*p1678 01 17 dg Sir Patient Fancy. Edition of 1678: Prologue-Mr Betterton; Sir Patient Fancy-Anthony Leigh; Leander Fancy-Crosby; Wittmore-Betterton; Lodwick Knowell-Smith; Sir Credulous Easy-Nokes; Curry-Richards; Lady Fancy-Mrs Corrar; Lady Knowell-Mrs Gwin [$Quin=]; Lucretia-Mrs Price; Isabella-Mrs Betterton; Maundy-Mrs Gibbs; Epilogue-Mrs Gwin [Quin].*c1678 01 17 dg The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This performance is on the <i>L. C. list</i>, 5@145, p. 120. See also <i>Nicoll, Restoration Drama</i>, p. 349. There is no certainty that this is the first performance, but a licensing date of 28 Jan. 1677@8 and $Mrs Behn='s statement in the Preface that she hurried the play into print suggest a premiere not far from this date. Edition of 1678: To the Reader: I Printed this Play with all the impatient haste one ought to do, who would be vindicated from the most unjust and silly aspersion, Woman could invent to cast on Woman; and which only my being a Woman has procured me, That it was Bawdy, the least and most Excusable fault in the Men Writers, to whose Plays they all crowd, as if they came to no other end then to hear what they condemn in this: but from a Woman it was unnaturall. One song, <i>Sitting by yonder river side</i>, with music by $Thomas? Farmer=, is in <i>Choice Ayres and Songs</i>, The Second Book, 1679.