[7] There was at least one avid reader of The Female Wits. The Reverend Arthur Bedford of Bristol, one of Collier's followers who spent his entire career attacking the theatres, mentions it forty times in The Evil and Danger of Stage-Plays (1706). He used it as an example in all the categories of wickedness that Collier had set up in A Short View of the Prophaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, the original attack in 1698.
[8] "Why dost thou fly me, pretty Maid," from The Single Songs, with the Dialogue, Sung in ... Brutus of Alba. Composed by Daniel Purcell (London, 1696). Henry E. Huntington Library Devonshire Plays, vol. 8 (131929-35).
[9] "By Moonlight on the Green," Henry E. Huntington Library Collection of Broadsides, vol. 5 (Huth 81013).
[10] Tobyas Thomas has been thought to be a pen-name for Tom Brown, but there is no reason to question that he was one of Haynes' fellow-actors who never rose higher than secondary roles. He played a part in The Female Wits.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The text of this edition of The Female Wits is reproduced from a copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.