ve coals. Beverley, _Virginia_, III, xii (1705), thus explains
it: 'Broyling ... at some distance above the live coals [the Indians]
& we from them call Barbecuing.' cf. Pope, _Imitations of Horace_,
Sat. ii, 25, 26:--

_Oldfield_ with more than Harpy throat endued
Cries, 'Send me, Gods, a whole hog barbecued!'

+ACT III: Scene i+

p. 264 _De-Wit._ 'To De-Wit' = to lynch. The word often occurs; it is
derived from the deaths of John and Cornelius De Wit, opponents of
William III (when stadt-holder). They were murdered by a mob in 1672.
cf. 'to godfrey' = to strangle, from the alleged murder of Sir Edmond
Bury Godfrey[1] in 1678. Crowne, _Sir Courtly Nice_ (1685), II, ii,
has: 'Don't throttle me, don't _Godfrey_ me.' The _N.E.D._ fails to
include 'to godfrey'.

[Footnote 1: It is now pretty certainly established that this
melancholist committed suicide.]

p. 265 _Dalton's Country-Justice._ A well-known work by the celebrated
lawyer Michael Dalton (1554-1620). It was long held in great repute
and regarded as supremely authoritative. On a page of advertisements
(Some Books printed this Year 1677. For _John Amery_, at the
_Peacock_, against St. _Dunstan's Church_ in _Fleet-street_) in the
_Rover I_ (4to 1677), occurs '_The Country Justice_, Containing the
practice of the Justices of the Peace, in and out of their Sessions,
with an Abridgment of all Statutes relating thereunto to this present
Year 1677. By _Michael Dalton_ Esq; _Fol._ price bound 12s.' cf. _The
Plain Dealer_ (4to 1676), III, i:

_Widow Blackacre._ Let's see Dalton, Hughs, Shepherd, Wingate.
_Bookseller's Boy._ We have no law books.

p. 266 _a Cagg._ Now corrupted to 'Keg', a small cask. cf. _Cotgrave_
(1611), 'Encacquer' to put in to a little barrell or cag. _N.E.D._
quotes this present passage.

+ACT IV: Scene i+

p. 279 _Agah Yerkin._ The various dictionaries and vocabularies of
the Indian languages I have had resource to give none of these words.
There is, however, so great a confusion of Indian jargons and dialects
that they cannot be pronounced fictitious. Yet Mrs. Behn would hardly,
even if she had learned the language, have retained any exact
knowledge of such barbaric tongues, and one may almost certainly say
that these cries and incantations are her own composition. Amongst
other authorities I have consulted _The Voyage of Robert Dudley ...
to the West