p. 192 _spoken ... at his Royal Highness’ second exile_. This note fixes the date of the play as being between the latter end of March, 1679, and August of the same year. It was probably produced in April. The Duke of York sailed for Antwerp on 4 March, 1679. From Antwerp he went to the Hague and thence to Brussels. In August he was summoned home as Charles was attacked by a severe fit of ague. He returned to Brussels to escort the Duchess back, and on 27 October left for Scotland. THE CITY HEIRESS. p. 199 _Henry, Earl of Arundel_. Henry Howard, 1655-1701, son of Henry, sixth Duke of Norfolk, succeeded his father 10 January, 1684. From 1678 to 1684 he was styled Earl of Arundel, although summoned to Parliament on 27 January, 1679 as Lord Mowbray. p. 200 _Then let the strucken Deer. Hamlet_, Act iii, ii. p. 201 _to roar_. To be tipsily boisterous, deoauchcd and wantonly destructive. The word is common. p. 201 _to glout_. To stare at; to make eyes at. Not here to frown or scowl, the usual meaning, and the sole explanation given by the _N.E.D_. For ‘glout’ in this sense cf. Orrery’s _Guzman_ (1679) iv, ‘Guzman glouts at her, sighs, and folds his arms.’ p. 201 _Convenient_. ‘Blowing, Natural, Convenient, Tackle. Several names for a Mistress or rather a Whore.’--’An Explanation of the Cant’ prefixed to Shadwell’s _The Squire of Alsatia_ (4to, 1688). The word occurs more than once in the course of the play. cf. Act iv, where we have ‘_Enter_ Margaret _and Mrs_. Hackum _with a Cawdle_. _Belf. Sen_. Oh my dear _Blowing!_ my _Convenient!_ my _Tackle!_’ p. 201 _In Reverend Shape_. The allusion throughout this prologue is to Titus Oates. After his abominable perjuries this wretch was lodged at Whitehall, assigned £1200 a year and a special posse of officers and attendants. p. 201 _The Oaths_ ... cf. Dryden’s description of Oates as Corah. _Absalom and Achitophel_, Part I--especially-- Who ever asked the witnesses’ high race Whose oath with martyrdom did Stephen grace? p. 202 _Pug_. A quasi-proper name for a fox. cf. R.S. Surtees’ _Ask Mamma_ (1857-8), xv. ‘Pug ... turns tail and is very soon in the rear of the hounds.’ p. 202 _silken Doctor_. Oates pretended to have taken the degree of D.D. at the University of Salamanca. The spirit caught him up! the Lord knows where, And gave him his Rabbinical degree Unknown to foreign university.--_Absalom and Achitopbel_, i. Silken of course alludes to his black silk Doctor’s gown.