p. 177 _The Lucky Chance_. On the title of the 4to 1687, we have ‘This
may be Printed, _April 23_, 1686. _R.P_.’
p. 183, l. 1 _To The Right Honourable_. This Dedication and the Preface
(p. 185) are only found in the 4to 1687. p. 190 _Dramatis Personae_.
have added to the list ‘_Gingle_, a Music Master; A Post-man; _Susan_,
Servant to Sir _Feeble; Phillis, Leticia’s_ Woman.’
p. 191, l. 20 _Enter Mr. Gingle_. I have inserted Gingle’s name. All
previous editions read ‘Enter several with Musick.’
p. 194, l. 5 _Dudgeon_. 4to 1687 ‘Dugion’.
p. 199, l. 13 _I have had ... Guyneys_. These words have by a curiously
gross error been dropped out in all editions save the 4to 1687.
p. 202, l. 30 _all but for_. 1724 omits ‘but’.
p. 203, l. 10 _so, I’ll go_. 1724 ‘so, and I’ll go’.
p. 203, l. 27 _Then then_. All previous editions read ‘Then thou’ which
makes no sense. The emendation, if not what Mrs. Behn wrote, is at least
grammatical.
p. 204, l. 34 _this St. Martin’s Trumpery_. 1724 ‘these’.
p. 205, l. 4 _my Girl_. 1724 omits ‘my’.
p. 206, l. 28 _of the World_. 1724 ‘of the whole World’.
p. 207, l. 30 _beholding_. 1724 ‘beholden’.
p. 207, l. 36 _Aside_. 1724 omits.
p. 209, l. 2 _look, look how_. 1724 ‘look, how’.
p. 209, l. 12 _Exeunt_. I have supplied this, which does not occur in
previous editions. 4to 1687 has ‘The End of the First Act.’ 1724
gives nothing.
p. 210, l. 3 _Livings_. 1724 ‘Living’.
p. 216, l. 13 _Enter Bellmour_. I have placed this entrance here as by
his first speech Bellmour obviously overhears Leticia’s words, ‘Blest be
this kind Retreat’. 1724 places the entrance after ‘Sighs and Tears.’
4to 1687 gives it in a bracket by Leticia’s three lines.
p. 218, l. 9 _Let. But how_. I have arranged these lines metrically. 4to
1687 and 1724 print as prose.
p. 221, l. 1 _Seraglio_. 4to 1687 ‘Seraglia’.
p. 222, l. 31 _Quonundrum_. 4to 1687 ‘Qunnumdrum’.
p. 224, l. 17 _Exit_. I have supplied this. 1724 gives no direction. 4to
1687 has ‘The End of the Second Act.’
p. 225, ll. 13, 25 _Aside_. Not in 4to 1687.
p. 226, l. 8 _swooned_. 4to 1687 ‘swoonded’.
p. 227, l. 9 _Aside_. Not in 4to 1687.
p. 227, l. 29 _Scene II_. I have numbered this scene.
p. 227, l. 29 _in an undressing_. 1724 omits ‘in an’.
p. 228, l. 7 _Aside_. Omitted in 4to 1687.
p. 228, l. 21 _Within_. I have supplied this stage direction here and in
Bellmour’s following speech.
p. 229, l. 2 _to him_. Not in 1724.
p. 229, l. 4 _before to morrow_. 1724 reads ‘before we go to him
to-morrow.’
p. 229, l. 27 _his Safety_. 1724 omits ‘his’.
p. 231, l. 3 _I’m sorry_. I have arranged this metrically. Former
editions as prose.
p. 23l, l. 16 _Woman_. 4to 1687 ‘Women’. But Pert is alone.
p. 231, l. 22 _Want_. 1724 misprints ‘Wont’.
p. 234, l. 4 _Exit_. I have supplied this stage direction.
p. 234, l. 5 _Scene V_. I have numbered this scene.
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