*p1693 02 00 dl The Maid's Last Prayer; or, Any rather than Fail. Edition of 1693: Prologue-Mrs Barry; Granger-Powell; Gayman-Boman; Garnish-Alexander [$Verbruggen=]; Lord Malepert-Doggett; Sir Ruff Rancounter-Bright; Sir Symphony-Bowen; Capt. Drydrubb-Underhill; Jano-Betty Allinson; Lady Malepert-Mrs Barry; Lady Trickitt-Mrs Bracegirdle; Lady Susan Malepert-Mrs Montford; Maria-Mrs Rogers; Wishwell-Mrs Betterton; Siam-Mrs Leigh; Florence-Mrs Kent; Judy-Mrs Rachel Lee; Christian-Perin; Footman, Porter-Pinkyman.*c1693 02 00 dl The <i>United Company</i>. The date of the first performance is not known, but it had been acted by the time the January 1692@3 issue of the <i>Gentleman's Journal</i> appeared in March (on page 1 of that issue, the editor states that We are now in March): $Mr Southerne='s New Comedy, call'd, <i>The Maid's last Prayer, or Any rather than fail</i>, was acted the 3d time this evening, and is to be acted again to morrow. It discovers much knowledge of the Town in its Author; and its Wit and purity of Diction are particularly commended (p. 28). The first song in the play, <i>Tho you make no return to my passion</i>, composed by $Henry Purcell=, was sung, according to the printed play, by $Mrs Hodgson=; by $Mrs Dyer=, according to <i>Thesaurus Musicus</i>, First Book, 1693. The second song, composed by $Samuel? Akeroyd=, was sung by $Mrs Ayliff= (Thesaurus Musicus, The First Book, 1693). Another song, <i>No, no, no, no, resistance is but vain</i>, written by $Anthony Henley=, composed by Henry Purcell, and sung by $Mrs Ayliff= and $Mrs Hodgson=, Act IV, is in <i>Purcell's Works</i>, <i>Purcell Society</i>, XX (1916), xiv-xv. A song, <i>Tell me no more I am deceiv'd</i>, written by $William Congreve=, set by Henry Purcell, and sung by Mrs Ayliff, is in <i>Works</i>, XX (1916), xv-xvi. According to the <i>London Gazette</i>, No. 2852, 9-13 March 1692@3, the play was published "this day" (13 March 1692@3).