Library of Emory University 269224 WAR 8 1954 ...w.. THE LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF THE Englijh ^Dramatick^ PoETS. ALSO An Exaft ACCOUNT of all the PLAYS that were ever yet Printed in the Eng- lifn Tongue $ their Double Titles, the Places where A&ed, the Dates when Printed, and the Perfons to whom Dedicated , with Remarks and Obfer- vations on moft of the faid Plays. Firft begun by Mr. Langbain, improv'd and continued down to this Time, by a Careful Hand. LONDON: printed for Nich. Cox, and William Turner, and are to be fold at the White Horfe without Temple-Bar. 1699. Ce»\ \& cTTi O ">TS . D? 11 the Epiftle Dedicatory, »T Q CHA R LES CjEfq- O F Bonnington in Hertfordfcire. Honoured Sir, I Have long had an Ambition to lay fome- thing at your Feet that might be wor¬ thy your Protection, but defpairing to produce any thing my felf deferving of that Honour, and impatient of making known how Proud I am of being in the Crowd of your Admirers, I cou'd not but lay hold of this Opportunity, where fhe Merit of the Sub- jed:, and Afliftants f have had, n;;ght in fome Meafure attone for what is deficient in my Performance, I offer, Sir, to your Prote&ion A % this The Epiftle Dedicatory. .ibis Hiftory of the Lives and Works of all the Dramatick Poets of your Native Country, of Which few Nations have produc'd fo great a Number under fo very little Encouragements. But to ftiew them, Sir, the more Worthy your Patronage, I fhall lay down a fliort Account of what Value their Art has been, in the moft polite and politick, as well as moft fuceefsful Go¬ vernment in the World. Athens, Rome, and France will furnifh me with the Proofs I want. Athens gave Birth and Perfection to the Art, and feems, like the true Mother, to have been moft fond of ir, and therefore gave its profeflors the greateft Encou¬ ragement. The Value that Government had for both is evident from thefe two Tnftances: Sophocles, as a Reward of his Antigone, had the Government of the City and Ifland of Sams Confer'd upon him : And on the Death of Eupo- Us in a Sea-Fight, there was a Law publiih'd, jfchae no Poet for the Future ihou'd go to the Wars; fo great a Lofsthey thought the Death of one Poet to the Commonwealth, Thus we fee that Athens that was the moft Populous and Trading City of Greece, and which produc'd braver, better, and more learned Men £han all Greece beftdes, prove, by the Encourage¬ ment Hie gave Dramatick Poetry, that it was the ppinion of the Wifdom of that State, that Plays : r " " were The Epijl'e Dedicatory, were To far from being deftru&ive of Induftfy and good Morals, that they were equally con¬ ducive to the Honour and Advantage of its Peo° pie. To fay nothing of the Care that was ta&en of the Poets, and the Efteem they were in among the Greateft and Braveft of the Old Romans • I ftiall only mention the Great Macenas, who laid the Foundation of the greateft Monarchy that ever was in the World; who form'd as Great and Politick Defigns, did as Great Servi¬ ces to his Prince as any Man whatever; and and who indeed eftabliih'd the greateft Emperor over the moft Free and Polite People in the Uni- verfe; Mxcenas I fay, thought Poetry fo worthy his peculiar Care, that we owe the beft of the Roman Poets to him, and his Name is pafs'd from a Proper to a Common Name for all Gene¬ rous Patrons. 'Tis yet frefh in our Memories what that* Ma* fter in Politicks, the great Richelieu has done for thefe Politer Studies in France. The Theatres, the Academy remain a glorious Monument of it; and yet no Man could have fled with a better Pretence to the Multiplicity of Affairs, no Map ever difpatching more Bufinefs,, or forming more Succefsful, and Serviceable Defigns for his Matter's Advantage, and the prefent and fuc- £eedin£ Glory and Grandeur of France ; for tq A 3 h is The Epiflle Dedicatory. his Counfels the French Monarchy owes all that Terror and Power, with which we have (een all Europe fo lately ftruggle with : And yet this great and bufy Polititian could find a time in fpight of the Weight of the whole Adminiftra- tion of France, to take Care of the Mufes, and thought it an Honour to himfelf and Country for the lading Advantage of learned Men and Poets. He took Care of the Reformation of the Stage, and by his Order the Abbe Hedelmt compos'd a Piece of the whole Art of the Stage. But our Nation, alas! Furnifh'd with as brave a People, and a greater Genius for Poetry tlian our Neighbours, has never yet been fo hap¬ py, as to find in the Adminiftration, any Man with Soul enough, to think the Care of the Mufes worth their Thoughts; and yet the World will never be indwc'd to belisve, that they are wifer or greater Politicians than Maecenas or Ri~ chelien. This Negledt of their Science has forc'd the Poets, who had nothing to expedfc from the Go¬ vernment,, to make the mod Noble and ufeful School of Venue, degenerate into a meer Di• Derfion \ that they might Pieafe an Audience, whence they cou'd only hope for their Support. And this has laid the Stage open to the weak Af- faults The Epijlle Dedicatory» faults of thole whom either Biggottry, Intrejl, or Hypocrtfy have made its Enemies. 'Tis not therefore the fupine and criminal Negleft of the Great Men (I mean the Mini- fters) of our Nation, that we are to form the Efteem that is due to this Science by; but the Care and value the moftrefin'd and moft fuccefsfu! Polititians in the World have Dilcover'd for it; If the Englijh States-Men come fhort of this, 'tis to be look'd on by all Men of true Senfe, as their Defedi and Infamy, not their Wifdom. Wherefore , tho' the Publick has not yet thought fit to take this into its Confideration and Prote&ion, yet I had reafon to think a Man of Mr. Cafars Qualifications, cou'd not but be pleas'd to extend his Protection to thofe, whole Bufmefs it is to celebrate the Vertuesthat gain you the general Efteem. You that forfbok the lower pleasures of Fortune and Youth, for i the Purfuit cf Honour and Glory in the War; You, Sir, that in your Anions have fhown the Hero, have a nearer Reafon than other Men, to tafce care of the Poets, whofe task it is to cele¬ brate the Heroes Deeds, and to tranfmit them in their moft engaging Form to Pollerity, for their Honour and Imitation. Carmen amat quiffa carmina d'tgna gerit. A 4 You The Epijlle Dedicatory» You, Sir, that have added to your Birth and Fortune fo llrong and general a Love, that your Wit, Sweetnejs of Temper, and Honour, defeat that Envy which Merit ufualiy raifes, will natu¬ rally take care of thofe, whofe Imployment it is to diftinguifti betwixt the Pretence, and Reality ; the Man of true Senfe and Bravery, and the Flaftiy Opiniator, and the vain Boafter of his own Deeds. From you therefore I hope, Sir, a favourable Reception, when I fhelter all our Dramatick Writers under the Prote&ion of your Name; for in you we (hall find a Manly, yet Modeft Me«; rit Wprthy at oncey and negligent of Fame. Wit without Opiniatreture; but balanc'd with a true and penetrating Judgment; Bravery which has nobly diftinguiih'd you from the Remifnefs of the Inglorious Youth of the Age, witnefs your Voluntary Campaigns in Flanders ; a Ge- nerofity that gets you the Efteem of all Men, while the fordid are the Contempt and Laughter of Men of Senfe. v I need be no farther particular in the Enume¬ ration of your Vertues, fince where ever Gene- rofity goes juftly to the making up of a Chara¬ cter, there can be no Vertue wanting. On this Vertue Tbe Epijile Dedicatory. Vertue, Sir, it is that I depend for your Pardon for the Prefumption of this Dedication, which I hope I lhall gain with the greater eafe, becaufe I have kept clear of the Crime of Dedications, Flattery, having confin'd my (elf much within the Compafs of fevere Truth, and the Sentiments of, Sir, Tour wofi Devoted, Humble, and Oledient Servant, &c. Charles Gildon. THE THE PREFACE. I Do not trouble the Reader with this Preface becaufe'tis the Mode to fay fomething before evry Boobut becaufe there is a NeceJJity of premifmg a Word or two as t« the following Treatifes, and the other Effays of this Nature, that have al¬ ready been feen. I fhall take no notice of Mr. WinftanleyV or Mr. Phillips's, for one I never faw, and the other I could not read, and Mr. Langbain has difcovered their Defefts fufficient to juftify his undertaking a more-perfect Wor^ and which he indeed in the I aft Edi¬ tion he has pretty near accompliflid. I muft own that bis Underta¬ king has favd me a great deal of Trouble, but then he is every where fo partial, that he deftroys the Char after of a Critick. and Hiflorian at once, whofe Objeft ought always to be Truth j whereas Mr. Langbain feems every where to gratify fome private Pique, and feldotn to regard the Merit of the Perfon he refletts upon. This I have every where avoided, and difiinguifi'd betwixt the Defert and Defett of the Author. Mr. Langbain is farther gene¬ rally jniftakcn in his Cenfures as a Critic£, he feems to have known nothing of the Matter, to have had little or no Tafte of Dramaticl^ Poetry: and a Stranger to our Stage woud from his Recommendation make a very odd and ridiculous Colle&im of our Englifi Plays. He often commends, Shirley, Heyvvood, &c. and will fcarce allow Mr. Dryden a Poet \ whereas the former have left us no Piece that bears any Proportion to the latter *, the All for Love of Mr. Dryden, were it not for thefalfe Moral, wou'd be a Maflerpiece that few of the Ancients or Moderns ever equaled; and Mr. Shirley, and Mr. Heyvvood have not left enough in all their Wri¬ tings to compofe one tolerable Play, according to the true Model and Defign of a Play. Mr. Langbain has in many of the Lives, fwell'd them out with interlarding theh with tedious Copies of Verfes little to the purpofe in Hand, which I was obliged to ''avoid for Two Reafws •, Fir ft I de¬ fign d to give the Reader as compendious an Account of our Drama¬ tic^ Writers as I coud, and fo to bring my Book. to an eafier Price than Mr. Langbain'^ And therefore I wasy Secondly, fore d to leave t out The PREFACE. out all that was Superfluous: And this the rather, becaufe I hadfeve- red Lives and Remarks to add to this Edition, which he coudgive no Account of j fome of the Authors having appear'd fmce his time, and others, by the Advantage of the ingenious Mr. Afh\r admirable Col¬ lection of Englifh Plays, I have met with, which he never faw j all which has renderd this more Perfeft in its Kind than his coud be: be- fides, writing after him, I have endeavoured to avoid his Faults, and preserve his Beauties. Next I have to inform the Reader, that the following Piece is not writ al! by one Hand, as will, I believe, be perceived in the Reading. And laftly, I find on the perufal of it, fomething in the Boof^> which I muft differ from in the Preface, and that is in the Account of Mr. Oldnrixon'-f Amintas, where 'tis remarked, that Paftoral v. a Modern Invention, when in reality, the Ancients had a fo, t of Dramatick, Per¬ formance not unlike it, that is, their Satyrs, which might be j,'aid to be fomething of a nature with our Paftoral■, but if we may guefs at what is loft by what remains of that kind, it was alfo fomething different. In the Cyclops of Euripides, we find the Shepherds were the major part ef the Dramatis Perfonx; for fuch was Polyphemus, Silenus, and the Chorus: But the CharaCter of Ulyffes hightned the Play, and gives a greater Force to the Pajjions •, 'tis not the Love of Po¬ lyphemus, but his Cruelty we fee ■, and the Dexterity and Wifdom of UlyfTes. of this fort of Poem, Mr. Dacier in his Preface to the Satyrs of Horace, will give you fomething a fuller Account. And as this takes its Rife from Antiquity, fo Farce, in forr.e Meafure, may derive it [elf from the Pantomimi; at leaft theft fort of Farce which the Italian Players in Paris us'd to aft th)' the Mimi and the Panto- mimi were efteemd for their admirable Exprefjion of Nature in Afli- m on and Dancing ■, but our Farce is fomething beyond Nature, and Ex¬ travagant to a Degree of Naufeoitfnefs, to all good Judges. I have lately read Mr. Congreve'j Love for 'Love over, and am of Opinion, that the Contrivance of the Marriage of Tattle and Mrs. Frail is highly probable, tho the Reflexions on that Play do feem not to admit it as abfolutely fo. Laftly, 1 have to advertife the Reader, that on the Perufal of the lad Sheets of this Book , I found that in the Remark, on Beauty in Diftrefs, one of my Affiftants has feem'd to imply, that the Author is more a Comick. than Tragick. Poet 3 I cannot agree with him, for I think, 'tis an extraordinary Effort for the firft Undertaking in Tragedy, in which moft have fail'd in their firft Attempt: I fay this, leaft any thing my Friend faid, fhould feem a leffeningof that Performance of the Author, which he ajfures me he never meant. THE THE AMES O F T H E Known Authors. A A. Lexander William, Earl of Sterline page i Armin Robert 4 B. BAily Abraham Bancroft John Banks John Barnes Barnaby Baron, Efq-, Robert Beaumont Francis Bed loe William Behn Aphara Belchier Dawbridgecouirt Bernard Richard Boothby, Mrs. Frances Boyle Roger, Earl of Orrery. Ib. Erandon Samuel 12 Breton Nicholas Ibid. Brewer Anthony Ibid. Brome Alexander Ibid. Brome Richard 15 Bourn Ruben Ibid. Birkhead Henry 14 Burnel, E[% Henry. Ibid. 5 Ibid. 6 7 8 Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. 