*p1695 12 00 lif The Lover's Luck. Edition of 1696: Prologue-Mr Hodgson; Sir Nichol^as^Purflew-Bright; Alderman Whim-Underhil; Bellair-Betterton; Breviat-Freeman; Goosandelo-Bowman; Eager-Bowen; Sapless-Dogget; Jacona-Mrs Ayloff; Mrs Purflew-Mrs Bracegirdle; Mrs Plyant-Mrs Bowman; Vesuvia-Mrs Lee; Sprightly-Mrs Lawson; Landlady-Mrs Perin.*c1695 12 00 lif <i>Betterton's Company</i>. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the <i>London Gazette</i>, No. 3151, 20-23 Jan. 1695@6, and entered in the <i>Term Catalogues</i>, February 1695@6, suggests that it was probably acted not later than December 1695. According to the Edition of 1696, the music was set by $John Eccles=: <i>Come, Thyrsis, come</i> was sung by $Reading= and $Mrs Hodgson=; the other songs in the edition lack the names of the singers. In addition, <i>Rich mines of hot love are rooted here</i>, sung by $Bowman=, was in <i>Deliciae Musicae</i>, The First Book of the Second Volume, 1696; and <i>Let us revel and roar</i>, set by $John Eccles= and sung by $Curco= and $Reading=, was published in <i>Thesaurus Musicus</i>, The Fifth Book, 1696. $Downes=, <i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, p. 44: <i>Lovers Luck</i>, a Comedy, Wrote by $Captain Dilks=, which fill'd the House 6 Days together, and above 50# the 8th, the Day it was left off. <i>A Comparison Between the Two Stages</i> (1702), p. 20, lists it among the plays under the heading: Damn'd.