54. This piece finds a place in the unauthorised edition of Prior’s Poems, 1707, a volume the poet himself repudiated. In the Cambridge edition of Prior’s _Works_ (1905-7), reason is given, however, to show that the lines are certainly Prior’s, and that he withdrew this and other satires (says Curll, the bookseller), owing to ‘his great Modesty’. The Horatian tag (Epistles i, xiv, 19) is of course ‘O Imitatores servum pecus’. 55. In his _Preface Concerning Ovid’s Epistles_ affixed to the translation of the _Heroides_ (_Ovid’s Epistles_), ‘by Several Hands’ (1680), Dryden writes: ‘The Reader will here find most of the Translations, with some little Latitude or variation from the Author’s Sence: That of _Oenone_ to _Paris_, is in Mr. Cowley’s way of Imitation only. I was desir’d to say that the Author who is of the _Fair Sex_, understood not _Latine_. But if she does not, I am afraid she has given us occasion to be asham’d who do.’ 56. ‘Old Mr. John Bowman, the player, told me that Mrs. Behn was the First Person he ever knew or heard of who made the Liquor call’d Milk Punch.’—Oldys; MS. note in Langbaine. In a tattered MS. recipe book, the compilation of a good housewife named Mary Rockett, and dated 1711, the following directions are given how to brew this tipple. ‘To make Milk Punch. Infuse the rinds of 8 Lemons in a Gallon of Brandy 48 hours then add 5 Quarts of Water and 2 pounds of Loaf Sugar then Squize the Juices of all the Lemons to these Ingredients add 2 Quarts of new milk Scald hot stirring the whole till it crudles grate in 2 Nutmegs let the whole infuse 1 Hour then refine through a flannel Bag.’ 57. ‘She always Writ with the greatest ease in the world, and that in the midst of Company, and Discourse of other matters. I saw her my self write _Oroonoko_, and keep her own in Discoursing with several then present in the Room.’—Gildon: _An Account of the Life of the Incomparable Mrs. Behn_, prefixed to _The Younger Brother_ (4to 1696). Southerne says, with reference to _Oroonoko_, ‘That she always told his Story, more feelingly than she writ it.’ 58. It is ushered in by one ‘G. J. her friend’. This was almost certainly George Jenkins. 59. _The School for Greybeards_, produced at Drury Lane, 25 November, 1786. It owes much of its business to _The Lucky Chance_. See the Theatrical History of that comedy (Vol. iii, p. 180). Miss Farren acted Donna Seraphina, second wife of Don Alexis, one of the Greybeards. She also spoke the epilogue. 427 Explanation of “Notes” In the printed book, all Notes were grouped at the end of the volume in two sections: “Notes on the Plays” and “Notes: Critical and Explanatory”. Passages cited were identified only by page and line number. For this e-text, the Notes have been placed after their respective plays, retaining the division between textual notes (generally short, one or two lines) and critical notes (often several paragraphs). The original page numbers are shown in brackets [ ].