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104 Dido, Queen of Carthage, a Tragedy, 4 to. This was not wholly writ by him, for Marlow did omewhat ait therein. The Story from Virgil’s Æneids, lib. 1, & 4.

Summers Lat Will and Tetament, a Comedy, 4 to. This Author has writ divers other mall Pieces, both in Vere and Proe; but not that Play of See me, and ee me not, as alledged by Mr. Philips and Wintanley. Young Gentleman, that at ixteen undertook to tranlate the Oedipus of Seneca, and liv’d in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Oedipus, a Tragedy, 4 to. printed 1581. but was Englihed by him about twenty Years before, and is dedicated to Dr. Wotton, then one of the Queen’s Majety’s Privy Council. Fellow of King’s-College, Cambridge, in King Charles the Firt’s Time, and writ a Play, entituled,

The Poor Scholar, a Comedy, 4 to. 1662. written divers Years before printed, but I do not find it was ever acted, tho’ recommended by ome Copies of Veres by three other Poets of that Time. R. Langbain has always, a good Word for Quality, he can ee no Blemih in that Peron that has a Title, tho’ he be o harp ighted in all thoe of a lower Station; and he is o tranported on this worthy Nobleman, that he baulks the Curioity of his Reader, for ome Account of his Life, to vent a clumey Flattery. He was of the Illutrious and Ancient Family of Cavendih, a zealous Follower of the Royal Caue, and with it exil’d; during his Aboad at Antwerp, he writ a Book of Horemanhip. He was an Encourager of Poetry, and a Poet himelf. You may find his Life at large, written by his Dutches. We have four Comedies of his in Print; as

The Country Captain, a Comedy, 8 vo. 1649. It was acted at the Black-Fryars, by his Majety’s Servants, with good Applaue; and uually bound up with another of his, called, The Variety.

The Humorous Lovers, a Comedy, 4 to. 1677. Acted by his Royal Highnes the Duke of York’s Servants, with great Applaue. The