e Dutch. Snik:
Dutch = a sharp weapon. Dryden in his _Parallel betwixt Painting and
Poetry_ (4to, June, 1695) speaks of 'the brutal sport of
snick-or-sne'. Mrs. Behn has happily put several characteristically
Dutch phrases in Haunce's mouth.

p. 278 _Pharamond._ A heroic romance in twelve volumes, the seven
first of which are by the celebrated la Calprenede, the remainder
being the work of Pierre de Vaumoriere. It was translated into
English by J. Phillips (London, 1677, folio). Lee has taken the
story of Varanes in his tragedy, _Theodosius_ (1680), from this
romance.

+Act IV: Scene i+

p. 289 _Bethlehem-Gaber._ Bethlen-Gabor (Gabriel Bethlen),
1580-1629, was a Hungarian noble who embraced the Protestant
religion, and in 1613, with the help of an Ottoman army, succeeded
in establishing himself as King of Transylvania. His reign, although
one long period of warfare and truces, proved a most flourishing
epoch for his country. Himself a musician and a man of letters,
he was constant in his patronage of art and scholars, cf. Abraham
Holland's _Continued Inquisition of Paper Persecutors_ (1626):--

But to behold the walls
Butter'd with weekly Newes composed in Pauls
By some decaied Captaine, or those Rooks
Whose hungry brains compile prodigious books
Of Bethlem Gabor's preparations and
How terms betwixt him and th' Emperor stand.

p. 291 _a Hoy._ A small vessel like a sloop, peculiarly Dutch.
Pepys, 16 June, 1661, speaks of hiring 'a Margate hoy'.

+Act V: Scene ii+

p. 323 _a Lapland Witch._ cf. _Paradise Lost_, Book II, l. 666:--

To dance
With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
Eclipses at their charms.

+Act V: Scene iia+

p. 329 _the German Princess._ Mary Morders, alias Stedman, alias
Kentish Moll, a notorious imposter of the day, who pretended to be a
Princess from Germany. She had been transported to Jamaica in 1671,
but returning too soon and stealing a piece of plate, was hanged at
Tyburn, 22 January, 1673. Her adventures formed the plot of a play
by Tom Porter, _A Witty Combat; or, The Female Victor_ (4to, 1663).
Kirkman's _Counterfeit Lady Unveiled_ (8vo, 1673), contains very
ample details of her career. Pepys went to visit her 'at the
Gatehouse at Westminster', 29 May, 1663. In talk he was 'high in the
defence of her wit and spirit' (7 June, 1663). 15 April, 1664, the
diari