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62  to the truly Noble John, Earl of Peterborough, Lord Mordant, Baron of Turney.

The Suns Darling; a Mask, 4 to. 1657. Preented by their Majeties Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Southampton. This Play was not wholly written by this Author, but Decker join’d with him therein. HIS Author liv’d in the Reign of King Charles I. and has writ one Play, call’d,

Loves Labyrinth; or, The Royal ShepherdeSS 3, a Tragi-Comedy, 8 vo. 1660. Part of it taken from Gomeral’s Tragedy of Sforza, Duke of Millain, and is bound up with his other Works in 8 vo. 1661. Devonhire Gentleman who liv’d in the Reign of K. Charles II. and writ one Play, call'd,

The Reward of Virtue; a Comedy, 4 to. 1661, never Acted whilt the Author liv’d, but after his Death Mr. Shadwell Reviv’d and Alter’d it; and then under another Title, (viz.) The Royal ShepherdeSS 3, it was Acted with Applaue. HIS Poet liv’d in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; in a Book writby him, call’d, The Countes of Pembroke’s Ivy-Church, is one Dramatick Patoral, entituled,

Amintas Patoral; 4 to. 1591. writ in Hexameters, and is a Tranlation of Tao’s. His Gentleman after the Martyrdom of K. Charles I. writ one Play, call’d,

Imperiale; a Tragedy, 4 to. 1655. and Dedicated to John Morris, Eq; For the Plot conult Pontanus, Rudæus’s Treaury of Ancient and Modern Times, Beard’s Theatre of God’s Judgments part 2. Page 45. Wanley’s Hitory of Man, Book 4. Chap. 2. Goulart Hit.