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Rh King Edgar and Alfreda, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1677. Plot from Englih Chronicles; ee alo The Annals of Love, 8 vo.

The London Cuckolds, a Comedy, 4 to. 1683. acted at the Duke’s Theatre. Plot part from Scarron’s Novels, 8 vo. Nov. 1. (viz.) The FruitleSS 3 Precaution. Part from Les-Contes Du-Sieur D’ouville, 8 vo. part 2. pag. 121. And part from Boccace’s Novels, Day 7. Nov. 6, 7.

Scaramouch a Philoopher, Harloquin a School-Booy, Bravo a Merchant and Magician; a Comedy after the Italian Manner, 4 to. 1677. acted at the Theatre Royal. Part of this Play taken from Molliere’s Le Bourgeois Gentlehomme; and part from Le Marriage Force, 8 vo.

The Wrangling Lovers; or, The Inviible Mistres, a Comedy, 4 to. 1677. acted at the Duke’s Theatre. Compare this with a Play called, Les Engagements du Hazard, by Corneille; and a Romance, called, Deceptio Vius; or, Seeing and Believing are two Things, 8 vo.

The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, by Shakepear, was about the time of the Popih Plot, revived and altered by this our Author; who, in his Epitle, denies it to be Shakepear’s, and then boats of his own Labour and Pains therein, by making great Alterations and Additions, and that he had not only refined the Language, but made many Scenes entirely new. Rincipal Graver of the Mint to both the K. Charles’s, till he died, 1670. and when he was very young, writ a Play, called,

The Rebellion, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1640. acted by his Majety’s Company of Revels, Nine Days ucceively, as alo divers times ince with good Applaue, and dedicated to a Kinman of his, Robert Ducie, of Aton in the County of Stafford, Eq; There is printed 11 Copies of Veres with this Play, in Commendation of the Author. HE Author of a Play, published 1671. called,

The Town Shifts; or, The Suburbs Jutice, a Comedy, 4 to. 1671. acted at his Royal Highnes, the Duke of York’s Theatre. This is an intructive Play. Nathaniel