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94 Sophonisba, her Tragedy; or, The Wonder of Women, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1633. Plot from Sir Walter Raliegh, Polibius, Appian, Livy’s Hit. &c.

What you will, a Comedy, 8 vo. 1633. Copied from Plautus Amphitrio. Mr. Phillips and Mr. Wintanly have made him Author of another Play, called, the Faithful Shepherd, but his Name not being thereto, nor he ever owning it, I conclude, with Mr. Langbain, that ’tis none of his. His Poet was Mater of Arts in King James the Firt’s Time, and writ one Play call’d,

Muleaes, the Turk; a Tragedy, 4 to. 1610. Acted by the Children of his Majety’s Revels. This Author, in his Title Page, calls it, A Worthy Tragedy, and had a great Conceit of its meeting with Succes, adding in the Front, this Sentence of Horace,
 * Sume Superbiam quæitam meritis.

Poet who was born at Salisbury in the Reign of Charles the Firt, his Father liv’d and dy’d in the Service of the then Earl of Montgomery, and ent his Son, our Poet, to St. Alban-Hall, in Oxon, where he remain’d a Student for three or four Years. He was intimate with Rowley, Middleton, Field, Decker, and even Fletcher. He left this World in March, 1669. and on the eventeenth Day of that Month, was buried in St. Mary Overies-Church in Southwark, in the Grave where Mr. Fletcher had been before buried. In Sir Aton Cockain’s Epigrams you may find an Epitaph on him, Book 1. Ep. 100. He writ fourteen Plays intire, and joined with Middleton and Rowley in ome others; of which in their Order:

The Bahful Lover, a Comedy, 8 vo. 1655. Acted at the private Houe in Black-Fryars, by his Majety’s Servants, with good Applaue.

The Bondman, a Comedy, 4 to. 1638. Acted at the Cock-Pit in Drury-Lane, by the mot excellent Princes, the Lady Elizabeth, her Servants: Dedicated to the Right Honourable, Philip, Earl of Montgomery. The reducing the Slaves by the Sight of the Whips, is taken from the Story of the Scythian Slaves.

The City Madam, a Comedy, 4 to. 1659. Acted at the Private Houe in Black-fryars, with great Applaue, and Dedicated to the truly