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Rh The Dumb Lady; or, The Farrier made Physician, a Comedy, 4to. 1672. Plot and Language from Mollieres le Medicin Malgre luy.

The Old Troop; or, Monsieur Ragou, a Comedy, 4to. 1672.

Sir Hercules Buffoon; or, The Poetical Squire, a Comedy, 4to. 1684. publish'd after his Death.

Plagiary of extraordinary Assurance, that set up with other Mens Writings for the Name of an Author. He published Two Plays under these Titles, (viz.)

The Country Innocence; or, The Chamber-maid turn'd Quaker, a Comedy, 4to. 1677. Taken from a Play, call'd, The Country Girl, by Brewer.

The Rambling Justice; or, The Jealous Husbands, a Comedy, 4to. 1680. Most part from a Play, call'd, More Dissemblers besides Women, a Comedy, 4to. by Middleton.

the Account I can give you of our Author, is, That he was Son of a Minister of the Church of England, had part of his Education at Cambridge, was received with general Applause in most of his Plays. He run Mad, and was some Years in Bethlem, and after he was let out he was never perfectly well; so died in the Street in the Night Time. That he has shewn a Master-piece in Lucius Junius Brutus, which scarce one of his Contemporaries have equal'd, and none excel'd, can never be doubted.

Cæsar Borgia, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. See Guiciardine, lib. 5, 6. Mariana, lib. 27, 28. Sir Paul Ricaut's ''Contin. of Platina, in the Reign of Pope Alexander'' the Sixth.

Constantine the Great, a Tragedy, 4to. 1684. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majesty's Servants. Plot from Eusebius de vitâ Constantini, Zonarus, Eutropius, Baronius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Beard's Theatre of God's Judgments.

Gloriana, the Court of Augustus Cæsar, a Tragedy, 4to. 1676. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majesties Servants, and dedicated to the Dutchess of Portsmouth. See the Stories of Cæsario, Marcellus, and Julia, in Cleopatra, Part 1. Book 3. Part 5. Book. 3, &c.

Lucius, Junius Brutus, Father of his Country, a Tragedy, 4to. 1681. Acted at the Duke's Theatre, and dedicated to the Right Honourable, the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex. See the Story of Junius Brutus in Clelia, a Romance, Par. 2. Book. 1. and Part 3. Book 1. And