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122 The Unhappy Kindnes; or, A Fruitles Revenge, a Tragedy, 4 to. acted at the Theatre Royal, 1696. This Play is only the Wife for a Month of Fletcher’s alter’d, tho’ he has thought fit to retain its greatet Faults, in the Character of the Wife, whoe Behaviour to her Husband, to provoke him to eae her of her Maiden-head, is by no means agreeable to the Modety of the Sex, which is a Sin againt the Manners. N Author now living, who was ome time at Trinity-Colledge, Oxon; but coming to London, and having been there poeed with Poetry, pent a very good Fortune, and then tuck to the Stage, which yet would not tick to him; his ficklenes in political Principles (having once been an active Man for the Whigg-Party) lot him too his Friends on the other Side, without any Reward for his Deertion. Whatever his Plays are (which if compar’d with the bet of our preent Writers, I mean ome of them, far excel ’em) in the Opinion of his Enemies, he has perform’d in ome, with no les applaue than Merit; in his Dipute with Mr. Dryden, he had evidently the better of him; tho’, being a modet Man, he uffer’d himelf to be rnnrun [sic] down by his Antagonit in his Interet in the Town.

The Ambitious Slave; or, A Generous Revenge, a Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal, 4 to. 1694. and dedicated to the Honoured John Bright, Eq; which Dedication the Author begins with the ill Fortune of the Play. The Scene he has plac’d in Peria, from whence I find he is carce to be got.

Cambyes, King of Peria, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1675. acted at the Duke’s Theatre; dedicated to the Illutrious Princes Ann, Dutches of Monmouth. This Play old two Impreions before this time of printing, and is in Heroick Vere. Plot, Jutin, Lib. 1. Cap. 9. Amianus Marcellinus, Lib. 23. Herodotus, &c.

The Conquet of China by the Tartars, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1676. acted at the Duke’s Theatre; and dedicated to the Lord Catle-Riing. This Play is founded on Hitory, and writ in Heroick Vere. Plot, Heylin’s Comography, Book 3. Conquet of China by Signior Palafax, Englihed, 8 vo. Lewis de Guman, and Gonzales de Mendoza.

Ditreed Innocence; or, The Princes of Peria, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1691. acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeties Servants; and dedicated to the Right Honourable John, Lord Cutts, Baron of Gowram. This