For who would let a useful Member want. Things being brought to this distressed Estate, ’Twere fit you took the matter in Debate. There was a time, when Loyally by you, True Wit and Sense received Allegiance due, Our King of Poets had his Tribute pay’d, His Peers secured beneath his Laurel’s shade. What Crimes have they committed, they must be Driven to the last and worst Extremity? Oh, let it not be said of English Men, Who have to Wit so just and noble been, They should their Loyal Principles recant, And let the glorious Monarch of it want. _430_ Notes on the Text. Rover II. Dramatis Personæ p. 117 I have added to the Dramatis Personæ ‘Rag, boy to Willmore’, and ‘Porter at the English Ambassador’s’. Act I: Scene i p. 118, l. 2 _Scene I._ I have added the locale ‘A Street’. p. 118, l. 4 _Campain._ 4to 1681 ‘campania’. p. 120, l. 17 _but cold._ 1724 ‘and cold’. p. 120, l. 28 _embracing._ 1724 omits. p. 120, l. 32 _Philies._ 4to 1681 ‘Philoes’. p. 122, l. 30 _Brussels._ 4to 1681 ‘Bruxels’. p. 123, l. 21 _But that._ 1724 prints these two lines as prose. p. 124, l. 3 _Marcy._ 1724 ‘Mercy’. p. 126, l. 16 _get ’em ready._ 1724 ‘get it ready’. 431 p. 128, l. 33 _pickl’d Pilchard._ 1724. ‘pickle Pilchard’. p. 128, l. 34 _like a Christmas Sweet-heart._ 4to 1681 ‘boto Christmas Sweet-heart’. p. 129, l. 26 _have I._ 1724 ‘I have’. Act I: Scene ia p. 131, l. 36 _hot Shot_, 1724 omits ‘hot’. p. 134, l. 9 _to receive._ 1724, wrongly, ‘to deceive’. Act II: Scene i p. 135, l. 9 _Scene I._ I have added the locale ‘The Street’. p. 142, l. 5 _Harlequin, Scaramouche._ I have added these two names to the stage direction. Harlequin is obviously present from the business. Scaramouche is given in Dramatis Personæ, 4to 1681 and 1724, but in neither is any entry or exit marked throughout the play. In Killigrew, whom Mrs. Behn is here following very closely, Scaramouche is the quack’s servant and appears in this scene. Accordingly I have marked him an entrance. p. 142, l. 13 _Maremaids._ 1724 ‘Mairmaids’. p. 142, l. 26 _an a Man._ 4to 1681 ‘and a Man’. p. 142, l. 28 _and falls._ 4to 1681 ‘who falls’. p. 145, l. 30 _on the Mountebank’s Stage._ 4to 1681 ‘on the stage of the Mountebank’. p. 146, l. 1 _This is flat Conjuration._ 4to 1681 ‘This flat Conjuration’. p. 146, l. 7 _what’s here._ 4to 1681 ‘what here’. p. 148, l. 11 _Ex. Feth. and Blunt._ 4to 1681 and 1724 ‘[Ex.’ Act II: Scene ii p. 148, l. 12 _Scene II. Changes._ 4to 1681 and 1724 ‘Scene changes’. p. 148, ll. 21, 27, 33 [_bis._ 1724 omits. p. 150, l. 2 _my Cousin Endymion._ 1724 ‘Endymion’s’. p. 150, l. 16 _Sommes._ 4to 1681 and 1724 ‘somme’. p. 152, l. 5 _Snush._ 1724 ‘snuff’. Act III: Scene i p. 154, l. 25 _Gargantua._ 4to 1681 ‘Garigantua’, and omits ‘of’. p. 155, l. 5 _and Harlequin attending._ Harlequin’s entrance is not marked in 4to 1681 or in 1724, but it is necessary here as he is addressed by the Dwarf. p. 156, l. 22 _Hu, how scornful._ 1724 omits ‘Hu’.