Produced by Louise Hope, Wendy Bertsch and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [This e-text comes in three forms: Unicode (UTF-8), Latin-1 and ASCII-7. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --If “œ” displays as a single character, and apostrophes and quotation marks are “curly” or angled, you have the UTF-8 version (best). If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding”. If that doesn’t work, proceed to: --In the Latin-1 version, “œ” is two letters, but French words like “rôle” and “mêre” have accents and “æ” is a single letter. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight (“typewriter” form). Again, if you see any garbage in this paragraph and can’t get it to display properly, use: --The ASCII-7 or rock-bottom version. All necessary text will still be there; it just won’t be as pretty. Note that in the Introduction to “Agnes de Castro”, the name “Constança” has a cedilla and “Peñafiel” has a tilde. In the printed book, all notes were grouped at the end of the volume. For this e-text, they have been placed after their respective stories. The _Epistle Dedicatory_ to _Oroonoko_ was printed as an Appendix. In keeping with the editor’s intention (see second paragraph of Note), it has been placed immediately before the novel. Where appropriate, cross-references from other volumes of the Complete Works are quoted after the Notes. The “N.E.D.” (New English Dictionary) is now known as the OED. Typographic note: In the printed book, all references to plays give the Act in lower-case Roman numerals and the Scene in small capital Roman numerals; the two look identical except for the dots over the i’s. For this plain-text version, the conventional “IV, iv” sequence was used instead. Italic passages used Roman type for emphasis; this is shown as +Name+.] THE WORKS of APHRA BEHN Edited by MONTAGUE SUMMERS VOL. V The Black Lady -- The King of Bantam The Unfortunate Happy Lady -- The Fair Jilt Oroonoko -- Agnes de Castro The History of the Nun -- The Nun The Lucky Mistake -- The Unfortunate Bride The Dumb Virgin -- The Wandering Beauty The Unhappy Mistake [Illustration: (Publisher’s Device)] LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN STRATFORD-ON-AVON: A. H. BULLEN MCMXV CONTENTS. [See Transcriber’s Note at beginning of text for handling of Notes and Appendix.] Page