The earl’s mother was aunt to Mrs. Wharton’s father, Sir Henry Lee. Rochester died 26 July, 1680. On p. 242 of _The Temple of Death_, a miscellany (1695), may be read Mrs. Wharton’s ‘To Mrs. A. Behn, on what she Writ of the Earl of Rochester’. Various other of her poems have appeared in similar collections. p. 173 _The Return_. The first two stanzas of this poem appear in _The Muses Mercury_, August, 1707, as ‘To _J. Hoyle_, Esq.’ p. 175 _my Lady Morland_. Mrs. Behn is here complimenting her friend Carola, daughter of Sir Roger Harsnett, Knight, and second wife of Sir Samuel Morland, whom she married in Westminster Abbey, 26 October, 1670. Lady Morland died 10 October, 1674, aged twenty-two. For an account of the Queen’s visit to Tunbridge Wells (’.he place of all Europe the most rural and simple, and yet, at the same time, the most entertaining and agreeable’., see Grammont’s _Memoirs_. Rochester has a famous satire, _Tunbridge Wells_. Burr’s _History of Tunbridge Wells_ will be found to give a very full account of that fashionable watering-place. p. 177 _Song to Ceres_. _The Wavering Nymph; or, Mad Amyntas_ was the name given to a Restoration revival of Randolph’s beautiful and truly poetic _Amyntas or The Impossible Dowry_. The title of the editio princeps runs thus: _Amyntas or The Impossible Dowry. A Pastoral Acted before the King and Queen at Whitehall. Written by Thomas Randolph_. _Pastorem, Tityre, pingues_ _Pascat oportet oves, diductum dicere Carmen._ _Oxford, Printed by Leonard Lichfield for Francis Bordman_, 1638. In the pastoral, Ceres, by an obscure oracle, has announced the dowry to be given to Urania, the daughter of her priest. Amyntas, conceiving it impossible to bestow this required dowry, has lost his wits. The wavering nymph is Laurinda. Eventually the divine riddle is happily solved. There is no record of the revival for which Mrs. Behn wrote these two songs, but the play was undoubtedly put on at the Duke’s house. It was probably acted in 1682-3, when a large number of the older plays were staged, especially such as gave scope for scenic effects and the introduction of musical interludes. In the spring of 1703, _Amyntas_, reduced to three acts as _The Fickle Shepherdess_, was produced at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Mrs. Bracegirdle acted Amyntas, and Mrs. Barry, Clorinda (Laurinda).