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72 Royal King, and Loyal Subject, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1627. Acted by the Queen’s Servants, with good Applaue. Compare this with the Loyal Subject, writ by Beaumont and Fletcher.

Wie Woman of Hogsden, a Comedy, 4 to. 1638, often times Acted with good Applaue.

Woman Kill’d with Kindnes, a Comedy. 4 to. 1617. Acted by the Queen’s Servants, with good Applaue.

Our Author has Publihed everal other Pieces, in Vere and Proe, as The Hierarchy of Angels, Fol. The Life and Troubles of Queen Elizabeth, 8 vo. The Lives of Nine Women Worthies, 4 to. The General Hitory of Women, 8 vo. An Apology for Actors, 4 to. and Pleaant Dialogues and Dramas, 8 vo. Know not whether this Gentleman be yet living or not; but he was a Barriter of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple: A Peron known to all the converable part of the Town, for his Pleaant and Facetious Company; and allow’d to be a Man of Wit, tho’ it were to be wih’d he had not Publih’d his Play of

The wary Widdow, or, Sir Noiy Parrat, a Comedy, 4 to. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeties Servants, 1693. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable, Charles, Earl of Doret and Middleex, &c. The ill Succes of this Play, the Author gives us in the Preface, which complains of the ungenerous Uage the Bear-garden Criticks gave it with Catcalls, &c. which, how hort oever it may be of what might be expected from o celebrated a Wit, as Mr. Higden was eteemed, it could never deerve; since Sir Charles Sidley could think it worthy a Prologue of his making. ’Tis uher’d into the World by Five Copies of Englih Vere, and One of Latin. E was born in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, in All-Saints Parih in Oxon; his Couin, Dr. Ravis, early entred, and choe him Student of Chrit-church; after his Degrees of Batchelor and Mater of Arts, was made Archdeacon of Oxonhire, died 1661. at Eifly, near Oxon, and was buried at Chrit-Church in Oxon. He writ One Play, under the Title of

, or, The Marriage of the Arts, a Comedy, 4 to. 1630. Acted by the Students of Chrit-Church, aforeaid, at Shrovetide. This Play was then in good Eteem. He hath written divers Pieces, as his Tranlation of the Satyrs of Juvenal and Pereus, with