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Rh Raging Turk; or, Bajazet the Second; a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1656. which was likewie Acted by the Students of Chrit-Church, Oxon. For the Plot conult the ame Turkih Hitories before mentioned.

Solimus Emperor of the Turks, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1638. For the Plot conult alo the Turkih Hitorians, as ''Paul. Jovius, Mezeray'', &c. in the Reign of Solimus the Firt.

Three of thee five Plays mentioned to be Acted at Oxon, are Printed together in one Volume 8 vo. His Author, like the lat, a Divine, born 1602. at London, at Fourteen was entred at Chrit-Church in Oxon, and choen Student of that Royal Foundation, pat through his everal Degrees to Batchelor of Divinity, and dy’d 1646. He writ one Play by the Name of,

Lodovick Sforza, Duke of Millain, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1632. For the Story ee Guiccardine, lib. 1, 2. &c. Mezeray and Philip de Comines in the Reign of Ch. VIII. This Author has writ everal Poems, ome of them Divine, which are Printed with this Play in 8 vo. Alo ome Sermons Printed 4 to. 1663. Gentleman now living, formerly a Dometick of the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Doret and Middleex; and ince teaches School in the Country. He has given us One Play, called,

The Rival Siters, or the Violence of Love, a Tragedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majety’s Servants 4 to. 1696. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable, James, Earl of Abingdon, &c. This Play was well received, tho’ delay’d for ometime the Acting, as the Author complains in his Epitle. The Plot is almot entirely taken out of Shirly’s Maids Revenge, tho’ he has left out the Characters of Signior Sharkino, a harking Doctor, and his Man Scarabeo; the Story is taken originally out of Reynolds’s God’s Revenge againt Murder, Book 2. Hist. 7. Can only ay, this Author liv’d in Charles the Firt’s time, and writ a Play, called,

Sophompaneos, or the Hitory of Joeph, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1640. with Annotations, this Divine Dramma was writ in Latin by Hugo Grotius,