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HIS Author liv’d in the Time of King Charles the Firt, and writ one Play, called,

The Dumb Knight, a Comedy, 4 to. 1633. Acted by the Children of his Majety’s Revels. Compare this Play with one called, The Queen; or, The Excellency of her Sex: ee alo, The Complaiant Companion, 8 vo. and 12 mo. and Bandello’s Novels, Tom. 1. Nov. 13, &c. Gentleman yet living, who having made it his Buines for ome Years, to educate young Gentlemen, and initiate them in the Learned Tongues, has at length quitted this Ludum Literarium, for a quiet retreat, during his Application to this Buines, he found time to write a Play, called,

The Loving Enemies, a Comedy, 4 to. 1680. Acted at the Duke of York’s Theatre in Doret Garden, and dedicated to the Honourable, Charles Fox, Eq; The Author eems to have imitated the Virtuoo, in this Play. His learned Author was born at a place called, Hatherleigh, a Market Town in Devonhire, ''An. Dom.'' 1604. and in the Time of King James the Firt, paed from Wetminter-School, to Chrit-Church, Oxon, ''An. Dom.'' 1623. in the Condition of a Servitor, where he was encouraged in his Studies by Dr. Duppa, and the next Year choen into the Number of Students on that noble Foundation. He paed his Degrees till he entred into Orders, and Plurality of Two Livings near that Univerity, both in the Gift of the College. After his being made Doctor of Divinity, and turn’d out by the Viitation of the late Government of Oliver Cromwel, he was received into the Family of the Earl of Devon, having lot both his Livings. In the Retauration of the King, he  found