10 Ibid. 11 C. GArew, Lady Elizabeth 14" Carew Thomas Ibid. Cartel!, Efq\ Lodovvick 15 Carlifle James Ibid. Carpenter Richard 16 Cartwright George Ibid. Cartwright William Ibid. Chamberlain Robert 17 Chamberlain William Ibid."» Chapman George 18 • Cibber Col ley 19 Cockain, Sir Afton 21 • Congreve William Ibid* Cook, Ejq-y Edward 2* Cook John 26 Corey John Ibid. Cotton, Efq-, Charles Ibid. Cowley Abraham 27 Cox Robert 28 Crown John Ibid'4 D. DAncer John 51 Daniel Samuel Ibid. D'Avenantj Sir William 52 DAvenant P-55 Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. 37 38 Ibid. 39 Ibid. 40 Ibid. 47 48 Ibid. The Authori Names. D'Avenant, Da Charles Davenport Robert Dauborn Robert Day John Deckar Thomas Denham, Sir John Dennis John Dilke Thomas Dogget Thomas Dover John Drake, Dr. James Dryden, Efq■, John Dryden, Junior, John Duffet Thomas D'Urfey Thomas Granyile, Efq-, George Green Alexander Green Robert p. 66 Ibid. Ibid. H. H Abington, Efq; William 6y E. ECclefton Edward 55 Etheridge, Sir George Ibid. F. FAne, Sir Francis $4 Fanfhaw, Sir Richard Ibid. Falkland Henry,Lord Vifcount 55 Field Nathaniel Ibid. Filmer, Dr. Edward Ibid. Fifhbourn <>6 Flecknoe Richard Ibid. Fletcher John 57 Ford John 61 Ford Thomas 6 2 Fountain John Ibid. Fraunce Abraham Ibid. Freeman, Sir Ralph Ibid. Fulvvell Ulpian 63 (?• GAfcoign George 63 Glapthorn Henry <54 GofF Thomas Ibid. Gomerflial Robert <$$ Gould Robert Ibid. Gouldjmith, Efq, Francis 65 Harris Jofeph Haufted Peter Haynes Jofeph Head Richard Hemings William Heyvvood Jafper Hey wood John Heyvvood Thomas Higden, Efq\ Henry Holyday Barton Hool Charles Hopkins Charles Howard, Efq; Edward Howard, Efq, James Howard, Sir Robert Howell, EfqJames. I. JEvorn Thomas Ingeland Thomas Johnfon Benjamin Jones John Jordan Thomas Joyner William K. Killigrew Henry Killigrew Thomas Killigrew, Sir William Kirk John Knevet Ralph Kid Thomas L. Leariard John T Acey John Ibid. Ibid. <58 Ibid. Ibid, 69 Ibid. 7° 72 Ibid. 73 Ibid. 74 7$ Ibid. 76 16 77 Ibid. 81 Ibid. 82 82 Ibid. 83 84 Ibid. Ibid. S4 8$ Ice Lee Nathaniel Lilly John if>dge Thomas Lower, Sir William Lupon Thomas M. The Authors Names. pag. 85 87 88 ibid, ibid. MAchin Lewis 8 9 Maid well L. ibid. Maine, Dr. Jafper ibid. Manley, Mrs. Delarivier 90 Manuch Cofmo 91 Markham Gervafe 9 2 Marlow Chriftopher ibid. Marmion Shakerly 93 Marfton John - ibid. Mafon John 94 Maffenger Philip ibid. May Thomas 96 Mead Robert 97 Medbourn Matthew ibid. Meriton Thomas ibid. Middleton Thomas 98 Milton John roo Montague, Ef% Walter 101 Motteux Peter ibid. Mountford William 102 N P. PAIfgrave John Pag. Peaps Peel George ^ Philips, Mrs. Catharine Pix, Mrs. Mary Pordage, Efq-y Daniel Porter Henry .Porter Thomas Povvel George Prefton Thomas Prefhvich Edmund -vrAbs Thomas JlN Nafh Thomas 102 103 Nevile Alexander 104 Nevile Robert ibid. Newcaftle, Duke ibid. Newcaftle, Dutchefs 10$ Newton Thomas 106 Norton Thomas ibid. Nuce Thomas 107 U /""\T way Thomas 107 vj Oldmixon John 109 Q 4 llarles Francis R. RAndoIph Thomas Ravenfcroft Edward Rawlins Thomas Revet Edward Richards Nath. Rider William Rowley William Rowley Samuel Rutter Jofeph Rymer Thomas SAckvi'e Tho. fee Norton S.impfon William Sandys, Efq-, George Saunders Charles I Scot Thomas | Settle Elkaaah J Shad well, Efq-, Thomas Shakefpear William ! Sharp Lewis i Sharpham Edward j Shepheardj S. ; Sherburn, EJq-} Ed. no ibid, ibid, ibid. in 112 ibid, ibid. 113 ibid. 114 114 115 ibid. 117 ibid. 118 ibid, ibid. 119 ibid, ibid. 10 6 120 121 ibid, ibid. 122 124 12 6 I 29 igoX ibid ibid. Ship- the Authors Nam). Shipman, Ef% Tho. Pag. 130 Shirley Henry , 131 Shirley James ibid. Sidley, Sir Chaxles 134 Smith John ibid. Smith William ibid. Southern Thomas 13$ Stanley, Eff, Thomas 137 . Stapleton, Sir Robert ibid. Stephens John ibid. Strode William ibid. Studley J. 138 Suckling, Sir John ibid. Swinhoe Gilbert. 139 T. TAte, Efq> Nahum 139 Tateham John 140 Taylor Robert 141 Thompfon Thomas ibid. Trot Nicholas ibid. Tuke Richard > ibid. Tuke S. ibid. Turner Cyril 142 Tutchin John ibid. V. "V"Anbrug, Captain 142 W. WAger Lewis 145 Waller, Efq-, Edw. ibid. Wapul George 146 Wager William ibid. Waver R. ibid. Webfter John Wefton, Efq-j John Whitaker Wild, Dr. Robert Willan Leonard Wilkins George Wilmot Robert Wilfon John Wilfon Robert Wood Nathaniel Wright John Wright Thomas Wycherly r. Arrington Robert 150 Suppofed Authors 151 , VnJtfowg Authors 1 $6 9 the Appendix. Glldon Charles 174 Grevile Fulk, £.Brook 180 Pembrook Countefs 177 Phillips, Efq] William ibid. Pix, Mrs. Mary 178 Plautus i8r Rivers 178 Shad well, Efq-y Tho. 178 Shirley James j 79 I Terence _ ibid. Trother, Mrs. Catharine 179 | Walker William 180 Pag' 14 6 147 ibid. 148 ibid, ibid. ibid, ibid. 149 ibid, ibid, ibid, ibid. ERRATA. PAge 3. Line 12. put the Comma after jhe. p. 9. 1. 7. for if read are. p. 16. I. 18. read Antiquary, p. 22. I. 40. for Nor read And. p. 39. 1. 22. for Account read Aftion. I. 27. de¬ le e. p. 41. I. i(5. read Albiarm. p. 4$. 1. ult. for firjl read lafl. p. 47. 1. 20. read Lollim. p. $1. 1. 3. read Vittrix. I. ir. read Vandofme. /. 17. dele fairer. 1. 33. dele Cinic. p. 90. I. 36. for adding read Addrefs. p. 102. for Three read Four, 17$. 1. 3. read THE THE Lives andChara&ers O F T H E EnglijhDramatick Poets: WITH AN account OF ALL THE PLAYS, Printed to the Year, A WiUiam Alexander, Earl of Sterling. TH E Title of this Nobleman makes it evident that he de¬ rives his Birth from Scotland, as the Dedication of his Works affords us a Proof that he liv'd in the Time of King James the Firft, for there he has this Stanza: Of this dived Ifle the Nurfelings brave Earjl from inteftine Wars coud not defift, Yet did in Foreign Fields their Names engrave, Whilji whom one fpoild, the other woud affift. Thefe now have One-, whiljl fuch a Head they have, What World of Words were able to refijl / B - thus i Known AUTHORS. A Thus has Thy Worth (Great JAMES) conjoin d them now, . Whom Battels oft did break,but never bow. That he was in Favour with King James, is evident from Sir Robert Aytons Verfes before his Tragedies. As for any Particulars of his Family and Private Affairs I can give you no Account, but that it may be reafonably drawn from his Quality, Nation, and Favour at that time, that he was not unhappy in any of them, at leaft that depended on Fortune. This Nobleman has by his Writings fhew'd Pofterity, that he had a juft Right to his King's Favour, as any one that reads his Recreations of the Mufes will allow. Mr. Langbain tells us of former Editions, but the beft is in Folio, London, Printed for Tho. Harder, 1637. and dedicated to King James, not King Charles the Firft, as Mr. Langbain mi flakes. In this Volume are Four Plays, which he calls, Monarchic^ Tragedies ; The Alexandrean Tragedy, Crcefus, Darius, and Julius Cafar. Nor can I agree with Mr. Langbain, that he has propofed the Ancients for his Model, whom he has fol¬ lowed in nothing but the Chorus: For as for the Unities of Aftion, Time and Place, always obferved by them, he feems to know no¬ thing of them. He feems to miftake the very Ehence of theDra- ma, which 'confifts in Aftion, mod of his being Narration •, and may rather be tenn'd Hiftorical Dialogues, than Dramatick Pieces. There is fcarce one Aftion perform'd in View of the Audience; but feveral Perfons come in, and tell of Adventures perform'd by others or themfelves, and which often have no more to do with the Bufinefs of the Play, than the Perfons that fpeak, as in the Firft Scene of the Fifth Aft of the Alexandrean Tragedy, Arijhtle and Fhoceon, who have no hand in the various Revolutions of that Play, fpend a long Scene on the Uncertainty of Humane Grandeur, only to tell a few Lines of Bufinefs done by fome of Alexander's Captains. This Play is fo far from being after the Model of the An¬ cients,the Aftion fo far from being one, that 'tis multiplied enough for at leaft Ten Plays, it containing the various Revolutions, and Murders of the Commanders of the Macedonean Army, after the Death of Alexander ■, and here, as in the reft, he runs too far back to bring things ab ovo, that have no Relation to the Aftion, as the Scene between Harpagus and Cyrus, and Cr&fus and Sandanis, and hiany more will evince. If he has not followed the Model of the Ancients, he has yet borrowed very freely their Thoughts, tranfla- ting whole Speeches from Seneca, Virgil, and others, as the Firft Aft of Julius C&far from Juno's Speech in the Firft of the Mneids; and many of his Sentences, as well as the Defeft of his Sententi- oufnefs, he owes to Seneca. The Two Firft Afts generally are whol¬ ly foreign to the Bufinefs of the Play, as indeed the greateft part of the other Afts are too. This at leaft may be faid of my Lord, Known AUTHORS. A 5 that he is a very good Hiftorian, and from his Plays the. Reader may gather a great deal of the Affairs of Greece, and Rome. Ji no in the fir ft Aft of Julius Cgfar, gives us the Hiftory of all the In- vafions of the Roman Empire, by the barbarous Nations, whether Gauls or the Cimbri, &c. to the time of Julius Cdtfar, and finding none of them effeftual enough to ruin the Power of the Roman State, which deriving it felf originally from the Trojan Race, fi e could, not but hate, therefore flie now refolves to deftrpy it by Civfl Wars, and to raife her Brothers Servants, the Furies, always obfe- quious to mifchievods Commands, Whilft Furies furious by my Fury made. Says, fhe fhall atlaft do the Work; with which, after a Speech of Two or Three Hundred Lines fiie ends the Aft. Indeed my Lord feems often to have a peculiar Fancy to punning, and that in all his chief Charafters ^ as C&far fays in the Second Aft, Great Pompey'x Pomp is pad' and To feem uncivil in thefe Civil Wars« r But not to wrong my Lord in the Judgment of the Readers, by. thefe ridiculous Quotations; they are to confider, Firft, that this was the Vice of the Age, not the Poet} he having in that, as well as fome other things, imitated the, Vices of our fldmira-. ble Shakefrear, and next that thefe punning Fits come not very of-, ten upon him. To fhew that he writes in another Strain fome-' times, I muft give you Three or Four Lines, (my Brevity denying." more large Quotations) which will give you a Tafte of his better Parts. Love is a Joy, which upon Pain depends •, A Drop of fweet drown d in a Sea of Sowers: What Folly doth begin, that Fury erids y They Hate for Ever, rrho have Lovd for Hours. 