*p1692 04 00 dl Cleomenes, the Spartan Heroe. Edition of 1692: Prologue-Mr Mountfort; Cleomenes-Betterton; Cleonidas-Lee; Ptolomy-Alexander [$Verbruggen=]; Sosybius-Sandford; Cleanthes-Mountford; Pantheus-Kynaston; Coenus-Hudson; Cratisiclea-Mrs Betterton; Cleora-Mrs Bracegirdle; Cassandra-Mrs Barry; Epilogue-Mrs Bracegirdle.*c1692 04 00 dl The <i>United Company</i>. The date of the first performance is not certain, but it lies between Saturday 9 and Saturday 16 April. $Luttrell=, <i>A Brief Relation</i> (II, 413) stated on 9 April that $the Queen= had prohibited its being acted; on 16 April (II, 422) he reports that it has been acted. $Luttrell=, <i>A Brief Relation</i>, II, 422, 16 April: $Mr Dryden= s play has been acted with applause, the reflecting passages upon this government being left out. The <i>Gentleman's Journal</i>, May 1692 (licensed 14 May): I told you in my last, that none could then tell when Mr Dryden's <i>Cleomenes</i> would appear; since that time, the Innocence and Merit of the Play have rais'd it several eminent Advocates, who have prevailed to have it Acted, and you need not doubt but it has been with great applause. Preface, Edition of 1692: $Mrs Barry=, always Excellent, has, in this tragedy, excell'd Herself, and gain'd a Reputation beyond any Woman whom I have ever seen on the Theatre. [See also <i>Cibber, Apology</i>, I, 160, for a discussion of $Mrs Barry= in <i>Cleomenes</i>.] A song, <i>No, no, poor suffering heart no change endeavour</i>, the music by $Henry Purcell=, is in <i>Comes Amoris</i>, The Fourth Book, 1693, and also, with the notice that it was sung by $Mrs Butler=, in <i>Joyful Cuckoldom</i>, ca. 1695. See also <i>Purcell's Works</i>, <i>Purcell Society</i>, XVI (1906), xviii-xix; <i>Epistolary Essay to Mr Dryden upon his Cleomenes</i>, in <i>Gentleman's Journal</i>, May 1692, pp. 17-21. When the play was revived at <i>Drury Lane</i>, 8 Aug. 1721, the bill bore the heading: Not Acted these Twenty-Five Years.