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Rh eems to be a very cold Writer, while you may find in Aphra both Fire and Eaines, which Mrs. Philips wanted. She dy’d of the Small Pox, June, 22. 1664. Aged 31.

Horace, a Tragedy, Fol. 1678. Tranlated from the French of Corneille. This Authres leaving the Play unfinih’d at her Death, Sir John Denham compleated it, by adding the fifth Act; after which, it was acted at Court by Perons of Quality. Plot from Livy, lib. 1. c. 2. L. Florus, &c.

Pompey, a Tragedy, fol. 1678. acted at the Duke’s Theatre, with great Applaue. There was uually at the End acted a Farce of Sir William Davenant’s, which you may find in his Play-Houe to be Lett. The Earl of Orrery, and Countes of Cork, were the Chief Intruments of bringing this Play in Englih, to light. Tranlated alo from Corneille, and Plot from Lucan’s Pharalia. His is a Lady yet living, and in this Poetick Age, when all Sexes and Degrees venture on the Sock or Buskins, he has boldly given us an Eay of her Talent in both, and not without Succes, tho’ with little Profit to her elf.

Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperor of the Turks, a Tragedy, acted at the Theatre Royal, 1696. 4 to. and dedicated to Richard Minchal, of Burton, Eq; This Play, if it want the Harmony of Numbers, and the Sublimity of Expreion, has yet a Quality, that at leat ballances that Defect, I mean the Paions; for the Ditres of Morena never fail’d to bring Tears into the Eyes of the Audience; which few Plays, if any ince Otway’s, have done; and yet, which is the true End of Tragedy. She informs us, that by mitake it was called Ibrahim the Thirteenth, when it hould have been called, Ibrahim the Twelfth, the Story you may find in Sir Paul Ricaut’s Continuation of the Turkih Hitory.

The Innocent Mitres, a Comedy, acted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, by his Majety’s Servants, 1697. 4 to. The Prologue and Epilogue writ by Mr. Motteux. This is a diverting Play, and met with good Succes, tho’ acted in the hot Seaon of the Year, our Poetres has endeavoured to imitate the Eaines and Way of the Author of Vertue in Danger, and The Provok’d Wife. She has borrowed ome Incidents from other Plays; as Mrs. Beauclair’s carrying of Mrs. Flywife from Sir Francis Wildlove, from the Vertuous Wife doing the ame to her Husband’s Mitres. Then the Scene in the Park betwixt Sir Francis and her in her Mask, is a kind of Copy in young Bellair, and Harriots in Sir Fopling. Mis Peggy seems a Copy of Mis Hoyden, as Chattal is of everal of the parts written of late for Mr. Dogget. But notwithtanding thee Imitations,