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138  and dedicated the Play to his honoured Patron, Sir John Helle, but it was not printed till ome Years after his Death. This Play is full of Morality. The Author publih’d three Sermons besides the Play. Nother Tranlator of Seneca’s Tragedies, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, of which he Englih’d Four: viz.

Agamemnon, a Tragedy, 4 to. Our Author has added a whole Scene in the Fifth Act.

Hippolitus, a Tragedy, 4 to. This is a very regular Play, as to Time, Place, and Action.

Hercules Oetæus, a Tragedy, 4 to. A Reemblance of Sophocles’s Trachiniai.

Medea, a Tragedy, 4 to. In this Seneca imitates Euripides, but at too great a ditance, and is alo regular, as mot of his Tragedies are. This Tranlator has altered the Chorus of the First Act. AS born at Witham, in Middleex, 1631. in the beginning of the Eleventh Month; he poke Latin at Five Years old, and writ it at Nine. He was Comptroller to King Charles the Firt. An excellent Muician and Poet: made a Campaign with Gutavus, and was in Five Sieges, Three Battles, &c. he was at the Expence of 12000 l. to raise a Troop for the King. He writ Four Plays, viz.

Aglaura, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. and 8 vo. preented at the private Houe in Black-Fryars. The Author has o alter’d the lat Act, that ’tis at the Pleaure of the Actors to make it a Tragedy or Tragi-Comedy.

Brenoralt; or, The Dicontented Colonel; a Tragedy, 8 vo. preented by his Majety’s Servants, / at the private Houe in Black-Fryars.

The Goblins, a Tragi-Comedy, 8 vo. preented by his Majety’s Servants at the private Houe in Black-Fyars.

The Sad One, a Tragedy, 8 vo. This Play Sir John never finih’d.

Thee Plays, with his other Works, are printed together, 8 vo. the lat Edition printed 1676. If you would ee a further Character of this Author, ee Lloyd’s Memoirs, fol. pag. 159. Gilbert