*p1689 12 04 dl Don Sebastian. Edition of 1690: Prologue [Sent to the Author By an Unknown Hand-Mrs Mountfort [Dressed like an Officer; Prologue-a Woman; Don Sebastian-Williams; Muley Moluch-Kynaston; Dorax-Betterton; Benducar-Sandford; Mufti-Underhill; Muley Zeydan-Powell Jr; Don Antonio-Betterton [an error; corrected in 1692 edition to $Mountfort=]; Don Alvarez-Bowman; Mustapha-Leigh; Almeyda-Mrs Barry; Morayma-Mrs Montfort; Johayma-Mrs Leigh; Epilogue-Antonio, Morayma.*c1689 12 04 dl The <i>United Company</i>. This performance is on the <i>L. C. list</i>, 5@149, p. 368: $The Queene= a Box, and a Box for the Maids Honor at <i>Don Sebastian King of Portugal</i>. See also <i>Nicoll, Restoration Drama</i>, p. 352. There is no certainly that this is the first performance. The play was entered in the <i>Stationers' Register</i>, 15 Dec. 1689. See also $Charles E. Ward=, <i>The Life of John Dryden</i> (<i>Chapel Hill, N. C.</i>, 1961), pp. 242-46. Preface, Edition of 1690: I am...to acknowledge, with all manner of gratitude, their civility; who were pleas'd to endure it with so much patience....Above twelve hundred lines have been cut off from this tragedy since it was first deliver'd to the actors. They were indeed so judiciously lopt by $Mr Betterton=, to whose care and excellent action I am equall y oblig'd, that the connexion of the story was not lost. Does a cryptic remark by $Huygens=, 3 Dec. 1689 OS, refer to this play: Dat dat geklap met de handen in comedie, onlanxgebeurt, als er gesproken wierd van een Coning, die wederom quam in sign rijck, van seer quade consequentie was. Dat voorseker de Con. too mercifull was, en dat er mosten exempelen gestatueert werden (<i>Journal van Constantijn Huygens</i>, <i>Dutch Historical Society Transactions</i>, New Series, XXIII [<i>Utrecht</i>, 18-212).