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E Liv'd in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and writ this Play towards the latter part of her time, call'd,

The Virtuous Octavia, T.C. 8vo. 1598. and tho' this Play was never Acted, yet the Author had a very good Opinion of it; and his Epistles Printed with it, Compos'd in imitation of Ovid's. Plot from Plutarch's Life of M. Antony. See also the Life of Augustus in Suetonius. Dion. Cassius, &c.

E has Writ and Published nothing more then this one Interlude, call'd,

The old Man's Lesson, and Young Mans Love. Interl. 4to. a very old Piece.

N Author in the Reign of King Charles I. Published these two Plays following (viz.)

The Country Girl, C. 4to. 1647. This Play was Reviv'd just thirty years after its first Publishing, by one Leanard, who gave it a new Title, calling it, Country Innocence, or the Chamber-maid turn'd Quaker. 4to. 1677.

Love-sick King, T.C. 4to. 1655. This Play was also Reviv'd, and Acted at the King's House, under the Title of The Perjured Nun, 4to. 1680. See Speed, ''Polyd. Virgill, Gu. Malmsb. Ingulfus, Higden, Du Chesne, &c''. E Liv'd in Charles I. time, and was a Stirring Attorney and Poet in the Royal Cause, during the Government of those Times. He Published but one Play of his own, entituled,

The Cunning Lovers, C. 4to. 1654. The Story of the Cunning Lovers, taken from the 7 Wise Masters. See also the Nov. of the Fortunate Deceived, and Unfortunate Lovers. Yet