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70 Thee being ome of the firt Plays appeared in our Englih Language, nothing in Commendation will be expected of them. This Author writ Two or Three Books of Epigrams, Publih’d in 4 to. alo a Book called Monumenta Literaria. HIS Author was both Actor and Poet, liv’d in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and King James I. He writ, or had aited in compoing Two Hundred and Twenty Plays, of which there are but Twenty Five remain entire. Mr. Langbain ets up for a Vindication of this Author, in the ame Book that he condemns Mr. Dryden, which indeed is enough to render his Judgment very much upected, and that the Variety of Plays he had read, either corrupted his Tate, or ele that he never had any.

The Golden Age, or The Lives of Jupiter and Saturn, &c. 4 to. 1611. Acted at the Red Bull, by the Queen’s Majety’s Servants. See Galtruchius’s Poetical Hit., RoSS 3’s Mitagogus Poeticus; Hollyoak, Littleton, and other Dictionaries.

The Silver Age, a Hitory, 4 to. 1613. See Plautus, Ovid’s Metamorph. lib. 3. and other Poetical Hit.

Brazen Age, a Hitory, 4 to. 1613. See Ovid’s Metamorph. lib. 4, 7, 8, and 9.

Iron Age, Part I. a Hitory, 4 to. 1632. For the Plot, &c. ee Virgil, Homer, Lucian, Ovid, &c.

Iron Age, Part II. 4 to. 1632. For the Plot, conult the ame Authors before mentioned.

A Challenge for Beauty, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to., 1636. Acted at the Black-Fryars, and at the Globe on the Bank Side, by his Majety’s Servants.

The Dutches of Suffolk, her Life, a Hitory, 4 to. 1631. Acted then with good Applaue. For the Plot, ee Fox’s Martyrology, ''An. Dom.'' 1558. and Clark’s Martyrology, pag. 521.

Edward the Fourth, Two Parts, a Hitory, 4 to. 16001599 [sic]. See the hereof, in the Chronicles of Hollinghead, Speed, Du Chene, &c.

The Englih Traveller, a Tragi-Comidy, 4 to. 1633. Acted at the Cock-Pit in Drury-Lane, by her Majety’s Servants. Both Plot and Language of Lyonel and Reignald, tollen from Plautus’s Motellaria. See the Story of Wincote, Geraldine, and Dalavil, in the Hitory of Women, by this Author, where he affirms the aid Stories at large to be true. Fair