or-the-_farquhar-george_1702` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-inconstant-or-the-_farquhar-george_1702
  - catalogue title: The inconstant: or, the way to win him. A comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-lane. By his Majesty's servants. Written by Mr Farquhar.  1702
  - date field: 1702; images/frames: 93; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40312802-38', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_the-inconstant-or-the-_farquhar-george_1702_djvu.txt`


## Cleaned text(s)
- `farquhar_inconstant_1702.clean.txt` - 19,827 words; 94% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Complete.

## OCR quality / notes
Cleaning: IA djvu.txt was normalised (ſ->s), microfilm target frames and junk lines trimmed, page numbers/signatures/running heads dropped, end-of-line hyphenation joined, and a CONSERVATIVE long-s correction applied (words with 'f' that are not in a modern frequency list are replaced by their 's' variant when that variant is common; a short override list covers so/she/sir/see/such/some...). Ambiguous real words (fame/same, fell/sell, fold/sold, found/sound, foul/soul, fit/sit ...) were left unchanged. Statistics of every change are in the `*.cleanstats.json` beside each cleaned file. Expect residual OCR noise; the '% of lines pass a dictionary check' figure above is a rough legibility score (modern-English word list; 18th-c. spellings count against it).
Many later editions on archive.org (1718, 1727, 1728 ...).