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148 His Author, tho’ a Presbyterian Doctor, writ one Play and divers Poems, but is mot famous for his Iter Boreale. The Play is intituled,

The Benefice, a Comedy, 4 to. 1689. The Deign taken from another Play, call’d, The Return from Parnaus; or, A Scourge for Simony. HE Author of a Play, publih’d one Patoral in Vere, call’d,

Atræa; or, True Love’s Mirrour; a Patoral, 8 vo. 1651. It is dedicated to the Illutrious Princess, Mary, Dutches of Richmond and Lenox. Plot from a Romance o called. E liv’d in the Reign of King Charles the Firt, and writ (beides one he join’d with Day and Rowley in) a Play, call’d,

The Mieries of Inforced Marriage, a Tragi-comedy, 4 to. 1637. Mrs. Behn took her Plot and great part of the Language of this Play, to her Town Fop; or, Sir Timothy Tawdry. The other Play he join’d in, is called, The Travels of Three Englih Brothers. Poet of Queen Elizabeth’s Reign, and at the Requet of the Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple, writ,

Tancred and Grimond, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1592. acted before her Majety by the Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple; and dedicated it to the Right Worhipful and Vertuous Ladies, the Lady Mary Peter, and the Lady Ann Grey. Plot, Nov. 1. Day 4. of Boccace’s Novels. N Author of the Place of whoe Birth I am ignorant; he was once Recorder of Londonderry, and ometime reided in Dublin, where he writ Belphegor, which was afterwards acted in London. He