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8 Gentleman who Liv'd in the Reign of King Charles I. and the Interregnum of Oliver, first bred at Cambridge, and afterwards was a Member of the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn: He writ these three Plays,

Deorum Dona, a Mask, 8vo. This is part of a Romance, writ by Baron, call'd the Cyprian Academy, Printed at Lond. 1647.

Gripus and Hegio, Past. 8vo. A Play consisting of three Acts only, and borrowed a great part from a Play of Webster's, call'd, The Dutchess of Malfey, and the aforesaid Romance.

Mirza, Trag. 8vo. Plot from Herberts Travels, fol. accounted by his Friends a good Play, is Dedicated to the King, and recommended to the world by divers Copies of Verses; for most of the Scenes and Language he seems to have Consulted Ben. Johnsons Catiline. Sir John Denham's Sophy is on the same Subject, and writ about the same time. HIS Author Liv'd in the time of King Charles I. he writ one Play call'd, Ram-Alley, or Merry Tricks, C. 4to. 1611. HIS Author was a Famous Evidence in the Popish Plot, before the Expiration of which he Dy'd, leaving behind him one Play, call'd,

The Excommunicated Prince: or, The False Relick, T.C.Fol. 1679. The Plot taken out of Heylin's Geography, in his Account of Georgia. His Life is Printed in 8vo. 1681. HIS Authoress, whose Name was Aphara, not Astrea, as many have thought, was Born in the City of Canterbury in Kent, her Maiden Sirname Johnson; she was much admired in her Youth for her Beauty, as afterwards for her Poetick Works, in which she