*p1697 05 08 dl A Plot and no Plot. Edition of 1697: Prologue-Joe Hains; Bull Sr-Dogget; Bull Jr-Cibber; Belvil-Harland; Baldernoe-Penkethman; Rumour-Hains; Macfleet-Lee; A very young Beau-Miss Allison; Sylvia-Mrs Rogers; Frowzy-Bullock; Friskit-Mrs Kent; Epilogue-Miss Allison who acted the Beau.*c1697 05 08 dl <i>Rich's Company</i>. $Lady Morley= attended this performance. $Hotson=, <i>Commonwealth and Restoration Stage</i>, p. 377: Lady Morley and one in the Box at <i>Plott and noe Plott</i> 8s. [There is no certainty that this performance is the premiere; since the play was advertised in the <i>Post Man</i>, 25-27 May 1697, the first performance may have been late April or very early May.] Preface, Edition of 1697: As for the Spectators, tho, by reason of the advanc'd Season, and the extremity of the heat, which when the Play was first acted was intolerable, we have not had such numerous assemblies as might have been expected in Winter; yet as long as I have known the Play-house I never saw the Company there in better humour. <i>A Comparison Between the Two Stages</i> (1702), pp. 18-19: <i>Ramble</i>: Oh, that's $Dennis='s; and a very regular Farce, tho' he calls it a Comedy. <i>Sullen</i>: I think it did pretty well; 'tis laboriously Writ, as everything of his is: There's an Air of Formality in the Play agreeable to the slovenly Air in his Behaviour.