After seeing the play for the third time, Pepys writes, "It is impossible to have Florimel’s part, which is the most comical that ever was made for woman, ever done better than it is by Nelly." Killigrew must have agreed with Pepys's opinion. Once Nell left the acting profession, it would be at least ten years before his company revived "The Maiden Queen" and even the less favoured "The Indian Emperour" because "the management evidently felt that it would be useless to present these plays without her."