*p1682 03 00 dg Vertue Betray'd; or, Anna Bullen. Edition of 1682: Prologue- Spoken to <i>Anna Bullen</i>r by a Person of Quality; King Harry-Smith; Cardinal-Gillow; Northumberland-Wiltshire; Piercy-Betterton; Rochford-Jos. Williams; Anna Bullen-Mrs Barry; Lady Diana Talbot-Mrs Petty; Epilogue-.*c1682 03 00 dg The <i>Duke's Company</i>. The date of the first performance is uncertain, but the fact that $Luttrell= dated his separately printed copies of the Prologue and Epilogue 5 April 1682 (<i>Huntington Library</i>) sets a probability that the play first appeared within a week to ten days preceding that date. The <i>Prologue</i> and <i>Epilogue</i>, separately printed, have been reprinted in $Wiley=, <i>Rare Prologues and Epilogues</i>, pp. 89-91. <i>A Prologue Intended for Vertue Bertray'd</i>, by $Thomas Shadwell=, is reprinted in <i>Welbeck Niscellany 3, A Collection of Poems by Several Hands</i>, ed. $Francis Needham=, 1934. Some details in it suggest the "Dead Time" preceding <i>Easter</i>, when the $Court= was gone, the <i>Russian ambassador</i> departed, the <i>Moroccan Ambassador</i> shortly to go. The Russian ambassador left on 15 Feb. 1681@2 OS (see <i>Evelyn, Diary</i>), and the Prologue refers to the execution of $Colonel Vratz= and his accomplices on 10 March 1681@2 (Evelyn, Diary).