'Tis the Refieftion of Adraflus in Cr&fus, the mo ft moving Play, of the Four 5 but to return to C&far. in the Second Aft, C&far - thinks it a part of his Grandeur to boaft his Deeds to Anthony: (who knew 'em well enough before} and betwixt em both, we have an Account of his Commentaries,, and almbft a Diary of his Aftions. I can't omit one thing in this Play, in the Fifth Aft he: brings Brutus, CaffiiK^ Cicero, Anthony, 0c. together after the, Death of Cafar, almoft in the fame Circumftances as Shakefpear-, had done in his Play of this Namef But Sha\efpear\ Anfktiymds B 3 Brutus 4 Known AUTHORS. A Brutus ravifh you, while my Lord's Brutus, Cicero, and Anthony would make you fleep, fo much our Englijh Poet excels. This muft be faid for my Lord's Julius C&far, that it is much the moft re* gular of all his Plays, at leafl in the Unity of Aftion, which is only Cafafs Death, tho' the whole Iaft Aft is almoft redundant, for when C&far is once dead, we have no occafion to hear of the Confequence of it, either in the Grief of Calpurnia, or the Difa- greements of the Noblemen and Commons $ but this may be ob¬ jected I ike wife to Shake ft ear, who gives 1$ a Hi ft or y, not 2 Play. But 'tis time now to give over our Refleftions on this Poet, and give the Reader a more particular account of their Plots, in their Alphabetical Order. The Alexartdrean Tragedy, For the Plot you may confult Quint us Curtius, and the 13th Book of Jujiin, Diodorus Sciculus, /. 18. Orofius, I. 3. c. 21. Jofephus 1.12. c. 1. Appian de Bel lis Syriacis. Saltani Annales Ecclefiaftici A. M. 3730. N. 30. &c. TorrieL A. M. 3730. N. 5. Raleigh's Hiji. I. 4. c. 3. Heyliris Hifi. of Greece, Hovel, 1frc. Crcefus, Taken from Herodot. Clio. jujiin, /. r. c. 7. Plutarch's Life of Solon. Salian. Torniel. A. M. 3510. Xenophons Cyropaideia. Variuf, This, as Mr. Latigbain aflures us, was the Fir ft Fruit of his Loojfhip's Dramatick Mufe, Publi/h'd at Edinburgh, 1503. when he wasyet Lord Menjlne: The Language and defign very much improvd in this laft Folio Edition. As to the Plot, confult Quin- tus Curtius, lib. 3, 4, & 5. Jujiin, I. 11. c. 5. jyc. Viodom, I. 17. Anion, de Expedition Alexandria I. 2. Plutarch's Life of Alexander, Salian, A.M. 2719,&c. Julius C£far, The Story of this Play will be exaftly found in the Roman Hiftories, Plutarch and Suetonius in the Life of Cafar, Appian de Bellis Civilibus, lib. 2. Florus, I. 4. c. 2. Salian, Tor- Kiel, &c. He has writ befides thefe Plays,Vonmfday. A Paran^fis t« Prince Henry,on whofe Death he dedicated it to Prince Charles,afterwards King Charles I. A Fragment of an intended Heroick Poem of Jonathan, of which he has left but one Book. Robert Armin. TH E Author of a Play which Mr. Langbaln never faw, and is called, The Hiftory of the Tm Maids of Moor Claclwith the Life and Simple Manner of John in the Hojpital , PJay'd by the Children of the King's Majefty's Revels, and Printed in 4^0. Lon¬ don > 1609. I believe the Plot may be taken from fome Old Story in Known AUTHORS. B 5 in thofc Times. This Author lived in the Reign of King James I. and in the Title Page difcovers himfelf to be one of his Majefly's Servants, and was, I believe, of the then Company of Aftors, for I find his Name Printed in the Drama of Ben. Jobnfons Alchymijlt among the reft of the eminent Players of that Age; and indeed the Preface of his Play feems to intimate as much. B Abraham Baily. A Gentleman of the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn, and th£ Author of a Comedy call'd, The Spightful Sifter ■, London, Printed in 4 to. 1667. which I prefume never was Atted, being Printed without Prologue, Epilogue, or Dedication, and with Mr. Langbaln, I muft acquit him entirely of being a Plagiary, either as to Characters or Lan¬ guage, and if it fall to any ones Chance to read it, and to ob- fcrve my Lord Occas and Winifreds Chara&ers, will eafily allow tlwt what he has writ is furely all his own. John Bancroft. THIS Author was born in London, and tho' by Profeflfion s. Chyrurgeon , was infefted by the Vicinity of the Wits with Poetry, and has left behind him Two Tragedies, dying about s Year and half ago, he lyes inter d in St. Paul's Covent-Garden. Henry the Second, with the Death of Rofamond, a Tragedy Afred at the Theatre Royal, by their Majefties Servants, London Printed ^to. 1693. This Play has not our Author's Name prefixt to it, but is dedicated by Mr. Mountfort to Sir Tho. Cool^, Knight, Alderman and Sheriff of the City of London. For the Plot confult Daniel, Stow, Speedy Sit Richard Baker, and the reft of the Englijh Chro¬ nicles. Sertorm, a Tragedy, Afted at the Theatre Royal by their Ma- lefties Servants, and London, Printed 1679. 'tis Dedicated to Cap¬ tain Richard Savage, and the Epilogue was writ by Mr. Ravenfcroft. the Elder Corneil has writ on the fame Subjeft. The Story is to be found in Plutarch's Life of Sertorm, Velleius Paterculus, I. 2, Florus, I. 2. c. 22. ookfeller that Publifh'd it, in which he complains of the miftaken Caufe of its Prohibition of the Stage, appealing from the falfe In¬ sinuations of his Enemies, to Mr. Bentl/s Knowledge of its being writ Ten Years before, fo that he could defign no Refle&ion on the prefent Government. His Defenfe feems reafonable, and I think him as much in the Right, when he tells us, that this Trage¬ dy is inferior to none of his former, and that he's confident it wou'd wore the Ladies Tears, He aflures us, he has nicely follow'd the Known AUTHORS. B. 7 Truth of the Story, which you may find in our Chronicles. This Play I look on to be much better than any of the late Tragedies tho' in hisMetaphorSjhe feemsnot to've confulted that Juflnefs which the Rules of good Rhetorick requires but like all other human Performances, as it has its Beauties, it has alfo its Faults, bi£ not j enough of the later to over-ballance the former. The IJland Queen, or the Death of Mary Queen of Scotland, 4 1684. This Play too had the ill fortune to be denyed the Juftice of , appearing on the Stage, but Publiflied by the Author in defence of himfelf and the piece, The Story you may read in Bucha¬ nan, Speed, Camden, Du Chefne, Brantons's Memoirs, Caufons Holy Court, &c. Rival Kings, or the Loves of Oroondates and Statira a Tragedy, 4to. Aftedat the Theatre Royal, 1677. Dedicated to the Lady Catharine Herbert. For the Plot confult the Romance of CaJJan- dra, Quint its Curtiiu, and Juftin. Virtue Betray d, or Anna Bullen, a Tragedy, Afted at his Royal Highnefs the Duke's Theatre, 4to. Lon. Printed 1682. Dedicated to the illuftrious Princefs, Elizabeth Dutchefs of Sojnerfet} for the Plot confult a Book call'd, The Novels of Elizabeth Queen of Eng¬ land, &c. Speed, Herbert, Du Chefne, Dr. Burnet's Hiftory of the Reformation, &c. Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Effex, a Tragedy, Atted at the Theatre Royal by their Majefties Servants, 4^0. Lon. 1682. Dedicated to the molt High and moft Illuftrious Princefs, the La- dv Ann, Daughter to his Royal Highnefs. This has always been 1 Afted with Succefs, and never fail'd to draw Tears from the Eyes of the fair Sex. For the Story, fee the Novel call'd, The Secret Hiftory of the moft Renowned Queen Elizabeth, and the Earl ef Effex, Camden's Elizabeth, Speed, Du Chefne, Stow, Baker, 5 / t Barnaby Barns. A N Author wholiv'd in the time of King James I. he writ but II one Play Publiflied, which bears the Name of the Devil's Charter, a Tragedy, 4to'. 1607. It feems to be written in imitation of Shakefpears Pericles, Prince of Tyre ■, an antient Play, and is an Account of the Life and Death of Pope Alex- • anderVI. See Guiccardins HiSl. Italy : and Maffonm de G eft is Pon- : tificum Romanum. \ There is alfo Publifhed under this Author's Name, a Book of 1 Offices, about Princes, fol. 1606. Robert s Known AUTHORS. B. Robert Baron, Efq$ A Young Gentleman who Liv'din the Reign of King Char Us I. and the Interregnum of Oliver, firft bred at Cambridge, and afterwards was a Member of the Honourable Society of Grays- Inn : He writ thefe three Plays, Deorum Dona, a Mask, 8vo. This is part of a Romance, writ by Baron, call'd the Cyprian Academy, Printed at Land. 1547. Gripw and Hegio, Patf. 8vo. A Play confiding of three Aft& only, and borrowed a great part from a Play of Webfter\ call'd, The Dutchefs of Malfey, and the aforefaid Romance. Mirxa, Trag. Svo. Plot from Herbert's Travels, fol. accounted by his Friends a good Play, is Dedicated to the King, and re¬ commended to the World by divers Copies of Verfes; for tnoft of the Scenes and Language he feems to have Confulted Ben.John- fons Catiline. Sir John Denham\ Sophy is on the fame Subject, and writ about the fame time. HIS Author Livd in the time of King Charles I. he writ one Play call'd, Ram-Alley, or Merry Tricks, C.^to. 1611. Franck Beaumont. See Fletcher. THIS Author was a Famous Evidence in the Popifh Plot, be¬ fore the Expiration of which he Dy'd, leaving behind him one Play, call'd, The Excommunicated Prince : or, The Falfe Relief T.C.Fol. 167^ The Plot taken out of Heylins Geography, in his Account of Georgia. His Life is Printed in 8vo. 16 81. THIS Authorefs, whofe Name was Apbara, not Aflrea, as m^- ny have thought, was Born in the City of Canterbury in Kent, her Maiden Sirname Johnfon; fhe was much admired in her Youth ior her Beauty, as afterwards for her Poetick Works, in which Lodow Barrey. Capt. William Bedloe. Aphara Behn. ffie Known AUTHORS. B. 9 fhe excell'd not only all that went before her of her own Sex, but great part of her Contemporary Poets of the other: She had a great Facility in Writing, aid much of Nature in all fhe writ, was employ'dby Charles II. in the Difcovery of the Dutch Intreagues, in the Dutch War Liv'd belov'd, and Dy'd lamented by all that knew her, and lyes Buried in the Cloyfters of Weftminfter ylbbey, under a great Marble Stone, on which is inferted thefe two Verfes : Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be, Defence enough againft Mortalitie. Her Plays, Seventeen in Number, are as follow in their Alphabe¬ tical Order; Abdelaxer, or the Moor's Revenge, T. 4to. Compare this Play with one of Chriftopher Marios, call'd Luffs Dominion, 8 vo. and you will find it almoft the fame. Amorous Prince, or Curiam Husband, T. C. 4to. Part of it ta¬ ken from the Story of the Curious Impertinent in Don Quixot Part 4. Ch. 6,7,8. _ City Heirefs, or Sir Timothy Treat-All, C. 4to. Part of it from a Play of Middletons, call'd, A mad World, my Mafters, 4to. and part from another of MaJJengers, call'd, the Guardian, 8m Dutch Lover, C. 4to. Plot from Don Feni'fe, 8vo. See the Stories of Eufheme, Theodore, Don fame, and Frederic in that Ro¬ mance. Emperor of the Moon, F. 4to. Taken from Harlequin, Empereur dans le Monde de la lune. Forced Marriage, or The Jealous Bridegroom,T.C. qto. The firft Play fhe Writ. Falfe Count,or a New way to play an Old Game, C. 4to. Ifabella's being deceiy'd by the Chimney Sweeper, taken from Mo tier es des pre- cieufes Ridicules. Feign'd Courtezans or a Nights Intreague, C. 4to. This Play was well accepted, and accounted one of the beft ftie writ. Lucky Chance, or the Alderman s Bargain, C. 4 to. Gay mans enjoying Lady Fulban\_, and taking her for the Devil, taken from Mr .Alexander Ktckfhaw^nd Lady Aritina, in the Lady of Pleafure, written by Shirley, 4to. Rover, or The Bani/h'd Cavaliers, two Parts, C. 4 to. Taken from Tho. Killegrews Don Thomafo, or The Wanderer, fol. Round Heads, or The good Old Caufe,C.^to. A Play of John Tate- ham\ call'd, The Rump, altered, 4to. Sir Patient Fancy, C. qto. Part of this Play taken from Richard Broom's Damoyfelle, 8vo. and Le Malade Imaginaire. Tom io Known AUTHORS. B. Town Fop, or Sir Timothy Tawdry, C. 4to. A great part of this Play borrowed from a PJay, call'd, The Miferies of Forced Marriage, written by George Wilk'ws, 4 to. Widow Ranter, or The Hijhry of Bacon in Virginia, F. 4This Play was Publi filed after her Death by G. J. Plot from the known Story of CaJJw. ToungKing, or, The Miftake : A Tragi-Comedy y 4to. 1683. This Play is Dedicated to a particular Friend of hers, under the name of Pbilajler. The Defign is borrowed from Calpranedes Cleopatra. See theHiftory of Alcamenes and Menalippa Part 8th. Tounger Brother, or The Amorous Jilt,C.