he Virtuoso_ (1676). Nokes, who was acting
Sir Credulous, had created Sir Samuel Harty.

p. 71 _The Bell in Friday-street._ The Bell was an inn of note in
Friday Street, Cheapside. cf. _Cal. State Papers_ (1603-10, p. 455):
'Sir Thomas Estcourt ... to Thomas Wilson. Is about to leave London
and proffers his services. If he has occasion to write to him he may
have weekly messengers ... at the Bell, Friday Street.'

+ACT IV: Scene ii+

p. 79 _th' Exercise._ The puritanical term for private worship, cf.
1663 _Flagellum; or, O. Cromwell_ (1672), 21. 'The Family was called
together to prayers; at which Exercise ... they continued long.' cf.
_The Roundheads_ (Vol. I), Act II, i: 'his Prayers; from which
long-winded Exercise I have of late withdrawn my self.'

+ACT IV: Scene iv+

p. 83 _Mirabilis._ Aqua mirabilis, a well-known invigorating cordial,
cf. Dryden's _Marriage a la Mode_ (1672), III, i: 'The country
gentlewoman ... who ... opens her dear bottle of Mirabilis beside, for
a gill glass of it at parting.'

p. 84 _Tranghams._ Nick-nacks, toys, trinkets, cf. Arbuthnot, _History
of John Ball_ (1712-3), Pt. II, c. vi: 'What's the meaning of all
these trangrams and gimcracks?'

+ACT V: Scene i+

p. 92 _to souse._ cf. _Florio_ (ed. 1611): 'to leape or seaze greedily
upon, to souze downe as a hauke.'

p. 93 _this Balatroon._ A rogue. The word is very rare. cf. Cockeram
(1623): '_Ballatron_, a rascally base knave.'

p. 95 _Rotat omne fatum._ This would be an exceptionally rare use of
rotare = rotari, intransitive. But Mrs. Behn, as Dryden tells us in
his preface to the translation of Ovid's _Heroides_ (1680) 'by many
hands', insisted upon the fact that she knew no Latin.

p. 100 _Medicinae Professores._ This is from the _Troisieme Intermede_
of _Le Malade Imaginaire_ which commences:--

Savantissimi doctores,
Medicinae professores,
Qui hic assemblati estis;
Et vos, altri messiores,
Sententiarum facultatis.

p. 101 _Vanderbergen._ A well-known empiric of the day.

p. 102 _Haly the Moore, and Rabbi Isaac._ Ali Bey (Bobrowski),
a Polish scholar, died at Constantinople 1675. He wrote, amongst
other treatises, _De Circumcisione_; _De Aegrotorum Visitatione_.
These were published at Oxford in 1691. Isaac Levita or Jean Isaac
Levi was a celebrated rabbi of the sixteenth century. A professor at
Cologne, he practised medicine and