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HIS Author was a Batchelor of Divinity, and Chaplain to King Henry the Eighth. He publihed one Play under the Title of

Acolatus, a Comedy, 4 to. 1540. dedicated to King Henry the Eighth; tranlated from the Latin Play of the ame Name, writ by ''Guil. Fullonius, and printed in Old Englih'' Character. ’Tis the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Scholar of Eaton Schol, who at eventenseventeen [sic], writ a Play, called,

Love in its Extay, a Patoral, 4 to. 1649. but written many Years before ’twas printed. His Author was Mater of Arts in Christ-Church-College, Oxon, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, writ two Plays.

David and Bethhabe, their Love, with the Tragedy of Abalom, 4 to. 1599. This Play, as the Title ays, was divers times play’d on the Stage. Plot from Holy Scripture.

Edward the firt, a Hitory 4 to. 1593. This King was irnamed Long-Shanks, and the Play gives an Account of his return from the Holy Land, with the Life of Kewellin, Rebel in Wales; it also relates the Story of Queen Eleanor’s sinking by Chairing-Cros, and riing again at Queen-Hithe, before called Potters-Hithe. See Grafton, Martin, Hollinghead, Stow, and other Englih Chronicles.

The Tragedy of Alphonus, Emperor of Germany, by mitake, plac’d to him, in ome Catalogues, is not his, but Chapman’s. HE was, if I mitake not, born in Brecknock-hire, in Wales. Contemporary of Cowley, and much praied by him. I mut confes, I cannot but prefer Mrs. Behn infinitely before her; he eems