With reference to _The King of Bantam_ we have in the 1698 collected edition of the Novels the following ’_Advertisement to the _Reader_._ The Stile of the Court of the King of _Bantam_, being so very different from Mrs. _Behn’s_ usual way of Writing, it may perhaps call its being genuine in Question; to obviate which Objection, I must inform the Reader, that it was a Trial of Skill upon a Wager, to shew that she was able to write in the Style of the Celebrated _Scarron_, in Imitation of whom ’tis writ, tho’ the Story be true. I need not say any thing of the other Two, they evidently confessing their admirable Author.’ 43. Swift, although he amply fulfilled Dryden’s famous prophecy, ‘Cousin Swift, you will never be a Pindaric poet’, was doubtless thinking of these Pindarics when in _The Battle of the Books_ he wrote: ‘Then _Pindar_ slew ——, and ——, and _Oldham_, and ——, and _Afra_ the _Amazon_ light of foot.’ 44. First published in _The Gentleman’s Magazine_, May, 1836. 45. Christopher Monck, second Duke of Albermarle, was appointed Governor-General of Jamaica, 26 November, 1687. He died there early in the following autumn. 46. ’_Sappho_ famous for her Gout and Guilt,’ writes Gould in _The Poetess, a Satyr_. 47. Now published for the first time by the courtesy of G. Thorn Drury, Esq., K.C., who generously obliged me with a transcript of the original. 48. In the original edition of _The Fair Jilt_ (1688), we have advertised: ‘There is now in the Press, _Oroonoko; or, The History of the Royal Slave_. Written by Madam _Behn_.’ 49. In the second edition (1688), of this _Congratulatory Poem_ to Queen Mary of Modena we have the following advertisement:—’On Wednesday next will be Published the most Ingenious and long Expected History of _Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave_. By Mrs. _Behn_.’ 50. The title page has 1689, but it was possibly published late in 1688. 51. Traditionally said to be John Hoyle. 52. Sam Briscoe, the publisher, in his Dedicatory Epistle to _Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry, etc._ (2 vols., 1718), says: ‘Had the rough Days of K. _Charles_ II _newly recover’d from the Confusion of a Civil War_, or the tempestuous Time of _James_ the Second, had the same _Sence of Wit_ as our _Gentlemen_ now appear to have, the first Impressions of _Milton’s Paradise Lost_ had never been sold for _Waste Paper_; the Inimitable _Hudibras_ had never suffered the Miseries of a Neglected Cavalier; _Tom Brown_ the merriest and most diverting’st man, had never expir’d so neglected; Mr. _Dryden_’s Religion would never have lost him his _Pension_; or Mrs. _Behn_ ever had but _two Lines_ upon her _Grave-stone_.’ 53. ‘She was a most beautiful woman, and a more excellent poet’. Col. Colepeper. _Adversaria_, Vol. ii (Harleian MSS.)