Gerard Langbaine, The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets… (1698)
“ This Play met with good Success. 'Tis built on a Novel of the same Title, written Originally in French, by a French Lady, and translated into English by Mrs. Behn. Fatal Friendship, a Tragedy, as it is acted at the new Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, 1698. and dedicated to her Royal Highness the Princess of Denmark. I need say nothing of this Play, the Town has prevented my Approbation; and I can only add, that I think it deserv'd the Applause it met with, which every Play that has the Advantage of being Clapt, cannot get from the severer and abler Judges. ”
