*p1673 07 03 dg The Empress of Morocco. Edition of 1673: The first Prologue at Court-Lady Elizabeth Howard; The second Prologue at Court-Lady Elizabeth Howard; Prologue at the Play House-; Muly Labas-Harris; Muly Hamet-Smith; Grimalhaz-Batterton; Hametalhaz-Medbourne; Abdelcador-Crosby; Laula-Mrs Batterton; Mariamne-Mrs Mary Lee; Morena-Mrs Johnson; Epilogue-.*c1673 07 03 dg The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This performance is on the <i>L. C. list</i>, 5@141, p. 216. See also <i>Nicoll, Restoration Drama</i>, p. 348. There is considerable uncertainty as to when the first performance occurred, but it appears to have been acted first <i>at court</i>. See $Boswell=, <i>Restoration Court Stage</i>, pp. 131-34. The first Prologue, written by $Lord Mulgrove=, and the second, written by $Lord Rochester=, are in <i>A Collection of Poems Written upon several Occasions by several Persons</i> (1673). $Roger North=: And now we turne to the Publik theatres. It had bin strange if they had not observed this promiscuous tendency to musick, and not have taken it into their scenes and profited by it. The first proffer of theirs, as I take it, was in a play of the thick-sculd-poetaster $Elkanah Settle=, called <i>The Empress of Morocco</i>; which had a sort of masque poem of <i>Orfeus and Euridice</i>, set by $Mr M. Lock=, but scandalously performed. It begins <i>The Groans of Ghosts</i>, &c. and may be had in print (<i>Roger North on Music</i>, ed. $John Wilson= [<i>London</i>, 1959], p. 306).