\to. This Play was Pub- lifhed after her Death (with her Life added) the Story was of her own Knowledge, and written above ten years before fhe dyed, it was much efteemed by her, and it mull be owned, in fpight of the ill fuccefs it met with, that there is a great deal of Wit at leaft in the beginning of it, the firft two Acts being very well received but the tedious Scenes in Blank Verfe, betwixt Mirtilla and Prince BredericJ^, loft the Diverfion they would have given in another more eafie Drefs. Taken from a true Story of the Brother of Coll .Henry Martin, and a Lady that muftbe namelefs. See the Novel call'd Hatige. Thefe Plays were all written between the Years 1670. and 16$.0, Dawhridgcourt Belchzer. TH-IS Gentleman writ one Interlude in the time ofKmgJamesI, whilfl: he lived at Vtrcicht, in the United Provinces, which he entituled, Hans Beer-pot, his Invifible Comedy of See me , and See me not, Int. ^to. 1618. Afted by an honefl Company of Health-Drin¬ kers, lays the Title. He was an Englifh Man, and in his Epi- ftle calls it neither Comedy nor Tragedy, wanting both number of Speakers, and Parts or Afts it fhould have, it confifling of three Arts only. Richard Bernard. A Gentleman that Liv'd in Lincolnjlnre, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and gave us then a Tranflationof Terrences Come¬ dies, in a Language and Stile fuitable to the time he Liv'd in. Pub. Terentim was a Carthaginian born, and brought a Slave to Rome in his Youth, there well Educated by his Patron Terent. Seneca,and by him made Free for his Wit, and left behind him fix Comedies Known AUTHORS. B. n {yixS) Andrea, Adelphi, Eunuchw, Heutontimorumenos. Jfecyra and Phormio,the Fourth Edition in 4to. 1614. The four firft of thefe Co¬ medies are borrowed from Menander. The two laft taken from Apol- lodorus. He generally brought two of Menanders into one of his. He was thought to have the help of Ldim and Pub. Scipio, in his Writings which he thought an Honour, not Difgrace. Mrs. Frances Boothby. WHether this Authorefs be yet Living, I know not, ftie Liv'd, and Writ in the time of King Charles II. a Play caU'ck, Marcelia, or The Treacherous Friend, T. C. 4to. 1670. Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, A Noble Man of the Kingdom of Ireland, eminent both in Arts and Arms, as a Poet and as a Patron 3 he dyed Ottob. 1679. and has Publifhed thefe following Plays, Blacl^ Prince : f or theStory confult Walfinghami Hijl. Angl. Wi- gornenfis Chronicon. Polid> Virgilii. Florentit Monarch. Froijjard Chron. de France, fa cTAngleterre, Enghfh Chronicles in Reign of Edvo. III. Tryphon : Confult the firft Book of Maccabes, Jofephw, lib. 15. Appian de Bellis Synacis, &c. Henry V. See the Englifh Chronicles in the Reign of that King, and the Reign of King Charles VI. in the French Chronicles, as Jean Juvenal des Vrfins, Le Htft. de Charles VI. Me^eray, &c. Muflapha : Confult for the Plot Thuanus , lib. 12. Tho. Ar- twla continuacon de le Hifl. des Tourcs, and Knowless Turkifli Hill. Thefe four inFolio j the two firft Publifhed 1672. the other two in 1677. Guzman, A Comedy Afted at the Theatre Royal. 1693. The Plot of this Play is taken from a Romance of that Name. Her id the Great, a Tragedy, Printed 1594. I do not find that this Play was ever Atted. The Story of this Prince you will find in Jofephws, and his Life in Caujjins Holy Court. Thefe two Plays are bound up with the reft of his Plays, in fol. and tho' the Title Page tells us that the firft was Afted, yet there is no Drammatk Perfon£ before it. He alfo writ one other Play, cali'd, Master Anthony, 4to. 16go. The Prologue to this, is the fame of that to one of Durfef s Plays, cali'd, The Fool turnd Critickj i i Samuel Known AUTHORS. B. Samuel Brandon. HE Liv'd in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and writ this Play towards the latter part of her time, call'd, The Virtuom OZlavia, T. C. 8m 1598. and tho'this Play was never Afted, yet the Author had a very good Opinion of it and his Epiflies Printed with it, Compos'd in imitation of Ovid's. Plot from Plutarch's Life of M. Antony. See alfo the Life of Au- guflui in Suetonius. Dion. CaJJiw, &c. Nicholas Breton. HE has Writ and Publifhed nothing more then this one Inter¬ lude,calFd, The old MansLejfon, and Young Mans Love. Inter I. ^to. a very old Piece. Anthony Brewer. AN Author in the'Reign of King Charles I. Publifhed thefe two Plays following (viz.) The Country Girl, C. qto. 1547. This Play was Reviv'd jufl thirty years after its firft Publifhing, by one Leonard, who gave it a new Title, calling it, Country Innocence, or the Chamber-maid turrid Quaker. 4to. 1677. Love-fid'1 King, T. C. 4to. 16$}. This Play was alfo Reviv'd, and Afted at the King's Houfe, under the Title of The Perjured Nun, 4to. 1680. See Speed, Polyd. Virgijl, Gu. Malmsb. Ingulfw, Higden, DuChefne, 0. 1657. Ofmond the Great Turlor, The Noble Servant, Tragedy, 8vo. 1657. (The Aftion of this Play is, the taking of Conftantinople, in the Year 1453. See Knolles's Turriff) Hift. in the Life of Maho¬ met II. Bandello s Novels, Tom. 1. Hi ft. 2. Lipfti Monita, lib. 2. Cap. 9. Art us le Contin. de /' Hift. des Tuxes. Lib. 11. This Play, with the two preceding, are Printed together in Svo. 1657. Paftienate Lover, in "Two Parts, T.C. 8vo. 16$$. This Play was publiflied by Mr. Alex. Gough, it having been before twice pre- fented before the King and Queen's Ma jetties at Somerfet- Houfe. Heraclim, Emperor of theEaft, Trag. 4to. 1664. This tranfla- ted from the French of Monfieur Cone lie, was defigned by the Tranflator for the Stage, but never Atted. See Zonar, Baronius^c, James Carlile. HE was born, as I'm informed, in Lancafhire, he fir ft appear'd in the World as a Player, and gave no fmall Promifes of ma¬ king confiderable Progrefs in that way; he left the Stage while he was yet young, and took to the Wars got no little Reputation in the Irifb Expeditions under his Prefent Majefty, and with his Bro¬ ther, loft his Life in the Bed of Honour. He gave us a Play called, The' 16 Known AUTHORS. B. The Fortune Hunters ; or, Two Fools well met. Com. 4 to. This was" Afted with Applaufe,as it has been lately revived by the Patentees Company. Richard Carpenter. THIS Author lived in the latter end of King James 1. and the beginning of King Charles I. Publifh'd one Play called, The Pragmatical Jefuitnew Leaven d^to. A Play tends to Morality and Vertue fo 'tis doubted whether the Author was not a Divine, there being Three Sermons Publifh'd under the fame Name, in the latter end of the Reign of King James I. George Cartrvright. OF this Gentleman I can only lay, that he liv'd at Fulham, and that he has writ a Play called, 1 Herokl^Loveor, The Infanta of Spain, a Tragedy, dedicated to KingCharles II. and Printed, London, 1661. 8vo. William Carlwright 1" H E Name of our Author's Father and Place of Nativity, are * differently Related by Mr. Wood, (a) the late Antiquarian in his Antiquit.Oxon. and (b) Mr. Loyd in his Memoirs,the firft making him (HoKcefterJhire, and the latter Oxofordflnre • but all agree he was brought up a King's Schollar at Eaton, under Dr.Olbafton, andchofe Student of Chrift-Cimch-Colledge in Oxon, where he paffed thro' his Degrees of Batchelor and Mafter of Arts: The Houfe made choice of him for Prottor, and was admitted by the Univerfity with Mr. Wake of Magdalen Colledge in the Year 1643. in the Winter that Year he Dy'd of a Malignant Fever, and lies Buried in the South Ijle of that Church. He was belov'd by the King and Queen, and lamented by all his Acquaintance and Friends. He was expert in the Latin, Greek, French, and Italian Tongues; was extream modeft, as wellashandfome ; and admired, not only by his Acquaintance but Strangers. Ben. Johnfon among the reft writ inhisPraife; and Bifhop Fell gives him the higheft, if not'Hyper¬ bolical Praife, in faying, He was the utmojl that Man could come to. He writ four Plays, Lady Errant, a Tragi-Comedy, 8vo. i6$y. This was efteemed by many about that time a good Play. (a) Antiquit.Oxon.p. 274. (b) Lloyd's Memoirs, £.422. Ordinary, I Known AUTHORS. C 17* - Ordinary, a Comedy 8vo. 1657. Part of the firft Aft is infert cd in a Book call'd, Wits Interpreter, as a Love Dialogue, unde theTitle of the Old Widow, p. 81. Royal Slave, a Tragi-Comedy, 8 vo. i6$i. Thi6 Play was firfl prefented to the King and Queen, by the Students of Chrift-Church Colledge, Oxon, Dr. Busby, late Schoolmafter of Wejlminjler, aft- ing a part therein •, and afterwards at Hampton Court,to both Their Majefties, by the Players, at the Queens Command •, and tho' the Poet gave equal Inftruftions, the Students carryed the Prize. Seige, or Loves Convert, a Tragi-Comedy, 8vo. i<5$ r. Occafion in Plutarch's Life of Cymon, and part from Boccaces Novels, Day 9th. Nov. ijl. Thefe Rays are Printed together with his Poems in 8vo. where you may find moft of the Wits in the Univerfity appear with Copies of Verfes, to fliew the great Efleem they had for him. Our Author has alfo extant other Pieces, via Sermon Print¬ ed 15 $ 2. a Latin Book entituled, Dies in Mnfe Novemb. maxim*, mtabiles Coronam, foe. 1671. Robert Chamberlain. THIS Anthor Liv'd in the time of King Charles I. and Writ a Play call'd, The SwaggeringVamfel, a Comedy $to. 1640. Whether ever this Play was Afted I cannot learn, nether can I fay it deferved Afting. William Chamberlain. ADoftor of Phyfick who Lived and Dyed in Shaftsbury in T)or- /etflnre, was an old Cavalier, and had received feveral Marks of his venturing in thofe Wars. He gave us a Teftimony pf his Poetick Capacity in an Heroick Poem, entituled Pharonida, 8vo. 1659. and fince has appeared in Profe, with the Title of Eromc- ra, or The Noble Stranger, a Novel, 1683. He writ but one Play Printed, call'd, Loves Viflory, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 16$2. This has appeared fince under a new Title and Afted, call'd, The Wits led by the Nofe, or A Poet's Revenge, 4^0.1678. C George 28 1 Known- AUTHOR S. G George Chapman. HIS Poet Flourifhed in the latter part of the Reign of Queen 1 Elizabeth and King James L He was received among the for- moft of the Poetick Writers of that Age, for his Tranflations, as well as Original Writings. He joyn'd with Ben. Johnftn and Mar- jlfrn, in the Compofing one Play call'd, Eaflward Hoe. He alfo Tranflated all Homer, Hefiod, and Muf&us, which Works were efteemed well done in that Infancy of Tranflation: His Plays which follow, are 18 in Number. All Fools, a Comedy, 4.to. 1605. Then accounted a good Play; it is Built on Terence's Heautontimorumenos or Self-Denyer, and was Afted before King James I. Alphonfus Emperor of Germany, a Tragedy tfo. 1554. Plot from Chron. de Rebut Germanics, fee alfo Reynolds on the Paffions, Wan- hys Hift of Man, Mariana de Reb. Hill. lib. 13. c. 10. Hift. Gene• rale d'Efpagne, lib. 12. Blind Beggar of Alexandria, a Comedy, 4to. 1 $98. Afted by the , Earl of Nottingham, then Lord High Admiral his Servants ; this Play is neither divided into Afts nor Scenes. Bujjy d'Amboife, a Tragedy 4to. This hath been prefented for¬ merly at St.Pa.uls, andfmce the Reftauration by tlje Kings Servants, with good Applaufe. Plot from the French Chron. Hen. III. Thu- anas, Defer res, & RoJJets Hijl. Trag. de notre temps, (under the names of Lyfis and Silvie) Hi ft. 17. p. 363. Bujfy d*Amboife hti Revenge, a Tragedy, 4to. 161%. This Play met not with that Efteem as the former, nor is it founded on fo great Truth as the other. Confpiracy and Tragedy of Charles Du^e of Byron, Mar/lial of France, two Plays 4to. 1608. For the Plot which is founded oil Hiftory, fee Davilas Hift. France, Mexeray and other French Chron. Snthe timeof H. IVthof France. C&far and Pompey, a Tragedy, 4to. 1631. Divers are the Au¬ thors that have treated on this Story, as Lucan in his Pharfali/t, Svetonius in the Life of Julius C&far, Plutarch, Vill. Pater culm, Florw, Dion, &c. Gentleman VJher, a Comedy '4to. t6c6. A Play which de- ferves no great Commendation, and I queftion whether ever 'twas A fted. ^ Humorous days Mirth, a Comedy, 4to. 1599. A- Play of indif¬ ferent Repute, but entituled, A Pleafant Comedy, as it has been fundry times Publickly Afted by the Right Honourable the Earl of Wottinghaifr, Lord High Admiral's Servants. Mtfqut Known AUTHORS. C 19 Mafqueof the Middle Temple and Lincolns'Inn, 4 to. 1614. This was prefented at Court before the King, at the Celebrati¬ on of the Nuptials between the Pal/grave and the Princds Eliza¬ beth, Mr. Inigo Jones was the Ingineer to order the Machines and Decoration of the Scenes. May-Day, a Comedy 4to. 1611. Divers times Afted with good Applaufe. Monfieur £Olive, a Comedy, ^to. 1606. This Play was often gifted by her Majefty's Children with good Succefs. Revenge for Honour, a Tragedy, 4to. 16" $4. When the Nur- fery Afted in Barbican, fince the Reftauration they fometimes made ufe of this Play. Temple, a Mafque, -4*0. As I Conjefture, may be the fame with that before of the Middle Temple,and Lincoln*-Inn-, Mr. Lang- bain, nor any other that I could ever learn, having feen any of this Title. Two Wife Men, and all the rejl Fools, 4to. 1619. Mr. Langbains former Remark on this Play was, that it exceeded in the Number of Afts any Play of what Language whatever. But if he had feen the Spanijh Baud, either in the Original, or the Folio Edition in Englijh, he might have found one with three times as many Afts; the Prologue and Epilogue of this Play are both writ in Profe, as was fometimes ufed in thofe times : Mr. Chapman's Name not be¬ ing to the Title of this Play, it's a queftion whether it be really kis, tho' former Catalogues make itfo. Widows Tears, a Comedy, 4^0. 