*p1700 02 00 lif Measure for Measure; or, Beauty the Best Advocate. Edition of 1700: Prologue by $Mr Oldmixon=-Mr Betterton; Epilogue-; Shakespear's Ghost-Mr Verbruggen; Duke of Savoy-Arnold; Angelo-Betterton; Escalus-Berry; Claudio-Verbrugen; Lucio-Baile; Balthazar-Pack; Provost-Freeman; Isabella-Mrs Bracegirdle; Julietta-Mrs Bowman; Mariana-Mrs Prince.*c1700 02 00 lif <i>Betterton's Company</i>. The date of the first production is not known, but the Prologue refers to "this Winter," suggesting a date before March 1700. A song, <i>Ah Belinda I am pressed</i>, in this play, appeared in <i>Orpheus Britannica</i>, 1698, the music by $Henry Purcell=, who had died some years before its appearance in this collection. <i>A Comparison Between the Two Stages</i> (1702), pp. 26-27, referring to the rivalry between <i>lif</i> and <i>dl</i> in reviving $Shakespeare= and $Jonson=: The Battel continued a long time doubtful, and Victory hovering over both Camps, $Batterton= Sollicts for some Auxiliaries from the same Author, and then he flanks his Enemy with <i>Measure for Measure</i>.