ird Earl, his father.

The Dedication only occurs in the first edition of _Oronooko_ (1688),
of which I can trace but one copy. This is in the library of Mr. F. F.
Norcross of Chicago, whose brother-in-law, Mr. Harold B. Wrenn, most
kindly transcribed and transmitted to me the Epistle Dedicatory. It,
unfortunately, arrived too late for insertion at p. 129.

p. 130 _I gave 'em to the King's Theatre._ Sir Robert Howard and
Dryden's heroic tragedy, _The Indian Queen_, was produced at the Theatre
Royal in mid-January, 1663. It is a good play, but the extraordinary
success it attained was in no small measure due to the excellence and
magnificence of the scenic effects and mounting. 27 January, Pepys
noticed that the streets adjacent to the theatre were 'full of coaches
at the new play _The Indian Queen_, which for show, they say, exceeds
_Henry VIII_.' On 1 February he himself found it 'indeed a most pleasant
show'. The grandeur of the _mise en scene_ became long proverbial in
theatrical history. Zempoalla, the Indian Queen, a fine role, was
superbly acted by Mrs. Marshall, the leading tragedienne of the day. The
feathered ornaments which Mrs. Behn mentions must have formed a quaint
but doubtless striking addition to the actress's pseudo-classic attire.
Bernbaum pictures 'Nell Gwynn[5] in the true costume of a Carib belle',
a quite unfair deduction from Mrs. Behn's words.

p. 168 _Osenbrigs._ More usually 'osnaburg', so named from Osnabrueck in
North Germany, a kind of coarse linen made in this town. Narborough's
Journal, 1669 (_An Account of Several Late Voyages_, 1694), speaks of
'Cloth, Osenbrigs, Tobacco'. cf. _Pennsylvania Col. Records_ (1732):
'That to each there be given a couple of Shirts, a Jackett, two pairs of
trowsers of Oznabrigs.'

p. 174 _as soon as the Governour arrived_. The Governor was Francis
Willoughby, fifth Baron Willoughby of Parham (1613?-1666). He had
arrived at Barbadoes, 29 April, 1650, and was received as Governor 7
May, which same day he caused Charles II to be proclaimed. An ardent
royalist, he was dispossessed by an Act of Parliament, 4 March, 1652,
and summoned back to England. At the Restoration he was reinstated, and
arrived the second time with full powers in Barbadoes, 10 August, 1663.
About the end of July, 1666, he was lost at sea on board the good ship
_Hope_.

p. 177 _my Father . . . never arriv'd to possess the Honour design'd
him._ Bernbaum, following the mistaken statement tha