161,2. Plot from Petroni- ut Arbiter. See alfo the Ephefian Matron, Printed in 8w. 1668. Eajtrvard Hoe, a Comedy, 4to. 160$. This was his but in part, Ben Johnfon and Marfton having joyned with him in it 'twas thought worth the reviving by Mr. Tate, our prefent Poet Laureat, who gives it the Title of Cuckolds-Haven. Colley Cibber. AN Author now Living, he is of Foreign Extraftion, his Fa¬ ther being a Native of Holftein, and a very skilful Statuary, I cannot underftand that his Education ever reached either of the Univerfities •, he having been early by his Fancy led to the Stage, tho' it was not till the divifion of the Houfes that he made any confiderable Figure there, and then he at once exerted both the Poet and the Player, in his firft Play call'd, Loves laft Shift, and in the part of Sir Novelty fajJnon, which he played hirnfelf, and fa encreafed both his Profit and his Reputation; he has already Pub- lirtied two Plays of fomething a different Character, of which in their Order, C 2 Love's 2© Known AUTHORS. C Loves lajl Shift, or The Fool in Fafbioh, a Comedy, Afted at the Theatre Royal by his Majefty's Servants. London, Printed iG$6. qto. And Dedicated to Richard Norton of Southvcick., Efq. In the Epiftle our Author informs us that the ufiial Enmity at the Succefs of an unknown Author, had produced fome Surmifes that this Play was not his own; but he affures his Patron, that he fliould think he affronted him, if he fhould dedicate a Play to him that he could not entirely call his own; no part of this, either of the Plot or the Expreffion being borrowed from either the Dead or the Living. He indeed took a very rational Way to that Sue* eefs, which his Epiftle lets us know this Performance of his met with, by making ufe of the extenfive Acquaintance of Mr. Southern. For that Author that will ftand on the bare Merit of his Play, may fatisfie himfelf in its Juftnefs and Perfection, but will feldom or never reap that Profit from his Labours, that will anfwer either his Hopes or his Merit. Being fenfible of this, I fuppofe Mr. Cibber took care to engage the Intereft of a great many, by obliging their Vanity, in fubmitting his Play to their Perufal and Cenfure •, for there is no Complement fo prevailing with Mankind, as that which is made to their Wit. Mr. Cibber has taken Care to avoid the Guilt of an unconfeffed Theft, in avowing his Innocence, only fo far as he could remem¬ ber. The Plot indeed feems to be new, as it is furprifing and ad¬ mirable but fome of the Criticks will have it founded on a very great improbability, vi%. on Lovelefs's not knowing his Wife: Tho' it may be urged in defence of it, That young Worthy's Con¬ firmation of her Uncle's former Account of her Death might very much contribute to his being impos'd on. But were this ineffici¬ ent, yet the Beauty of the Incident, and the excellent Moral that flows from it, abundantly outweigh the Fault. The Charafters of Sir Novelty, Snap, NarciJJa, and the Elder Worthy, feem to be good Copies of Sir Foiling, Jerry in Love for Love, Setter in the OU Batchelor, &c. Of Mel ant ha in Marriage Alamode, &c. and Vain- love in the Old Batchelor. Womans Wit, or The Lady in Fafhion, a Comedy afted at the The¬ atre Royal by his Majefty's Servants, qto. 1697. This Play is much fliort of the former in the Eafinefs of Wit and Style, as in the Artful working up of the Plot The Chara¬ cters of Ra\eifl), Father and Son, with the Plot of their Walk, is much borrowed from the Fortune Hunters , from Otway's Dare De¬ vil.• from Sir Thomas Revel and his Son in Greenvcich-Parl^e • and indeed among the other Chaiafters there is not mwch new. Sir I Known AUTHORS. C 21 Sir Aft on Cockain, 'THIS worthy Knight lived (about the Refloration) at his Seat at Afibourn, a Market Town in Derbyshire, his Family Ancient, pretending an Alliance with * William the Firfl: He had Edu¬ cation in Trinity College in Cambridge, made the Tour of France and Italy in his Five and Twentieth Year, finifhing it in the Year 16$2. f Poetry being his darling Study. Among other Pieces, he has left us Three Plays and a Mafque, of which in their Order. Mafque, prefented at Berthie in Derbyfbire, 1639. before the then Earl of Cbefterfield, on a Twelfth-Night, his Two Sons atting Parts in the fame. Objlinate Lady, a Comedy, 8vo. i5$8. This Play feems a meer Imitation of Afajjengers Very Woman. Ovid's Tragedy, 8vo. 166 p. Some part taken from his Elegiest and part from II Atheijlo Fulminato, an Italian Play. Trappolin fuppofed a Prince, a Tragy-Comedy, 8vo. 16$2. Plot from Trapolen credulo Principe, which he owns to have feen afted at Venice. It has been revived by Mr. Tate, and afted in the Year 1685. by the Dukes Servants in Vorfet Garden. Therjites, and Tyranical Government, which may well be fuppo¬ fed to be none of his, tho' placed to him by Winjianly and Phi¬ lips,you may find it in their Alphabet among the Anonymous Plays, Thefe are all printed with his Poems, Epigrams, tfyc. in $vo, William Congreve, A Gentleman now living, who derives himfelf from an Ancient Family in Staffordfhire of that Name. His Politer Knowledge he owes to Dublin Colledge, from whence being returned to Eng¬ land, his firfl Applications were to the Law. But Mr. Congreve was of too delicate a Tafte, had a Wit of too fine a turn, to be long pleas'd with that crabbed, unpalatable Study 5 in which the labor rious dull plodding Fellow, generally excells the more fprightly and vivacious Wit ; for the Law is fomething like Preferment at Court, won by A (fu,ranee and Affiduity -, this concurring with his Na¬ tural Inclinations to Poetry, diverted him from the Bar to the de¬ clining Stage, which then flood in need of fuch a Support -, and from whence the Town juftly receiv'd him as Rome's other Hope. Rochfoncault truly obferves, that Merit alone will never makea ? CochinsEpigr, lib. 1. Epig.j. + See his Fcemsp.?$. find 118. C 5 fferae, 32 Kmmm AUTHORS. € Heroe, without the friendly AfTiftanceof Fortune; andtheffcfort Mr. Congreve muft be faid to be as much oblig'd to her for his Sue- cefs, as to Nature fqr his Wit, which truly deferv'd it, and of which all thofe that read his Plays, mufl allow him a more than ordinary Share. And indeed he took the moft certain way to make fure of Fortune, by the Intimacy he contracted with the moft aftive part^of the eftablifh'd and received Wits and Poets of the Age, before he ventur'd his Reputation to the Publick* For as a I celebrated French Writer has obferv'd, an Author fhould never expedt to raife his Fame in the World, from an unknown State, by the Single Force of his own Genius, and without the Help and Concurrence of the Men of Wit, that have an Influence over the Opinion of the World in things of that Nature. But then on the other fide, it mufl be confefs'd,that his Merit was certainly of more than ordinary Power, to oblige them to forget their habitual III- Nature -y and criminal Emulation or Jealoufy (to give it no worfe Name) of all thofe, whom they have any Caufe to fear, will once prove any confiderable Rivals in their Fickle Miftrefs, Fame. Mr. Congreve has already given us Four Plays, of whieh in their Al« phabetical Order. The Double Dealer, a Comedy, ACted at the Theatre Royal by their Ma jetties Servants, 1694. 4 to. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles Montague, Efq. one of the Lords of the Trea- fury. This Play not meeting with that Succefs as was expeCted, the Author, as Poets are generally apt to do, engages a little too violently in a Defence of his Comedy. The Character of Masl^ well I take to be an Image of Vernifh in The Plain Dealer. Love for Love, a Comedy, A died at the Theatre in Little Lin~ colns-lm-Fields, by his Majefty's Servants, 1695. 4to. and Dedi¬ cated to the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Dorfet and Middle- fex. This Play, tho1 a very good Comedy in it felf, had this Ad¬ vantage, that it was Atted at the Opening of the New Houfe,when the Town was fo prepoffefs'd in Favour of the very ACtors, that before a Word was fpoke, each Aftor was Clapt for a confiderable Time. And yet all this got it not more Applaufe than it really de¬ ferv'd : For there is abundance of Wit in it, and a great deal of diverting Humour. The Characters are jiaftly diftinguifh'd, and the Manners well marked. Yet in the Plot he has not given himfelf the Pains of avoiding that fo often repeated Improbability of Marry¬ ing in Mafques and Difguifes, which Mr.Tattle, nor Mrs. Frail had Senfe enough to avoid, if we may judge by the reft of their Cha¬ racters ; yet it muft be own'd, that he has much better prepar'd this Incident to gain it,at leaft fome fhew of Probability,than in the Old Batchelorpx than I have generally met with in other Plays. I leave the nicer Criticks to decide whether the unravelling of the Plot, the Cojiduft of Angelica in it, be extreamly juft or no: I fhalj Known AUTHORS. G 23 fhall only fay it pleas'd, and that is a confiderablc Defence, what, ever fome may think to the contrary. The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy* Afted at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majefty's Servants, and Dedicated to her Royal Highnefs the Princefs ANN of Denmark 1697. 4(9 This Play had the greateft: Succefs, not only of all Mr. Congreve\' but indeed of all the Plays that ever I can remember on the Eng- li/h Stage, excepting none of the incomparable Otway's and if what Dr. Blackmore fays of it be true, it deferved even greater than it met with ; for the learned Doftor in the Seventh Page of his Preface to King Arthur, fays thus: ' Since the writing of this, I have feen a Tragedy, called, e The Mourning Bride, which I think my felf obliged to take No- c tice of in this Place. This Poem has receiv'd, and, in my Opi- c nion, very juftly, univerfal Applaufe; being look'd on as the e moll perfeft Tragedy that has been wrote in this Age. The Fa* 1 ble, as far as I can judge at firft fight, is a very Artful and Ma- 1 fterly Contrivance; the Characters are well chofen, and well de- * lineated; that of Zara is admirable. The Paflions are well e touch'd, and skilfully wrought up. The Ditlion Proper, Clear, * Beautiful, Noble, and Diverfified agreeably to the Variety of the 4 Sub;eft. Vice, as it ought to be, is punifh'd ; and opprefs'd In- 4 nocence at la ft rewarded. Nature appears very happily imitated c excepting one or two doubtful Inftances, thro' the whole Piece ; c in which there are no immodeft Images, or ExprefTtons; no e wild, unnatural Rants, but fome few Exceptions being allow'd, 1 all things are Chart, Juft, and Decent. This Tragedy, as I faid * before, has mightily Obtain d, and that without the unnatural, * and fooli/h Mixture of Farce and Buffoon'ry; without fo much * as a Song or a Dance to make it more agreeable. By this it ap- ' pears, that as a fufficient Genius can recommend it felf, and fur- ( nifh out abundant Matter of Pleafure and Admiration, without ' the paultry Helps above named : So likevvife, that the Taft of the t Nation is not fo far deprav'd, but that a Regular and Chaft Play, * will not only be forgiven, but highly applauded. Thus far the Learned Doftor, of whom I will not fay, as the Plain