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Rh E was of Cambridge, in Queen Elizabeth’s Reign, writ a Play, intituled,

The Diobedient Child, 4 to. which he calls, A Pretty Merry Interlude. ’Tis Printed in an old Black Letter, o long ince, that it had not any Date of the Year. Etminter gave him Birth, and the Firt Rudiments of his Learning, under Mr. Cambden; which St. John’s-College of Cambridge, and Chrit-Church of Oxon finih’d, where he took his Mater of Arts Degree; Neceity drove him thence, to follow his Father-in-Law’s Trade of a Bricklayer; working at Lincoln’s-Inn, with a Trowel in his Hand, and Horace in his Pocket, he found a Patron that et him free from that Slavih Employment. He was of an open, free Temper; blunt and haughty to his Antagonits and Criticks; a Jovial and Pleaant Companion; was Poet Laureat to James and Charles the Firt. He died in the Sixty Third Year of his Age, ''An. Dom.'' 1637. and is buried in Wetminter-Abby, near the Belfry, with only this Epitaph:

His Dramatick Pieces, about Fifty in Number, follow:

The Alchymit, a Comedy, Acted by the King’s Majety’s Servants, firt, 1610. and afterwards printed, viz. 1640. and 1692.

Bartholomew-Fair, a Comedy, Fol. 1640. and 1692. Acted firt at the Hope, on the Bank-ide, 1614, by the Lady Elizabeth’s Servants, and Dedicated to King James the Firt; and Acted with good Applaue, since King Charles the Second’s Retauration.

Cateline his Conpiracy, a Tragedy, Fol. 1640. and 1692. and in 4 to. 1611. Acted firt by the King’s Majety’s Servants, 1611. and ometimes ince the Retauration, with good Applaue. Is Dedicated to William, then Earl of Pembrock. Plot from ''Salut. Hit. Plutarch in Vit. Cit.''

Challenge at Tilt, at a Marriage, a Maque, Fol. 1640, and 1692.

Chritmas’s Maque, Fol. 1640, and 1692. This was firt Preented at Court, 1616. Cloriaïa,