*p1690 09 00 dl Sir Anthony Love; or, The Rambling Lady. Edition of 1691: Sir Anthony Love-Mrs Mountford; Valentine-Mountford; Ilford-Williams; Sir Gentle Golding-Bowen; An Abbe-Antho. Leigh; Count Canaile-Hodgson; Count Verole-Sandford; Palmer-Powel Jr; Waitwell-Bright; Traffique-Kirkham; Cortaut-Mich. Lee; Servant to Sir Gentle-Cibber; Servant to Ilford-Tho. Kent; Floriante-Mrs Butler; Charlote-Mrs Bracegirdle; Volante-Mrs Knight; Prologue-Mrs Bracegirdle; Epilogue-Mrs Butler.*c1690 09 00 dl The <i>United Company</i>. The date of the first performance is not known, and the play is one of a large group commonly assigned to September-December 1690. As the Prologue implies an autumn production, it has been placed at late September, although the premiere may have been October. It was advertised in the <i>London Gazette</i>, 18-22 Dec. 1690, and entered in the <i>Term Catalogues</i>, Feb. 1690@1. The music was composed by $Henry Purcell=. See <i>Purcell, Works</i>, <i>Purcell Society</i>, XXI (Dramatic Music, III, 1917), xii-xiv. Dedication: So visibly promoting my Interest on those days chiefly (the Third and the Sixth) when I had the tenderest relation to the welfare of my Play [i.e. $Southerne= had two benefits]. $Langbaine= (<i>English Dramatick Poets</i>, 1691, Appendix): This Play was acted with extraordinary Applause, the Part of <i>Sir Anthony Love</i>r being most Masterly play'd by $Mr Montfort=: and certainly, who ever reads it, will find it fraught with true Wit and Humour. <i>Gentleman's Journal</i>, January 1691@2: [<i>The Wives' Excuse</i>, newly performed] was written by Mr Southern, who made that call'd Sir Anthony Love, which you and all the Town have lik'd so well.