ts.]

p. 117. _Lucia... Mrs. Norris._ In the quarto the name of this
actress is spelled Norice. Even if the two characters Lucia and
Petronella Elenora were not so entirely different, one being a girl,
the second a withered crone, it is obvious that as both appear on
the stage at one and the same time Mrs. Norris could not have
doubled these roles. The name Mrs. Norice, however, which is cast
for Lucia is undoubtedly a misprint for Mrs. Price. This lady may
possibly have been the daughter of Joseph Price, an 'Inimitable
sprightly Actor', who was dead in 1673. We find Mrs. Price cast for
various roles of no great consequence, similar to Lucia in this
play. She sustained Camilla in Otway's _Friendship in Fashion_
(1678), Violante in Leanerd's _The Counterfeits_ (1679), Sylvia in
_The Soldier's Fortune_ (1683), Hippolita in D'Urfey's _A
Commonwealth of Women_ (1685), and many more, all of which belong to
the 'second walking-lady'.

Mrs. Norris, who acted Petronella Elenora, was a far more important
figure in the theatre. One of those useful and, indeed,
indispensable performers, who, without ever attaining any prominent
position, contribute more essentially than is often realized to the
success of a play, she became well known for her capital
personations of old women and dowagers. Wife of the actor Norris,
she had been one of the earliest members of Davenant's company, and
her son, known as Jubilee Dicky from his superlative performance in
Farquhar's _The Constant Couple_ (1699), was a leading comedian in
the reigns of Anne and the first George. Amongst Mrs. Norris' many
roles such parts as Lady Dupe, the old lady in Dryden's _Sir Martin
Mar-All_ (1667), Goody Rash in Crowne's _The Country Wit_ (1675),
Nuarcha, an amorous old maid, in Maidwell's _The Loving Enemies_
(1680), Mother Dunwell, the bawd in Betterton's _The Revenge; or,
A Match in Newgate_ (1680), all sufficiently typify her special
line, within whose limits she won considerable applause.

+Act I: Scene i+

p. 120 _Crab-Wine._ An inferior tipple brewed from sour apples.

p. 122 _Tantalus better than ever Ovid described him._

Quaerit aquas in aquis, et poma fugacia captat
Tantalus: hoc illi garrula lingua dedit.
_Amorum_, ii, 11, 43-4.

Tibi, Tantale, nullae
Deprenduntur aquae; quaeque imminet effugit arbos.
_Met_, iv, 457-8.

p. 126 _I