"...I make you, Sir, a sixth Play..." — Bishop Percy says:
This is intended to ridicule the absurd custom of writing plays in several parts, as the Siege of Rhodes, Parts I. and II. Killigrew's Bellamira I. and II. Thomaso I. and II. Cicilia and Clorinda, I. and II &c.; but it is principally levelled at the Conquest of Grenada in 2 Parts; which is properly but one play of ten acts, neither the plot nor the characters being compleat or intelligible in either without the other. (Vgl. Arber, p. 92.)