1724 '_sits_'.

p. 203, l. 5 _others._ 1724 'other'.

p. 203, l. 12 _O'._ 4to 1671 'A'.'

p. 204, l. 20 _their._ 4to 1671 '_the_'.

p. 206, l. 33 _Visors._ 1724 '_Vizards_'.

p. 207, l. 5 _Braves._ 1724 'Bravoes'.

p. 209, l. 19 _'Twas a Temptation._ 1724 quite erroneously gives this
speech to Cloris.

p. 212, l. 13 _Clo. speaks aside to Guil._ 1724 'Aside to Guil.'

p. 212, l. 24 _Curtain Falls._ Only in 4to 1671.

+Epilogue+

p. 213, l. 5 _E'en humble._ 4to 1671 omits 'E'en'.

p. 213, l. 22 _Leadies._ 1724 'Ladies'.

NOTES: CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY.

+Prologue+

p. 121 _Great Johnson's way._ cf. what Mrs. Behn says in her 'Epistle
to the Reader' prefacing _The Dutch Lover_ (Vol. I, p. 224), of the
Jonsonian enthusiast: 'a man the most severe of Johnson's Sect.'

p. 121 _Nokes and Angel._ The two celebrated low comedians. Angel
died in the spring of 1673. He was a great farceur, but gagged
unmercifully, to the no small annoyance of the poets.

p. 121 _Cataline._ Jonson's tragedy was revived with great splendour
at the King's House, Friday, 18 December, 1668, and remained a stock
play until the retirement of Hart (who excelled in Catiline) at the
Union in 1682. Michael Mohun was famous in Cethegus, and Mrs. Corey
in Sempronia. Pepys found the play itself rather dull as a whole
'though most fine in clothes, and a fine Scene of the Senate, and of
a fight, as ever I saw in my life.' A year before its actual
production his crony, Harry Harris, a member of the rival theatre
had 'talked of _Catiline_ which is to be suddenly acted at the King's
House; and there all agree that it cannot be well done at that house,
there not being good actors enough; and Burt acts Cicero, which they
all conclude he will not be able to do well. The King gives them L500
for robes, there being, as they say, to be sixteen scarlet robes.'
(11 December, 1667.) In the first quarto (1672), of Buckingham's _The
Rehearsal_, Bayes refers to _Catiline_ saying that his design in a
certain scene is '_Roman_ cloaths, guilded Truncheons, forc'd
conceipt, smooth Verse, and a Rant.' The words 'Roman cloaths' are
omitted in all subsequent editions.

p. 121 _the Comick Hat._ In 1670 there was produced at the Theatre
Royal, Dryden's _The Conquest of Granada_, Part I. The witty prologue
was 'spoken by Mrs. Ellen Gwyn' (who acted Almahide) 'in a
Broad-Brimm'd Hat, and