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68 the Firt; he was impatient of Cenure, as well as his admired Ben. and writ a Play, called,

The Rival Friends, a Comedy, 4 to. 1632. Acted before the King and Queen at Cambridge. The Scene betwixt Love-all and Hamerhin, Act 3. Scene 7, from that betwixt True-wit, Daw, and La Fool, in Ben.’s Silent Woman. HIS Peron is mentioned here, for the ake of an abominable Play that is mentioned under his Name, but he is not the Author of it, called,

A Fatal Mitake, or the Plot poil’d, Printed 4 to. 1696, but never Acted. HIS Author, born in Ireland of Englih Parents, his Father was a Miniter, and murdered in the Maacree 1641. He had a little mattering of the University of Oxon, but was oon removed to a Book-eller in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, London. He writ one Play, call’d,

Hic & Ubique, or the Humours of Dublin, a Comedy, 4 to. 1663. Dedicated to Charles, Duke of Monmouth. He writ the Firt, and mot of the Third Parts of the Englih Rogue, The Art of Wheedling, 8 vo. The Complaiant Companion, 12 mo. Venus’s Cabinet unlock’d, 12 mo. with everal other mall Treaties. N Author, of whom I can only ay, That he liv’d in the Reign of Charles the Firt, was Mater of Arts of Oxford, and he writ Two Plays, viz.

Fatal Contract, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1653. Acted by her Majety’s Servants, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable, James, Earl of Northampton, and to Iabella, his Vertuous Countes. Since the Retauration of King Charles the Second, it has been twice reviv’d, firt under the Title of Love and Revenge, with little Alterations; and about Ten Years ago, under the Title of the Eunuch. For the Plot, conult Gregorie de Tours, lib. 4, 5, &c. Aimion, Valois, De Serres, Mezeray, &c. in the Reigns of Chilperic the Firt, and Clotaair the Second. Jews