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Rh ON of Mr. Powell, an ancient Player, lately dead; he is more eminent for playing than writing, tho’ there are ome Plays under his Name; as,

Alphono King of Naples, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1691. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeties Servants, and dedicated to her Grace the Dutches of Ormond. The Prologue is written by ''Jo. Haynes, and Epilogue by Mr. Durfey''.

Brutus of Alba; or, Augutus’s Triumph, a new Opera, acted at the Theatre in Doret Garden, by his Majety’s Servants, 1690, 4 to. and dedicated by ''Sam. Bricoe, Bookeller to George PowelPowell [sic], and John Verbruggen''. This Play has not o much as the whole Title new, for Brutus of Alba is a Play of Mr. Tate’s, and all the Deign taken out of everal old Plays.

The treacherous Brother, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1690. acted by their Majeties Servants, at the Theatre Royal, and dedicated to the Patentees and Sharers of their Majeties Theatre. Plot from The Wall-Flower, a Romance, fol. writ by Dr. Baily, formerly Preident of St. John’s, Oxon.

A very good Wife, a Comedy, 4 to. 1695. acted by their Majeties Servants, at the Theatre Royal; and dedicated to the honoured Alexander Popham, Eq; The Prologue is writ by Mr. Congreve. This Play is taken whole Pages together out of Brome. Know no more of this Author, than that he has writ one Play, called,

Cambyes, King of Peria, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. a very ancient Play with an odd, long Title, which runs thus, (viz.) A lamentable Tragedy, mixt full of pleaant Mirth; containing the Life of Cambyes, King of Peria, from the beginning of his Kingdom unto his Death; his one good Deed of Execution, after the many Wicked Deeds, and Tyrannous Murders committed by and through him: and last of all, his ''odious Death, by God’s Jutice appointed. Done in uch Order as followeth''. London, Printed by John Alde. It is writ in old fahion’d Metre, and has no Date, Plot from Herodotus and Jutin. Edmund