to Dryden and Lee’s _The Duke of Guise_ (December, 1682), and in 1683 she appears as Spaconia in a notable revival of _A King and No King_. The same year she possibly acted the Countess in Ravenscroft’s _Dame Dobson_. In 1684 she played Serena in Lee’s _Constantine the Great_; Erminia in Southerne’s _The Disappointment_; Portia, in a revival of _Julius Cæsar_; 1685, Aminta in D’Urfey’s _The Commonwealth of Women_; Edith, in a revival of _Rollo, Duke of Normandy_; 1686, Lady Lovemore in Jevon’s farce, _A Devil of A Wife_; Donna Elvira in D’Urfey’s _The Banditti_; 1687, Letitia in Mrs. Behn’s _The Lucky Chance_; Quisara in Tate’s poor alteration of _The Island Princess_; Elaria, in Mrs. Behn’s farcical _The Emperor of the Moon_. Genest who records this as her last rôle says that she quitted the stage at this time. It has been stated that she died in the winter of 1687. At any rate her name no longer appears, and her place was amply filled by the advent of Mrs. Bracegirdle. Mrs. Cook was celebrated for speaking saucy and political epilogues, e.g. that to _The Duke of Guise_, and, again, Dryden’s brilliant epilogue to _Constantine the Great_. A MS. (Harleian) _Satire on the Players_ (c. 1682-3) coarsely vilipends her thus:-- Impudent _Sarah_ thinks she’s praised by all, Mistaken Drab, back to thy Mother’s stall, And let true Savin whom thou hast proved so well; } ‘Tis a rare thing that belly will not swell, } Though swived and swived and as debauched as hell. } On the Second Day of _Valentinian_ a second prologue was spoken by Mrs. Cook. They are clever verses, and with regard to the critics who gird at Rochester, some ‘for his want of Wit’, and others because ‘he too obscenely writ’, it is said:-- Like _Falstaffe_ let ‘em conquer Heroes dead, And praise _Greek_ Poets they cou’d never read. The third ‘Prologue intended for _Valentinian_, to be spoken by _Mrs. Barrey_’ contains the famous lines with reference to the dead author:-- Some Beauties here I see-- Though now demure, have felt his pow’rful Charms, And languish’d in the circle of his Arms. p. 402 _Jenny._ A well-known orange wench to whom there are allusions in the satires of the day. ‘Jenny’ is sometimes also a generic name for a mask.