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Rh Learned Gentleman of Cumberloe-Green, in Hertfordhire, who in the time of King Charles the Firt, writ the Hitory of the Philoophers, and in that a Play of Aritophanes, called,

The Clouds, a Comedy, fol. 1687. Tranlated from Aritophanes, printed with his Hitory of Philoophy, Re-printed about Ten Years ince. He tranlated Æchylus’s Tragedies into Latin; also Anacreon and Mochus, from the Greek. He has publih’d likewie divers Tranlations from Latin, Spanih, and Italian; beides his Poems in Englih, 8 vo. and two mall Romances or Novels, 8 vo. Learned Author who was Gentleman Uher of the Privy Chamber to King Charles the Second; and is, I uppoe, till living. He writ Two Plays:

Hero and Leander, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1669. dedicated to her Grace, the Dutches of Monmouth. Plot from Ovid’s Epitles, and Muæus’s Erotopagnion, Greek, and Latin.

The Slighted Maid, a Comedy, 4 to. 1663. dedicated to his Grace, the Duke of Monmouth. Plot from Mart. Epigr. 4. &c. His Author, who liv’d in the Reign of King James the firtFirst [sic], writ one very long Play, call’d,

Cynthia’s Revenge, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1613. Plot from Lucan’s Pharalia, and Ovid’s Metamorphois, lib. 13. Oet and Divine in the Reign of King Charles the FrtFirst [sic]; he was born in Devonhire, entred at Nineteen, and admitted Student of Chrit-Church, Oxon; having taken mot of his Degrees, was choe Univerity-Orator, and after that commenc’d Doctor, and was made a Cannon by the King. He died March 11. 1644, and was buried at Chrit-Church afore-aid.

The Floating Iland, a Comedy, 4 to. 1655. acted by the Students of Chrit-Church, before his Majety, at Oxon. 1639. The Airs and Songs were set by Mr. Henry Lawes. The Author had