This author cannot be well acquainted with Mrs. Behn's works, who makes
a comparison between them and the productions of Durfey. There are marks
of a fine understanding in the most unfinished piece of Mrs. Behn, and
the very worst of this lady's compositions are preferable to Durfey's
bell. It is unpleasing to have the merit of any of the Fair Sex
lessened. Mrs. Behn suffered enough at the hands of supercilious prudes,
who had the barbarity to construe her sprightliness into lewdness;
and because she had wit and beauty, she must likewise be charged with
prostitution and irreligion.

Her dramatic works are,

1, 2. The Rover: Or, the banished Cavalier. In two parts, both comedies;
acted at the duke's theatre, and printed in 4to. 1677 and 1681. Those
plays are taken in a great measure from Killegrew's Don Thomaso, or the
wanderer.

3. The Dutch Lover, a Comedy, acted at the Duke's theatre, and printed
in 4to, 1673. The plot of this play is founded upon a Spanish Comedy
entitled, Don Fenise, written by Don Francisco de las Coveras.

4. Abdelazer; or the Moor's Revenge, a Tragedy, acted at the duke's
theatre, and printed in 4to. 1671. It is taken from an old play of
Marlow's, intitled, Lust's Dominion; or the Lascivious Queen, a Tragedy.

5. The Young King; or the Mistake, a Tragi-Comedy, acted at the duke's
theatre, and printed in 4to. in 1683. The design of this play is taken
from the story of Alcamenes and Menalippa, in Calprenede's Cleopatra.

6. The Round-Heads; or the Good Old Cause, a Comedy; acted at the