p. 320, l. 17 _if you are pleas'd._ 1724 'if your are pleas'd'.

+Act V: Scene ii+

p. 322, l. 1 _Carlo's House._ 4to 1673 'House of Carlo'.

p. 322, l. 5 _Dor. As for._ 4to 1673 misreads 'Dom. As for'.

p. 323, l. 11 _Hau. What a Devil._ 1724 'Hau. What the Devil'.

p. 324, l. 7 _Truth. [Goes out._ 1724 'Exit.'

p. 324, l. 20 _God-ha'-Mercy._ 1724 'God-a-Mercy'.

p. 324, l. 20 _Go in._ 1724 omits.

NOTES: CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY.

+Epistle+

p. 221 _An Epistle to the Reader._ This amusing and witty Epistle
only appears in the 4to, 1673, finding no place in the various
collected editions of Mrs. Behn's plays. The writer of comedy-- 'the
most severe of Johnson's sect'-- with his 'musty rules of Unity'-- at
whom she glances pretty freely is Shadwell, who had obtained great
success with _The Sullen Lovers_ (produced 2 May, 1668; 4to, 1668),
and in spite of some mishaps and opposition, made another hit with
_The Humourists_ (1671; 4to, 1671). An ardent disciple of Ben
Jonson, he had in the two printed prefaces to these plays belauded
his model beyond all other writers, insisting upon the Unities and
the introduction of at least two or three Humours as points
essential to any comedy.

p. 221 _Doctor of Malmsbury._ The famous philosopher, Thomas Hobbes
(1588-1670), who was born at Westport, a suburb of Malmesbury (of
which town his father was vicar).

p. 222 _unjantee._ --'Jantee' obsolete form of 'jaunty': see
_N.E.D._

p. 222 _the mighty Echard._ That facetious divine, John Eachard,
D.D. (1636-97), Master of Catherine Hall, Cambridge. His chief work,
_The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and
Religion enquired into. In a Letter to R. L._ (London, 1670),
published anonymously, is stuffed full with Attic salt and humour.
He has even been censured for a jocosity (at his brethren's expense)
beneath the decorum of the cloth.

p. 224 _English Game which hight long Laurence._ To play at
Laurence = to do just nothing at all; to laze. Laurence is the
personification of idleness. There are many dialect uses of the
name, e.g., N.W. Devon 'Lazy's Laurence', and Cornish 'He's as lazy
as Lawrence', vide Wright, _English Dialect Dictionary._

+Act I: Scene ii+

p. 234 _Women must be watcht as Witches are._ One of the tests to
which beldames suspected of sorcery were put-- a mode particularly
favoured by that arch-sca