The devil to pay
Subtitle: or, The wives metamorphos'd. An opera
By: As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants. With the musick prefix'd to each song
Contributors: Mottley, John, 1692-1750, author; Jevon, Thomas, 1652-1688
Publisher: Printed for J. Watts at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields
Published: 1748
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Ballad operas; Librettos; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Wives metamorphos'd; Wives metamorphosed
Notes: One act. Dedication signed by the author, Charles Coffey. John Mottley is said to have collaborated, and Theophilus Cibber to have been responsible for this reduction of the original three acts to one.

Based on Thomas Jevon's "The devil of a wife", 1686.

Rare Book copy: No. 7 in a bound volume of titles.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T31756