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Rh The Heir, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1633. Acted by the Company of Revels. This was accounted an ingenious and modet Play, and much commended by Mr. Thomas Carew, who has a Copy of Veres to that purpoe, printed with the Play.

The Old Couple, a Comedy, 4 to. 1651. This Play has been formerly in repute, and the chief Deign of it eems to be against Coveteounes.

Two of the above Plays, (viz.) Agrippina and Antigone, are uually bound together in a mall Volume, 12 mo. This Author has publih’d a Tranlation of Lucan’s Pharalia, 8 vo. 1635. and Virgil’s Georgicks, with Annotations, 1622. alo a Hitory of the late Civil Wars in England, which he calls, A Breviary. E liv’d in the Time of King James and King Charles the Firt, was of Chrit-Church-College, Oxon, and writ one Play, which was publih’d after his Death. The Title of his Play is,

The Combat of Love and Friendship, a Comedy, formerly preented by the Gentlemen of Chrit-Church in Oxon, 4 to. printed at London, 1654. N Actor in the Duke’s Company, being a Papit and committed to Newgate about the Popih Plot, where he died; but ome Years before he publihed one Play, called,

Tartuffe; or, the French Puritan, a Comedy, 4 to. 1670. Acted at the Theatre Royal; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Henry, Lord Howard, of Norfolk. Tranlated from the French of Molliere. His Scribler liv’d ince the Retauration, and accounted the dullet and mot impotent of Dramatick Poets in his Time, he publih’d Two Plays:

Love and War, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1658. and dedicated to the truly Noble, Judicious Gentleman, and his mot eteemed Brother, Mr. ''Geo. Meriton''. I do not find this Play was ever acted, or deerved acting. The