Dealer fays of my Lord Plaufible, That rather than not Flat¬ ter, he will Flatter the Poets of the Age, &c. Yet I muft needs fay, fo very great a Commendation, will make fome of the Cenfo- rious Criticks imagine what it was that oblig'd him to take fuch particular Notice of this Play which, tho' I fhould be never fo willing to allow a Place in .the firft Form, yet I can never prefer it to the All for Love of Mr. Dry den, The Orphan, and Venice Prefervd /""~~ of Mr. Otrvay, or the Lucim Junius Brutus of Mr. Lee, either ill true Art in the Contrivance and Conduft of the Plot; or the Choice and Delineation of the Charafters for the true End of Tra* c 4 24 Known AUTHORS. G gedy, Pitty and Temr ; or the true and natural Movement of the Pa{fion6, in which Particular, none of the Ancients (I was going to fay equal'd, but I will boldly fay) furpafs'd our Englifh dead Bards in thofe Plays, and our living Poet in this of his that I have mention'd. Or the DiSion, either in regard to its Propriety, Clear- tiefiy Beauty, Noblenefs, or Variety. Let any impartial Judge read but All for Love, and tell me if there is or can be a Style more Pure, or more Sublime, more adapted to the Subjeft in all its Parts: And I believe, notwithftanding all that fome Gentlemen have urg'd againft the Language in Otwaf s Plays, it feldom wants any of thofe Qualities that are neceflary to the Perfeftion of the Piece he has undertaken; he has feldom given us any Perfons of Kings or Prin- pes, and if his Stile fwell not fo much in the Mouths of thofe of a Lower Degree, whom he has chofen, it was becaufe he had too much regard to the Nature of the Perfon he introduces. And in Lee (with the Critickj permiffion let me fpeak it) you find always fomething Wildly Noble, and Irregularly Great; and I am un¬ willing, with fome, to think his Stile puffieor tumid; I'm fure in his Play of Lucim Junius Brutus he is generally Juft, both in his Thoughts and his Expreflions; and it is rather for want of a true Tafte of him, than his want of Merit, that he is condemn'd in that Play , I mean, if there be any that do not exempt that from the Faults of his other Plays. I urge not this as any Reflection on Mr.Congreve'i Performance, for which I have all the juft Value the Merit of the Play commands; but to do Juft ice to his great PredecefTors on the Stage, at the de- preffing whofe Praife, the Doftor, both in this and his former Pre¬ face , feems rather to aim, than at the raifing that of Mr. Can- greve. No, had I a mind to exert the CriticI might, like ma¬ ny other of that Denomination, urge thofe Defefts that either the Malice, or too nice Palate of others have defcover'd in the Play it felf. But I think 'tis a very ungenerous Office (and not to be ex- cus'd by any thing but fome extraordinary Provocation) to difleft the Works of a Man of Mr. Congreve's undoubted Merit, when he has done his Endeavour to pleafe the Town, and fonotorioufly obtain'd his End ; and when the Faults that may perhaps be found in 'em, are of a Nature that makes them very difputable, and in which both his PredecefTors and Contemporaries have offended; and I fuppofe he does not pretend to infallibility in Poetry. But tho' I purpofely omit all Critical Reflexions, yet the Duty of this Undertaking, and the Foundation I build on, obliges me to examine what he may have borrowed from others; which indeed is not much, tho' the Incident of the Tomb, feems to be taken from the Meeting of Artabav and Eliqt, at the Tombe of Tyridates, in the Romance of Cleopatra. And Zara has many Features re¬ ferring i^mahal in Aurwge Zebs> and Alpiepa in the Indian Known AUTHORS. C 35 Emferor I know fome will have the whole Play a kind of a Copy t>f that-, but I confefs I cannot difcover likenefs enough to juftify their Opinion: unlefs ft be Zaras coming to the Prifon to Ofmnt as Almeria does to Corte^. I believe our Poet had the Baja^et of Racine in view, when he formed his Defign, at leaft there is as much Ground for this as the former Opinion. Pere^ refenting the Blow the King gave him, is like an Incident in Cafar Borgia; but the Spaniard's, Revenge is more generous, and lefs cruel than that of the Italian. Thus much for the Mourning Bride, of which, if I may be al- low'd to fpeak my impartial Senfe, I muft needs fay, that in fpite of its Excellence, it difcovers Mr. Congreve"s Geniw more inclin'd and turn'd to Comedy, than Tragedy, tho' he has gain'd an un¬ common Praife for both ; however, it being his firft Poem of that Kind, itpromifes more perfeft Produfts hereafter j and for which all Lovers of Poetry long with Impatience. Old Batchelor, a Comedy, Afted it the Theatre Royal by their Majefties Servants, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Clifford, of Lanesborough, 1693. 4to. This Comedy was Afted with fo general an Applaufe, that it gave both Fame and For¬ tune to our Author *, at once made him known to the Town, and to an Honourable Mec&nas^ who, to the Satisfaction of all Lo¬ vers of Learning, Wit, and Poetry, has ever fince prov'd a gene¬ rous Friend to our Poet. The Old Batchelor was ufher'd into the World with feveral Copies of Verfes of his Friends, and which the Merit of the Play abundantly jnftifies: For there's a genteel and fprightly Wit in the Dialogue, where it ought to be } and the humorous Charafters are generally within the Compafs of Nature, which can fcarce be truly faid of thofe of feveral Poets,who have met with Succefs enough on the Stage. Bluff feems an Imitation of the Mites Gloriofiu of Plautiu •, of Bounce in Greenwich Parkj, and Hac- kum in the Squire of Alfatia, &c. The Incident of Sir Jofepb Wit toll's Marrying Sylvia, and Captain Bluff, Lucy, in Mafques, has been too often an Incident on the Stage, fince I'm confident it was fcarce ever done in reality. Some other Charafters are not entire¬ ly new, but that is very excufable in a Young Poet, efpecially in a Play, which I have been aflur'd was writ, when our Author was but Nineteen Years Old, and in nothing alter'd, but in the Length, which being confider'd, I believe few Men that have writ, can fhew one half fo good at fo unripe an Age. HIS <3entleman, only known to me by a fingl6 Play, never Afted,' but Printed, (vk-) Edward Cooh^^ Efq. Love's z6 Known AUTHORS. C Loves Triumph, ox The Royal Union, a Tragi-Comedy, 4.to, 16"]%* Plot from Caffandray Romance, Part 5. Book_ 4. John Cook. "THIS Author has but one Play in Print, called, Greens Tn Quoque, a Comedy, 4 to. Publifh'd with a Preface by Tho.Heymod,who fays in his * Epiflle,That it part the Stage with gc- neral Applaufe,and that the Titlehad its Name in regard that excel¬ lent Commedian, Thomas Green, Afted the chief Part in it, whofe general Repartee to all Complements was, Tu Qusque-j and gives him this Character, That there was not an Aftor of his Nature in his time, of better Ability in Performance of what he undertook, more applauded by the Audience, of greater Grace at the Court, or of more general Love in the City. The Printed Copy is not di¬ vided into Afts, but has fince King Charles tlie Second's Reftaura- tion, been Revived and Afted with good Appjaufe. John Corey. * A Gentleman that has fet together a Play, called: The Generous Enemies, or The Ridiculous Lovers, a Comedy, Afted at the Theatre Royal,4fo.1672.This Play is patch'd up out of four feveral Poets: The chief Defign is borrowed from Quinault'sLa Genereufe Ingratitude 5 that of the Ridiculous Lovers from Corneilles V. Bertram de Cigarral, which is alfo founded on the Spanijh Play, Entre bobos anda el juego :,Bertrans Tefty Humour is partly borrowed from. Randolph's Mufes Lool>ing-Glafs,Afi 2.Scene i.and Afl.%. Scene 3, and 4, and the Quarrel betwixt him and Robatq, AZl 5. wholly flollen from Love's Pilgrimage, AZl 2. Scene 1. Aft Scene 3. Charles Cotten, Efq. A Gentlemen of a good Family in Stafford/hire, who has written many Originals befides Tranflations, but nothing with more Succefs than his Burlefque on Virgil, in Imitation of the French Scarron-, among the reft, he trandated one of'Cornei lie's Plays, called, Hon ace, T. j.to. 1671. This Play has Been trandated by Two other Hands, Sir William Lower, and Mrs. Katharine Phillips; but * HeywoodV Epijlle to the Reader* this Known AUTHORS. C a7 this has been accounted equal to Madam FAz7/zpjV Tranflation, and far to exceed that Verfion of Six William Louver. For the Plot con- fult Livii Hifi. Lib. i. L. Florw, Lib. i. C. 3. Cajjiodorw, Dionyfwt HallicarnafftM, &c. This Author has publifh'd (befides this Play) divers other Pieces; as a Volume of Poems on feveral Occafions, 8vo. 1689. The Com* pleat Angler, being a Second Part of that Book on the fame Subjeft written by Mr. Jfaac Walton, 8vo. 1676. in which Book are excel¬ lent Inftruftions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream. The Wonder of the Peal^, a Poem, 8vo. i6ii. Scarm¬ ies, or Virgil Travejlie, a Mock Poem on the 1 ft and 4th Books of Virgil's JEneti, 8vo. 1578. And one more attributed to him, tho' his Name not thereto, called, The Scoffer Scoft 5 which are feveral of Lucians Dialogues put into Burlefque Yerfe, Printed 8 vo. 1675. Abraham Cowley. THIS eminent Author was Born in London, i<5i 8. at Ten Years Old(whiIft he was aWeftminJlerScholhr^he writ theTragicalStory of Pyramus and Thisbe\at Twelve that of Conflantia and Fhiletut.By Thirteen he had publiflied feveral Poetical Pieces. From a Boy he was very Studious, and his Chance lighting on Spencer's Fairy Queen, rous'd his Inclinations to Poetry, which never forfook him till he Died. Whoever would read a jufl Account of his Life, will And it admirably writ by the prefent Bifhop of Rochejler. He' Died of a Stoppage in his Breaft and Throat, having Iain 111 a Fortnight; and was Buried the 30th of Auguft, 1667. in Weftminfer-Abbey, next Chaucer, and near Spencer and Drayton, with a neat Marble Monument erefted (as the Infcription informs us) to him, by the late Duke of Buckingham. He has publifh'd Three Englijf) Plays, of which in their Order. Cutter of Coleman'Street, a Comedy, 4 to. 1663. This Play was Reprefented at the Duke's Theatre in Salisbury-Court, with good Applaufe j yet met with Oppofition by fome few, who at that time envied the Author for his Loyalty to his Prince, but was afterwards Atted with univerfal Applaufe, it being a revis'd Comedy, and much alter'd and enlarg'd from that Mr. Cowly had about Ten Years before haftily drawn up , under the Name of the Guardian, a Comedy, 4to. 15 50. Afted feveral times privately during the Prohibition of the Stage ; as alfo at Cambridge before Prince Charles, and after the Reftauration publickly Afted at Dub- fin with good Applaufe, Love's 28 Known AUTHORS. C Love's Riddle, a Paftoral Comedy, 4to. 1633. This Play was written in the Author's Youth, whilft a King's Schollar at Wejl- mwjterfirfl printed with his Poetical Blojjoms ^ and fincc that,in the Second Volume of his Works. In any of his Plays he cannot be taxed with borrowing from any other. The Works of this admirable Author are eminent enough to the Ingenious, fo needlefs to be here charafterizd. He Jeft Two Vo¬ lumes in Folio, Verfeand Profe, alfo a Volume in tvo. Entituled, Foemata. Latina. It is a great Pity he liv'd not to finifh that in¬ comparable Epick Poem of Davideif, being only Four Books of the Troubles of David; which he defign'd to extend in all, to Twelve. For his Life and Works I refer you further, to Dr. Sprat, Bifliop of Rochejlefi Account thereof. *TH IS Author was a celebrated Comedian in King Charles the Firft's time : On the Suppreftton of the Stage he made feve- ral Drolls, and, with his Companions, Afted them by ftealth, both in London and the Country Towns: He Afted the chief Parts him- felf, and fo very naturally, that at Oxon he gain'd great Applaufe. He publifli'd one Interlude, called, Aft&on and Diana, Interl. 