p. 178 _The Disappointment_. This poem, which was extremely popular, was sent by Mrs. Behn to John Hoyle, her friend, with a letter in which she anxiously urges him to give the lie to various scandals of a grave nature that were current concerning his private life. The letter and the poem are both to be found in the various editions of _Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry, &c._ This poem was also printed in _Poems on Several Occasions by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of R---- Antwerpen._ [London.] 1680(?) And in _Poems on Several Occasion by the R. H. the E. of R._ London. (1712). Under the title _The Insensible_ it is to be found in the following editions of Rochester, 1718; 1731; 1739 (in which year there were two several and slightly divergent editions); 1752; 1800 (?); and in a selected reprint _circa_ 1884. In these editions which contain _The Insensible_, _The Disappointment_ is the title given to a different poem seemingly based on Ovid, _Amorum_, iii, vii. The whole subject has frequently been treated by poets and amorists of all time. Also cf. _supra_ note on a _Juniper-Tree_. Mr. G. Thorn Drury has drawn my attention to the fact that the original of Mrs. Behn’s _The Disappointment_, entitled _Sur une Impuissance_ is to be found in _Recueil de Diverses Poesies Choisies Non encore Imprimées_. A Amsterdam, 1661. A full translation of the French verses (Mrs. Behn’s is only of part), appears in _Wit and Drollery_ (1682), under the title _The Lost Opportunity recovered_. This poem is not given in _Wit and Drollery_ (1661). p. 182 _Sir R. O._ Either Sir Rowland Okeover, of Okeover, Staffs., knighted by the King, May (April?), 1665; or Sir Richard Osbaldeston of Hunmanby, York, knighted 12 August, 1681. p. 183 _The Dream_. This song appears in _The Muses Mercury_, May, 1707, as _Cupid in Chains_. For variants see Textual Notes, p. 183. p. 185 _A Letter to a Brother_. There is nothing to indicate to whom these satirical lines are addressed. [Ravenscroft?] For ‘Sweating-Tub’ cf. the Epilogue to _The Lucky Chance_: ‘Tubs must cure your pain’ (Vol. III, p. 279), and note on that passage (p. 492). p. 185 _Pusillage_. cf. _The Feign’d Curtezans_, i, ii: ‘Thou shalt part with thy Pusilage’ (Vol. II, p. 320), and note on that passage, (p. 440).