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100 a Maque, is little more than Speeches poke, as now in these Days, to the Lord Mayors, in Pageants, &c.

Women, beware Women, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1657. See Hippolito and Iabella, a Romance, 8 vo. This is uually bound with two others of his before-mentioned, 8 vo.

The World tos’d at Tennis, a Maque, 4 to. 1620. aid to be divers times acted to the Contentment of many Noble and Worthy Spectators, by the Prince’s Servants. The Dedication is to the truly Noble, Charles, then Lord Howard, Baron of Effingham; and to his Vertuous and Worthy Wife, the Right Honourable, Mary, then Lady Effingham, the Eldet Daughter of Sir William Cockain, Knight, then Lord Mayor of London, &c.

Your Five Gallants, a Comedy, 4 to. Acted at the Black-Fryars. A Play printed without any Date, and in all probability, the firt he ever writ. N Author of that Excellence of Genius and Learning, that none of any Age or Nation, I think, has excel’d him: during the Civil Wars, and after the Death of King Charles the Firt, he was advanced to coniderable Pots in the Government, as Under Secretary of State, &c. and he was a trenuous Defender of the Power and Liberty of the People, upon which that Government immediately tood. His Controvery with Salmatius was very famous all over Europe, and his Victory cot his Adverary his Life, tho’ he himelf lot his Eyes. I have been told, that after the Retauration of King Charles the Second, he taught School at, or near, Greenwich. The Time or Place of his Birth, Education, or Death, I am ignorant of. He writ two Dramatick Pieces, viz.

Samon Agonites, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1680. Mr. Dryden Sen. has, in his Aureng-zebe, borrowed ome Thoughts from this Poem, which is founded on Scripture. Conult the Thirteenth Chapter of Judges, &c. alo Tornier, Salian, and ''Joeph. Antiq.'' lib. 5.

A Maque presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634. Printed 4 to. 1687. It was publihed by Mr. Laws, who compos’d the Muick, dedicating it to the Right Honourable, John, Lord Vicount Brackley, Son and Heir Apparent to John, Earl of Bridgewater, Vicount Brackley, Lord Preident of Wales, and one of his Majety’s most Honourable Privy Council; before whom it was preented. He writ beides, divers Pieces in Poetry and Hitory, as Paradie Lot, 8 vo. and Fol. with Sculptures; Paradie Regain’d, 8 vo. ''Hit. of Britain, 4 to. Pro populo Anglicano defenio, 12 mo. The Doctrine and Dicipline of Divorce, 4 to. &c.'' Walter