4.to. The Plot from Ovid's Metamorph. This, with fome Drolls of his, may be found a fecond time printed 16$6. in 4.to. the firft Edition being printed for the Author's own life, and in the Year 1673. they were again printed, with other Drolls cojlefted by Kirlqnanjm&a the Title of Sport upon Spqrty 8vo. A Gentleman yet living, whofe Father having ventured mo ft of his Eftate (which was considerable) in a Foreign Plantation, that was afterwards taken by the French, and all King Charles % Reign neglefted, he took, by the Encouragement of the late famous Lord Rochefier, to Dramatick Writing, and has perform'd very well both in Tragedy and Comedy j tho', with Mr. Langbain, I look on Comedy to be his Talent; he has given us a Proof of his Abi¬ lity in thefe following Plays: Ambitions Statesman, or Thz Loyal Favourite, a Tragedy, 4.to. 167p. Afted at the Theatre RoyaI3 and Dedicated to her Grace the Dutchefs of Albermarie. This Play met not with the Applaufe the Author and his Friends expefted. For the Plot, Seef)e Senes, Ma* and otlipr Fremh Chronicles? Robert Cox. Andre,* Known AUTHORS. C a, Andromache, a Tragedy 4to. 1657. Afted at the Dukes Thea¬ tre in Vorfet-Garden. This Play was tranflated from the French of Monfieur Racine, by another Hand, into Profe, and turn'd into EngliJJ) Verfe by Mr. Crown, as he owns, and tho' the Original is well efteem'd, yet this had not its expefted Succefs on our EngliJJ: Stage. It feems founded on Virgil, Lib. 3. Ver. 292. and infomc things the Author follows the Andromache of Euripides. Calligula, Emperor of Rome, a Tragedy, London, Printed 4to, 1698. Afted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majefties Servants. For the Plot confult Suetoniut in his Life: for the Poet has very nicely follow'd his Character given us by that Author. Califto, or, The Chajl Ximph, a Mafque, 4to. 167$. This was writ by the Command of her late Majefty, and often times repre- fented at Court, by Perfons of great Quality, with Songs between the Afts. The Foundation from Ovid Met am. Lib. 2. Tab. 5, 6. Charles the Eighth of France, or The Invafion of Naples by the French■, an Hift. Tragedy 4^0. 1680. writ in Heroick Verfe; Afted at the Duke's Theatre in Salisbury-Court. Plot taken from Guic- dardine's Hift. Philip de Comines's Memoires : Andre de la Vigne, and other French Chronicles in the Reign of Charles VIII. City Politicks, a Comedy, 4*0.1685. Afted at the Theatre Roy¬ al in Vrury-Lane, with good Applaufe. This Play the Whiggifh Party in thofe times took to be a fevere Satyr on them. Country Wit, a Comedy, 4to. 1675. This Play, tho' but one Degree above Farce, was Afted at the Duke's Theatre in Dorfet Garden, and approv'd of by his then Majefty, King Charles II. Part of the Plot and Language is taken from that Comedy of Mol- liere" s, called Le Ski lien, ou L'Amour Ftintre. Darm, King of Perfia, a Tragedy, 4to. i<588. Afted by their Majefties Servants. For the Plot fee Qitint. Curt. Lib. 3, 4, and 5. Juftin. Lib. 11. Cap. 5. and Viodorw, Lib. 17, 1foe. Deftruflion of Jerufalemby Titm Vefpafian, in Two Parts, T. 4to. 167-j. Both thefe Tragedies are writ in Heroick Verfe, and when fir ft appeared on the Stage, were Afted at the Theatre Royal,with great Applaufe. For the Plot fee Jofephm Hift. Lib. 6, fo 7- Tad- tm Hift. Lib. 5. Suetonm, Eufeb'm, foe. Evglijh Fryar, or The Town Spares, a Comedy, 4to. 16go. This Play was Afted by their Majefties Servants •, but met not with that Succefs the Author expefted. See his Preface thereto. Henry the Sixth, the Firft Part, with the Death of the Duke of Gloucefter, a Tragedy, 4to. 168x. This Play was Dedicated to Sir Charles Sidley, and Afted at the Duke's Theatre with good Ap¬ plaufe at fir ft, but at length, the Romifh Faftion oppofing it, by their Inter eft at Court, got it fuppreft. See the Second Part of $ha\ejpear'i Henry VI. from whence part of this is borrowed. Henry 30 Known AUTHORS. G Henry the Sixth, the Second Part, or The Miferies ef Civil War, a Tragedy, 4to. i58i. Afted alfo at the Duke's Theatre, with good Applaufe. Part of it is likewile borrowed from Sha^efpear. For the Plot fee the Engl'tfh Chronicles writ in thofe times, by Grafton, Hollingfhed, Stow, Speed, firfl fet up in the fame Tennifcourt in Little Lin- colns-Inn-Fields, where they now Aft : But finding the good Aft- ing of the other Company won the Favour of the Town, he fet up the Whim of 'Opera's. He was Laureat to Charles the I. & II. hedy'dthe 7th of April, 1668. Aged 63, and is Buried among the Poets in Wejhninjler-Abbey. His Works are Publifhed Fol. 1673. His Plays which follow in Order, were moft of them Afted with Applaufe, and Printed in the Author's Life-time feparately in 4to. and fince together in Folio. Albovin King of the Lombards, his Tragedy 4^0. and fol. The Defign is founded onHiftory, andthe wrhole Story related in Ban- deUos Hiftoires Tragiques, Tom. 4. Nov. 19. Paulas Vi aeon us de G eft if Lovgob ardor um , lib. 2. c. 2 8. Greg. Epifc. Turonenfis Hi ft, Franconum, lib. 2. c. 28. Heyliris Cofmog. Part 1. Book 1. Page 57- ... Britannia Triumphans, a Mafque, 4to. written by him, and Inigo Jones the King's Surveyor. Cruel Brother, a Tragedy 4to. and fol. Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lord Weflon, Lord High Treafurer of Eng¬ land. The DiffreJJes,a Tragi-Comedy, Printed in Fol.1673. Entertainment at Rutland Houfe, Printed in fol. 1677,. This was prefented by way of Declamation, and Mufick, after the manner D of 34 Known AUTHORS. D of the Ancients: The Mufick, Vocal and Inftrumental was Com- pos'd by Dr.Coleman, Captain Cook.-, Mr. Larves, and Mr. Hud- Ton, all eminent at the time it was firft reprefented- The Fair Favourites. Tragi-Comedy,firft Printed in 4^0. and fince in fol. 167$. The J 11ft Italian, a Tragi-Comedy, firft Printed in 4 to. and face in fol.1673. Dedicated at firfi: Publifhing to the Right Honourable Earl of Dorfet, with Recommendatory Verfes of Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Care w. The Law againft Lovers, a Tragi-Comedy, fol.1673. Taken from two Plays of Shakefpear, viz. Meafure for Meafure, and, Much ado about nothing ■, the Language much amended and polifhd by our Author. v Love and Honour, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. and fol. Afted both at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, and in Dorfet-Garden,with Applaufe. The Mans the Mafter, a Comedy, 4 to. and fol. often Afted with Applaufe. Plot from ScaYrons Joddelet, ou Le Mai fire Valet, &c. The PlatonicJ^Lovers, a Tragi-Covr.edy, 8vo. and fol. firft Print¬ ed in 8vo. with the Wits, another Play of this Authors. The Play-Houfe to be Lett,fol. The fecond Aft confsfts of a French Farce Tranflated from Mollieres Sagnareffe : The third and fourth Afts contain the Hi ft or y of Sir Francis Drake, and the Cruelty of the Spaniands in Peru: The fifth Aft relates the Aftions of C&far Anthony and Cleopatra ■, moft of thefe Afted in 0/zw'stime, fepa- rately by Health, and fome of them Printed firfi in 4to. The Siege, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. 1673. The Siege of Rhodes, in two Parts, 4 to. and fol. Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, Afted with good Applaufe at the Theatre in Lincolns'lnn- Fields. For the true Story fee Boijjardi Icones vita Sultanorm Turcicorum in Fit. Solym. 2. Tho• Artus Continuation de la Hijloirt des Turcs, and our Engli/h Hiftory of the Turks, by Knoiles. News from Plymouth, a Comedy, fol. 1673. Afted formerly at the Globe. The Temple of Love,* Mafque, fol. 1673. This was in King Charles the Ift's time, prefented at Court by his Queen, and divers of the Nobility, both Lords and Ladies, the Scenes and Habits were very magnificent and Glorious. The Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour, a Mafque, prefented by his Highnefs, at his Palace in the Middle Temple, fol. 1673. Afted by the Members of that Honourable Society, as an Entertainment to the Prince Eleflor. The Author Compos'd it in three Days time *, the Mufick of the Songs fet by Mr. Henry, and Mr. Willi¬ am Lawes. The Wits,z Comedy ,8m 4to. and fol. firft Afted at Black, Fryers, and fince at the Duke's Theatre, with Applaufe.. Dr,Charles Known AUTHORS. D 3 J Dr. Charles Davenant. rrHlS Gentleman is theeldeftSon of Sir William, and Dr. of * Laws$ he is yet Living, and has given us one Proof that Horourn filii noxs, is not always true in his Play call'd, Circe, an Open, 4to. 1677. Afted at the Duke's Theatre with Applaufe. Plot founded on Poetical Hiftory -, fee Ovid's Meta- morph. Natal. Comes, Boccace, &c. Robert Davenport. HE liv'd in the time of King Charles I. writ two Plays, which were not Printed till the fucceeding Reign 5 he is Author of two Dramatick pieces, Afted with great Applaufe. The City Night-Cap, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1661. Plot from Don Quixofs Novel of the Curious Impertinent, and Boccaces Novels^ Day 7. Nov.7. John and Matilda, a Tragedy, 4to. 16$$. This Play is Dedi¬ cated to the Right Honourable Montague Bertie, Earl of Lindfey. For the Plot fee Hollingfiead, Martin, Stow, Speed and Bauer's Chronicles in the Reign of King John, j Robert Dauborn. TT HIS Author was both Poet and Divine he liv'd in the time of K. James I. was Mailer of Arts, but of which Univerfity is uncertain. He writ thefe two Plays following, The Chrijlian turnd 7wr£,a Tragedy,4*0. 1612. The Story from a Printed Book, entituled, The Overthrow of Captain Ward and Dan~ fiker, two Pirates, written by one Barker, and Publifhed 1609.4to. The Poor Mans Comfort,a Tragi-Comedy^fo. Printed 166$. but Afted many Years before. John Day. HE liv'd in the time of King James I. was once Student of Gonvile and Cam Coll. in Cambridge, and has Writ Six Plays, (vi%.) The Blind Beggar of Bednal-Green;with the merry Humour of Tom. Stroud the Norfolk Yeoman, a Comedy, 4to. 16 59. For the true Story fee o\ir EngliJh Chronicles in the Reign of King Henry VI. Humour out of Breath, a Comedy, 4 to. 1608. Ifle of Gulls, a Comedy, 4to. 163 3. This Play was often Afted ill the Blacky Fryers, by the then Children of the Revds 3 Plot from Sir Philip Sidney s Arcadia. D 2 ' tdvf Known AUTHORS. D Law Tricks, or who would have thought it,a Comedy, 4to. i6o2. This Play was alfo divers times Afted by the Children of the Re¬ vels. . Parliament of Bees, with their proper Characters, or (fays the Title) A Bee-hive, furnifh'd with Twelve Honey-Combs, as plea- fant as profitable : This in former Catalogues is accounted 3 Mafque. Printed 4^1 1607. Dedicated to a worthy Gentle¬ man (vi%.) Mr. George Butler, who has Writ and Publifheda Trea- tife of Bees. Travels of the Three Englifh Brothers, Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, and Mr. Robert Shir ley, an Hiftorical Play, 4 to. 1607. Rowley and Wilkins joined with this Author in Compofing this Hiftory for the Stage. See Dr. Fuller's Worthies, in his Defcription of Sujfex,p.ioj, fee alfo our EngliJ7; Chronicles. Thomas Decker. THis Author was a Contemporary of Ben.John fori'*, in the Reign of K. James I. and his Antagonifl for the Bays ■, he Writ Eight Plays entire, and four others aflifted with Webfier, Rowley, and Ford, in all Twelve, which take as follow. Fortunatw? a Comedy, 4to. 1600. ftiled, Old Fortunatm. This Play is not divided into Arts; the ftory is taken from the fbitch'd Book of Fortunatus. Hone ft Whore,the Firll: Part,with the Humours of the Patient Mk, and the Longing Wife ; a Comedy, 4to. 1635. Afted by her Maje- fties Servants with great Applaufe. Honeji Whore, the Second Part, with the Humors of the Patient Man, and the Impatient Wife, alfo the Comical paflage of an Ita¬ lian Br idem I, a Comedy, 4 to. 1630. This Play is not divided into Adts, nor ever, (I fuppofe) Atted. See Harringtons Epig. at the end of his Orlando Furiofo. if this Vent a good Play, the Devil's in't a Comedy, 4^0.16 a Play then Afted with great Applaufe by the (Queen's Majefties Servants. See Machiavel's Novel of Belphegor. "Match me in London, a Comedy, 4*0. 1631. This was then ac¬ counted a good Play and often Afted both at the Bull in St. John's fireet, and in Drury-Lane. Northward Hoe, a Comedy, 4*0. 