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Rh (viz.) Andrea, Adelphi, Eunuchus, Heutontimorumenos, Hecyra, and Phormio, the Fourth Edition in 4to. 1614. The four first of these Comedies are borrowed from Menander. The two last taken from Apollodorus. He generally brought two of Menander's into one of his. He was thought to have the help of Lælius and ''Pub. Scipio'', in his Writings which he thought an Honour, not Disgrace.

Hether this Authoress be yet Living, I know not; she Liv'd, and Writ in the time of King Charles II. a Play call'd,

Marcelia, or The Treacherous Friend, T.C. 4to. 1670.

Noble Man of the Kingdom of Ireland, eminent both in Arts and Arms, as a Poet and as a Patron; he dyed Octob. 1679. and has Published these following Plays,

Black Prince: For the Story consult ''Walsinghami Hist. Angl. Wigornensis Chronicon. Polid. Virgilii. Florentii Monarch. Froissard Chron. de France, & d'Angleterre, English Chronicles in Reign of Edw.'' III.

Tryphon: Consult the first Book of Maccabes, Josephus, lib. 13. Appian de Bellis Syriacis, &c.

Henry V. See the English Chronicles in the Reign of that King, and the Reign of King Charles VI. in the French Chronicles, as ''Jean juvenal des Ursins, Le Hist. de Charles'' VI. Mezeray, &c.

Mustapha: Consult for the Plot Thuanus, lib. 12. ''Tho. Artus la continuacon de le Hist. des Tourc's, and Knowles'''s Turkish Hist. These four in Folio; the two first Published 1672. the other two in 1677.

Guzman, A Comedy Acted at the Theatre Royal. 1693. The Plot of this Play is taken from a Romance of that Name.

Herod the Great, a Tragedy, Printed 1694. I do not find that this Play was ever Acted. The Story of this Prince you will find in Josephus, and his Life in Caussin's Holy Court.

These two Plays are bound up with the rest of his Plays, in fol., and tho' the Title Page tells us that the first was Acted, yet there is no Drammatis Personæ before it.

He also writ one other Play, call'd, Master Anthony, 4to. 1690. The Prologue to this, is the same of that to one of Durfey's Plays, call'd, The Fool turn'd Critick.

Samuel