Volume Iii Part 142 (1/2)

p. 424, l. 3 _Doct. Hold up_. 1724 improperly puts this speech after the stage direction.

p. 424, l. 8 _Harlequin sits still_. 4tos 'He sits still.'

p. 426, ll. 7, 9 _Mistriss_. 1724 'Mrs.'

p. 426, l. 35 _Aside, and Exit_. 'Aside' only in 1724. I have supplied 'and exit.'

p. 427, l. 16 _Scene IV_. I have numbered this scene and supplied the locale 'to Bellemante's Chamber'.

p. 429, l. 6 _Scene V_. I have numbered this scene.

p. 436, l. 14 _The End of the Second Act_. Only in 4tos.

p. 438, l. 22 _Scene II_. I have numbered this scene.

p. 442, l. 5 _prima_. 4tos misprint 'Fema'.

p. 453, l. 1 _Scene III. The Last_. I have numbered this scene. 1724 omits 'The Last.'

p. 454, l. 3 _the Emperor_. 1724 omits 'the'.

p. 456, l. 28 _Sagittary_. 1724 'Sagittar'.

p. 461, l. 32 _Gravely to himself_. Only in 4tos.

p. 462, l. 19 _Pay_. 1724 'Play.'

p. 462, l. 29 _Bank_. 1724 'Rank'.

NOTES: CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY.

THE TOWN FOP.

p. 15 _Mrs. Celinda Dresswell_. Dresswell was obviously the original name of Friendlove, and Mrs. Behn forgot to alter her MS. at this pa.s.sage. The same oversight occurs later in the act when Bellmour says 'I must rely on Dresswell's friends.h.i.+p,' (p. 20).

p. 18 _Gla.s.s Coach_. Coaches with gla.s.ses were a recent invention and very fas.h.i.+onable amongst the courtiers and ladies of the Restoration. De Grammont tells in his _Memoirs_ how he presented a French calash with gla.s.ses to the King, and how, after the Queen and the d.u.c.h.ess of York, had publicly appeared in it, a battle royal took place between Lady Castlemaine and Miss Stewart as to which of the two should first be seen therein on a fine day in Hyde Park. _The Ultimum Vale of John Carleton_ (4to, 1663) says, 'I could wish her coach ... made of the new fas.h.i.+on, with gla.s.s, very stately, ... was come for me.'

p. 20 _Tom Dove_. A well-known bear so named and exhibited at the Bear Garden. Besides this pa.s.sage there are four other allusions to him to be found. Dryden's _Epilogue to the King and Queen_ at the Union of the Two Companies, 1682, has:--

Then for your lacquies ...

They roar so loud, you'd think behind the stairs, Tom Dove, and all the brotherhood of bears.

His prologue to Vanbrugh's alteration of _The Pilgrim_ (1700) begins:--

How wretched is the fate of those who write!

Brought muzzled to the stage, for fear they bite; Where, like Tom Dove, they stand the common foe.