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152 * His Author writ a very diverting Play, call’d, The Two Merry Milk Maids; or, The best Words near the Garland, a Comedy, 4to. 1661. play’d before the King with great Applause, by the Company of the Revels. Part of the Plot from the Tenth Day, Nov. 5. of Boccace's Novels, and is the Foundation of several Plays, as Fletcher's Four Plays in One, &c. Nder these Two Letters are these Two Plays following: Hell's High Court of Justice; or, The Tryal of Three Politick Ghosts, viz. Oliver Cromwell, King of Sweeden, and Cardinal Mazarine; a Tragedy, 4to. 1661.

The Mall; or, The Modish Lovers; a Comedy, 4to. 1674. acted by the King's Servants, and dedicated to William Whitcom, Junior, Esq; supposed by Dr. Hide, the Proto-Bibliothicarius, to the University) to be Mr. Dryden's, tho' it differs much from the Stile of his Works. His Translator and Author was some time Master of Arts of Magdalen-Colledge, Oxon; publish’d Two Plays:

Alphonsus, King of Arragon, a comical History, 4to. 1599. as it has been sundry times acted.

Ignoramus, a Comedy, 4to. 1662. very often acted with Applause before King James the First, written originally in Latin and translated by our Author. His Author was of Exeter-Colledge, Oxon; and whilst Batchelor of Arts, writ Sicily and Naples; or, The Fatal Union; a Tragedy, 4to. 1640. There were several Copies of Verses in Praise of this Play, writ by the Students of Oxon.

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