st further notes: 'To the Duke's house and there saw _The
German Princess_ acted by the woman herself ... the whole play ...
is very simple, unless, here and there, a witty sprinkle or two.'
This piece was doubtless identical with Porter's tragi-comedy.

p. 329 _four Shillings, or half a Crown._ Four shillings was the
price of admission to the boxes on the first tier of the theatre;
half a crown to the pit. These sums are very frequently alluded to
in prologue and epilogue. Dryden in his second epilogue to _The Duke
of Guise_ (1682), after referring to the brawls and rioting of the
pit, says:--

This makes our boxes full; for men of sense
Pay their four shillings in their own defence.

The epilogue (spoken by Mrs. Bontell) to Corye's _The Generous
Enemies_ (1671), has these lines:--

Though there I see-- Propitious Angels sit
[_points at the Boxes._
Still there's a Nest of Devils in the Pit,
By whom our Plays, like Children, just alive,
Pinch'd by the Fairies, never after thrive:
'Tis but your Half-crown, Sirs: that won't undo.

+Epilogue+

p. 330 _Rotas._ The Rota was a political club founded in 1659 by
James Harrington. It advocated a system of rotation in filling
government offices.

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Errors and Irregularities: The Dutch Lover

resolves to poinard his sister
_spelling unchanged_
Jacobean and Carolan drama
_text unchanged_
but what you do, must be speedily then.
_text reads "speeedily"_
_Car._ Why, _Olinda_, _Dorice_, _Olinda_, where be these mad Girls?
_text unchanged_

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THE ROUNDHEADS; OR,

THE GOOD OLD CAUSE.

[Transcriber's Note:

Entrances and bracketed stage directions were printed in _italics_,
with proper names in roman type. The overall _italic_ markup has been
omitted for readability.]

ARGUMENT.

The historical state of affairs 1659-60 was briefly as follows:-- the
Protectorate of Richard Cromwell expired 22 April, 1659. Hereupon
Fleetwood and some other officers recalled the Long Parliament (Rump),
which was constituted the ruling power of England, a select council of
state having the executive. Lambert, however, with other dissentients
was expelled from Parliament, 12 October, 1659. He and h