I owe the present copy of this satire, which has never before been printed, to the kindness of G. Thorn Drury, Esq., K.C., who generously transcribed the lines, thirty-one in number, from a MS. in his possession, which he copied from Haslewood, who writes ‘From an old MS. in my Port Folio’.[7] _The Historical MSS. Commission Third Report_ (1872) _Appendix_ gives amongst the MSS. in the custody of the Bishop of Southwark, _On Mr. Dryden renegate_, by Mrs. Behn, 1 leaf, 33 lines. Fr. Cunningham, the Southwark archivist, whom I take this opportunity of most heartily thanking for the trouble he was put to in the matter, finds that this leaf was one of a number of MSS. restored by Bishop Danell in October, 1875, to the two sources whence they had been borrowed by the Rev. Mark Tierney. These were the Archivium of the late Cardinal Manning, and the Stonyhurst collection. Fr. Cyril Martindale, S.J., informs me that the poem is not to be found at Stonyhurst College. Nor can it be traced at Westminster. The unfortunate conclusion is that it has been irretrievably lost. A couplet would appear to have dropped out in the present copy. [7] In line twenty-four the MS. has ‘constant to worship’, but as Mr. Thorn Drury pertinently points out, ‘content’ is clearly the right word. p. 401 _Valentinian._ For Rochester’s _Valentinian_ see Vol. III, _The Lucky Chance_, Preface (p. 186), and note on that passage (p. 484). This alteration was printed quarto, 1685, with a vigorous defence of Rochester, ‘a Preface concerning the Author and his Writings. _By one of his Friends._’ (i.e. Robert Wolseley, son of Sir Charles Wolseley.) It is curious to note that two publishers divided the risk of publication, and on the title pages of different 4tos we have different names. Mrs. Sarah Cook, who spoke this Prologue the first day, was an actress of no little eminence and beauty. Her origin was humble (her mother is said to have kept a tiny shop), and she early joined the Nursery. In 1677 we find her cast for Gillian, when Leanard’s wholesale plagiarism of Brewer’s _Country Girl_ entitled _Country Innocence; or, The Chambermaid turn’d Quaker_, was produced during Lent by the younger part of the Theatre Royal Company, with help from such experienced performers as Haynes, Lydal, Goodman, Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Knipp. The following year Mrs. Cook acted Flora in _The Rambling Justice_, another Nursery play, also put on in Lent. Langbaine ascribes this comedy to Leanard, and much of it is stolen in his style. Amongst Mrs. Cook’s many rôles after she had joined the King’s Company as a regular actress were:--1681, Livia, in D’Urfey’s _Sir Barnaby Whig_; 1682, Semanthe, in Southerne’s _The Loyal Brother_; The Countess of Rutland in Banks’ _The Unhappy Favourite_. After the Union of the Companies (first performance 16 November, 1682), Mrs. Cook, who had already taken a high place, acted parts of great importance. We find that she spoke the Epilogue