_The hour of the Berjere._ L’heure du berger ou l’amant trouve celle qu’il aime favorable à ses voeux. cf. La Fontaine, _Contes. La Coupe Enchantée_. ‘Il y fait bon, l’heure du berger sonne.’ It is a favourite expression of Mrs. Behn. cf. _Sir Patient Fancy_, Act I, i. ‘From Ten to Twelve are the happy hours of the Bergere, those of intire enjoyment.’ Also the charming conclusion of _The Lover’s Watch_:-- Damon, my watch is just and new: And all a Lover ought to do, My Cupid faithfully will show. And ev’ry hour he renders there Except _l’heure du Bergère_. p. 32 _Ay and No Man._ cf. Prologue to _The False Count_ (Vol. III, p. 100): ‘By Yea and Nay’. and note on that passage (p. 480). _False Count_ note: _By Yea and Nay._ ‘Yea and Nay’ was often derisively applied to the Puritans, and hence to their lineal descendants the Whigs, in allusion to the Scriptural injunction, _S. Matthew_ v, 33-7, which they feigned exactly to follow. Timothy Thin-beard, a rascally Puritan, in Heywood’s _If you Know Not Me, You Know Nobody_, Part II (4to, 1606), is continually asseverating ‘By yea and nay’, cf. Fletcher’s _Monsieur Thomas_, Act II, iii, where Thomas says:-- Do not ye see me alter’d? ‘Yea and Nay,’ gentlemen; A much-converted man. * * * * * * * * * Errors and Irregularities: Sir Patient Fancy In the Notes, alternation between .’ and ‘. at paragraph-end is as printed. The abbreviation “cf.” is always lower-case. Editor’s Introduction but yet everything she touched [eveything] Sir Patient Fancy And a Tyrannick Commonwealth prefer [Tryannick] Ton d’ apamibominous prosiphe podas ochus Achilleus [_in standard transliteration:_ Ton d’ apameibomenos prosephê podas ôkus Achilleus _Each element (“Ton ... prosephê” and “podas ôkus Achilleus”) is used several dozen times in the _Iliad_; the complete line occurs at least ten times._] a _Lancashire_ Bag-pipe [_anomalous hyphen in original_] _Wit._ Nor to Chuch? [_spelling unchanged_] & _Reparteeé bien_ [_spelling unchanged_] and d’on on slip shoe: [_text unchanged: compare Note on III.ix_] _Wit._ At Sir _Patient Fancy’s_, my Father-in-law. [? for .] for the use and comfort of Man [. missing] Sir _Pat._ How does my good, my dearest Lady _Fancy_? [_speaker name not italicized_] [Puts Sir _Pat._ back. / [Exit _Wit._ [_bracket before “Exit” added for consistency in e-text_] Enter Lady _Fancy_ and _Wittmore_. [_“and” non-Italic (emphatic)_] _Wit._ Go, haste and ... [Exeunt _Lod._ and Sir _Cred._ [Exeuut] Notes on Text p. 10 _Dramatis Personæ._ ... in the introduction [in the the] p. 13, l. 14 [p. 13 l. 14] p. 98, l. 16 [p. 98, l. 16.] Critical Notes p. 65 _Madame Brenvilliers._ [_body text has “Madam”_]