*p1678 02 00 dl Mithridates, King of Pontus. Edition of 1678: Prologue-; Mithridates-Mohun; Ziphares-Hart; Pharnaces-Goodman; Archelaus-Griffin; Pelopidas-Wintershul; Andravar-Powell; Aquilius-Clark; Another Roman Officer-Wiltshire; Monima-Mrs Corbett; Semandra-Mrs Boutel; Epilogue by $Mr Dryden=-.*c1678 02 00 dl The <i>King's Company</i>. The date of the premiere is not known, but a licensing date of 28 March 1678 suggests a first performance not later than February 1678. One song, <i>One night while all the village slept</i>, with music by $Louis Grabu= and words by $Sir Car Scroop=, is in <i>Choice Ayres and Songs</i>, The Third Book, 1681. $Downes= (<i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, p. 17): $Major Mohun=...[in] <i>Mithridates</i>, &c. An Eminent Poet seeing him Act this last, vented suddenly this Saying: Oh Mohun, Mohun! Thou little Man of Mettle, if I should write a 100 Plays, I'd Write a Part for thy Mouth; in short, in all his Parts, he was most Accurate and Correct. [Downes, p. 12, gives an identical cast except for omissions.] $Princess Anne= apparently played <i>Ziphares</i>r and $Frances Apsley= played <i>Semandra</i>r in a production of this drama, probably at <i>St James's Palace</i> or at $Sir Allen Apsley='s house in <i>St James's Square</i>, between January 1677@8 and August 1679. See $Benjamin Bathurst=, <i>Letters of Two Queens</i> (<i>London</i>, 1924), p. 61.