1607. fundry times Afted by the Children of Paul's. John Webfier joined with our Author in this Play. See Ducento Novelle del Signior Celio Malejpini, part 1. Uov. 2. Satyromafiyx, or, TheZfntruffing the Humorow Poet, a Comedy, 4to. i5o2. prefented Publickly by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlain's Servants, and privately by the Cliildren of St.Paurs. Ben. Known AUTHORS. D 37 Ben. Johnfons Poetafter (wherein he is fevere on this our Author) occafioned the Writing of this Play. Weftward Hoe, a Comedy, 4.to. 1607. This Play was divers times Atted by the Children of Paul's. Mr. Webjler alfo was concerned in producing this Play. The Whore of Babylon, a Hiftory,4^o. 1607. Aftedby the Prince's Servants. This Play was defign'd to expofe the Roman Catholicks, efpecially the Jefuits at that time, and fets forth the excel¬ lent Virtues of Queen Elizabeth, and the many Dangers fhe efcaped. Wyafs Hiftory, 4to. 16 In this Mr. Webjler joined with him, and is a Play Mr. Langbdin never faw. See the Englifh Chron. in the Reign of Queen Mary. The Witch of Edmonton,aTragedy,4fc>.i558 In this riayMr.Rowley and Mr. Ford joined with him. The Wonder of a Kingdom, a Comedy, 4 to. 1636. He likevvife writ with Mr. Philip MaJJenger, the Virgin Martyr, and with Mr. Middleton, the Roaring Girl. Sir John Denham^ Knight of the Bath. HE was born in Ireland, tho' his Father was Sir John Denham of Horfley in EJJex, but was at the Birth of this his only Son a Judge in that Kingdom, and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 5 on his being promoted to the Exchequer in England, he brought over our Author very young. In the year 1631. he was fent to Trinity-Colledge in Oxon : After fome few years he left Oxon for London, where he applied himfelf to the Study of the Civil Law. By the Affifiance of Hugh Peters, he got admiffion to Charles I. then in the Armies Hands at Caufham, being then employed on a Meflage to him by the Queen, to whom he had offered his Ser¬ vice, which Negotiation he perform'd, fo that he was further era- ploy'd by the King : but being difcover'd by Mr. Cowley s Hand being known, he efcaped beyond Sea, where he afterwards gave his Attendance on King Charles II. who oftentimes gave him Sub- jetts to write on. He made him Surveyor General of his Royal Buildings, and at his Coronation Knight of the Bath. He dy'd at his Houfe near Whitehall, March 10th, 1668. and was Buried a- mong the Poets in Weftminfter-Abbey. He hath writ divers Poems and Tranflations in 8vo. among them Cooper's Hill, a Piece much commended ; at the end of thefe Poems is one Play of this Au¬ thor's, wherein he (hews his Ability in Dramatick Poefy. It is Entituled, The Sophy, a Tragedy, 8vo. 1671. Afted at the Blaci^ Friers with good Applaufe •, it was fir ft Printed in qto. 1542. Plot from Herbert's Travels, Life of Abbas. The fame Story is differently handled by Mr. Baron in his Tragedy of Mirqt. D 3 John 38 Known AUTHORS. 0 John Dennis. THis Gentleman now Living, has made himfelf a Name by fe- veral Books, both in Profe and Verfe, which he has Publifli- ed, but for none more than his Critical Obfervations on the fo much Celebrated Prince Arthur, writ by Sir Richard Blac^more, in which he has Chewed himfelf a perfeft Critick, and Mafter of a great deal of Penetration and Judgment; his Remarks being be¬ yond Controverfy juft, and the Faults he finds undeniably fuch. I am not able to give any Account of his Parents. He was Born in London, his Education was at Gonvile and Cam College in Cam¬ bridge, which he improv'd afterwards by Travel and the beft Con- Verfation ; but the occafionof his being mentioned here, is a Dra- matick piece he has lately Publifh'd, called, A Plot and no Plot, a Comedy, 4to. Afted at the Theatre Roy¬ al, 1697. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Sunderland., Lord Chamberlain of his Majefty's Houfhold. The Plot of this Play is our Author's own, tho' I confefs, an Incident or two are not fo new as the reft of the Play may juftly be faid to be -, for old Bulls being perfwaded, that he is in Newgate, when he's in his own Houfe, is not unlike an incident in the City- Politicks, and young Bulls being married by Baldernoe has been in theOld Batchelor, The City Match, t&c. This Play is exaftly regu¬ lar, and difcovers it felf writ by a Mafter of the Art of the Stage, as well as by a Man of Wit; the juftnefs, finenefs, and delicacy of the Reflections, the pleafantnefs of the Humours, the Novelty and Diftinftion of the Characters, the admirable Conduct and De- fign of the whole, with the ufeful Moral of the Play, places it in the Rank of the beft Comedies of this latter Age of Poetry ; and tho'he himfelf term it low Comedy, gives us a Defire, as well as Hopes, of fome more Noble Performance. Thomas Dilke. A Gentleman now living, who (as I am informed) was fome time a Student of Oriel Coll. in Oxon, has fince quit¬ ted the Camp for the Theatre, and Mars for Apollo -, he has given the World two Plays with different Succefs, the laft of which comes firft in order. The City Lady, or Folly Reclaimed, a Comedy Afted by his Ma¬ jefty's Servants, at the Theatre in Little Jjncolns-Inn-Fields, 4to. 169-?. Dedicated to Fifher fVevtworth,E(q-, This Play, as the Author tells us in the Epiftle, mifcarried in the firft Night's Reprefenta- tatioa Known AUTHORS. D 59 tation, and owns he has not hit the Humours of the Town in fomc of his principal parts* The Lover's Lucla Comedy, Afted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln*-Inn-Fields, by his Majefties Servants, 4*0. 1696. Dedica¬ ted to the Right Honourable the Lord Raby. This Play, as the Author takes care to inform us, met with a general Applaufe. As to the Characters, they are moft but Copies, Sir Nicholas Purflew, of the Antiquary of Marmion Goofandelo, of Sir Courtly, and Sir Foiling, As Seas and Winds to finding Mariners : But Seas grow calm, and Winds are recondl'd \ Her Tyrant Beauty never grows more mild. Cleomenes,The Spartan i/eroe,Trag.^o.Afted at the Theatre Royal, 1692. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Rochefler, Knight of the moft Noble Order of the Garter: To which is prefix'd the Life of Cleomenes, Tranflated from the Greekoi Plutarch, by Mr. Creech. This Play was by fome Enemies of the Poets, fo mif- reprefented at Court, that it was ftop'd •, but by the generous Friendfhip of the late Lord Falkland, clear'd from the Afperfions caft on it, and Afted with great Applaufe. As for the Plot or Story, the Author in his Preface owns it taken from Plutarch, and that he has clofely followed the Truth as he found it there; only that he has chang'd, for the fake of their found, fome Names, as that of Agathoclea, the King's Miftrefs, into Caffandra , and that of Nicagoras into C&mm. To the Story he has added the Love of Cajfandra for Cleomenes, and has given him a fecond Wife, which the Story only gave him a fmall hint for.And indeed our Au¬ thor has trod upon Plutarch fo clofe, that the very words of that Author,are Tranfplanted with little variation, into the Play. You may read more of Cleomenes in Polyb'm, and Cornelm Nepos in his Life. Conquefi of Granada by the Spaniards, Two Parts, a Tragi-Co- medy, 4to. 1678. Afted at the Theatre Royal. Almanxor is ve¬ ry like Ponce de Leon, in Almahide, as Mr. Langbain obferves ; but in my Opinion, tho' there may be many Features like Ponce in the Draught, yet Almanxor feems rather to be a Copy of the Achil¬ les of Homer, ill underftood, for he does more alone, and with¬ out an Army to back him, than Achilles with his Myrmidons j Achilles was injur'd, and defifted from fighting, but Almanxor goes over to their Enemiesnor is he fix'd there, but receiving ano¬ ther Injury from Abdalla, returns to Boabdelin, takes it ill that he is miftrufted, and tells them he will again change his fide, if pro¬ voked : But of him enough, fince no Man of good fence can think that Play s Succefs owing to the Excellency of the Poet's Performance, but the Extravagance *, for I have alwaysobferv'd it to have the Effeft of Comedy on the Audience: But Mr. Lang¬ bain will indeed have him a Knight of the Shire almoft, and Repre¬ sent 44 Known AUTHORS. D lent the Extravagant Heroes of two or three Romances more •, as the Ofmin of Gufman, and Artaban of Cleopatra , Boabdeline, Almahide, Ferdinand, Ifabella, Areas, Harriet, Gomel, from the Ro¬ mance of Almahide, and Ben%aida, from and yJ/zfoefc in Ibraim, &c. fee alfo GrW Cyrus, S.ix. Book i. for Abdelmelech, Lydaraxa, &c. fo much for the Characters, now for the thoughts; the Defcription of the Bull-Feaft, if allowing for the Rhime, al- moft:entirely taken from Gufman sluego de Toores, and Cannas -, Con- fult the Story of and Daraxa, Pt. I. page 82,85. the De¬ fcription of the Factions from Almahide, page 1. The four enfu- ing lines fpoke by Boabdeline, from Prince Mafia's Advice to ^4/tfw- izie, p. 6. the King's Speech going betwixt the Fa&ions, p. 5. ta¬ ken from Almahide, pt. 3. p. 63. Tariff a and O^min" s Quarrel, and the Rife of the Famlies, from Abindacrays Speech, Al. p,2. Al- man%or\ killing Gomel, hisquelling the Tumult, from Alm.p.64,65. Kis Victory, Aft 2d. and taking Acaos Prifoner, 7bid. The Scene • betwixt Lindaraxaznd Abdalla, from Al. p. 62. and from the Sto¬ ry of Elibefis in Cyrus, pt. 9. B.i. p. 20. Zulemws Plea for Abdal- Icts Right to the Crown, which one wou'd fcarce think is fochild- ifh a fancy, from Al.p.62. and Cyrus as above Alman^ors Defcrip¬ tion of Boabd. p. 18. from Al. p. $ 5. &c. nay , the Alarm after the Zambra-Dance, in which there is an abfurdity of bringing in the Images of a Heathen Deity. The fir ft; meeting of Alman. and Almahide, p. 69. of Abdalem and Alman^pr, jt>. 71. and the Con- troverfy betwixt Almanzpr and Zulema, ibidem, and his returning to Boabdelin, from the fame Romance, p. 72. Abdelmelechs Vifit to Lynidaraxa, in Difguife, from Elibefis in Grand Cynu,p. 25. and AbdalMs Vifit, from the fame, p. 67. Almanror\deli v ring Alma¬ hide, copied from Almahide. p. 73. AbdallasConverfe with Lynda- rax a , under the Walls of Albayxin, from the fore cited Story of Cyrm, />. 61. his flying to the Chriftians from p. 72. of the fame ■, Ofmin and Ben^aidas Flight, from p. 8. of Ibrahim. This is enough for the two Parts, to give a tafte of how many Feathers are borrowed from other Pieces, now I fhall proceed to another. Don Sebaftion King of Portugal, a Tragedy, 4^0. 1690. Aftedat the Theatre Royal; Founded on a French Novel of the fame Name, See alfo Vafconcellos's Anacephaleofisyfine fumma capitum Attorum Re- gum Lufitan'u. Anace. 20. and other Writers of that time, it being 1578. when Sebaftian waskill'd. The Duke of Gwfe, a Tragedy, 4^0.1 <58 3. Aftedby their Majefty's Servants. Mr. Zee join'd in this. For the Plot confult Davila, Mezeray , and other Writers of the Reign of Charles IX. or rather the Reigns of Henry III. &c. the ridiculous Story of Malicorn you may find in Rojfefs Hifloires Tragi qu.es en la vie de Canope 8vo. p.449. Evrimgs Known A U T H O R S. D 45 Evnings Love, or The Mock^ Aflrologcr, a Comedy, 4to. 1671. Afted at the Theatre Royal. Almoft wholly made up out of Cor- tieillesle feint Aflrologue ■, Molliers depetit Amoreux • and Les Pre- cieufes Ridicules Quinaulfs L'Amant Indifcretfome hints too from Shakefiear, Petronius Arbiter, and the main Plot on Calde- rons El Aftrologo fingido : But to be a little particular, Aurelias Affectation in her Speech from Les Precieufes Ridicules; Scene be¬ tween Alonxo and Lope^ , ^.39. is from* Mollieres depetit Amoreux, Aft 2. Scene 6. Camillas begging a Boon of Don Melchor, from the fame the Love-Quarrel betwixt Jacinta and Wild Blood, and Mafcal and Beatrix, from the fame Play, Aft 4. Scene 3,4. Au- relia's falling into Alonzps Arms, from L'Am ant indifcret Aft 5. Scene 4. Kind Keeper, or, Mr. Limberham , a Comedy 4fo. 1680. Afted at the Duke's Theatre. Mrs. Faintlies difcovery of Love All-in the Cheft} See pt. 1. Cynthio Giraldi, dec. 7,. N. 3. Mrs. Brain fields pricking and pickling him. See aNovel,call'd, The Triumph of Love «ver Fortune. King Arthur, or Tfo BritifJ) Worthy, a Tragedy, Afted at the Theatre in Dorfet-Garden, 1691. and Dedicated to the Marquefs of Halifax. This Play is writ more for the fake of the Singing part and Machines, than for any Excellence of a Dramatick Piece; for in it fliines.none of Mr. Dryderis great Genius, the Incidents being all extravagant, many of them Childifh } the Inchanted Wood, as well as the reft of the Wonders of OfmoncTs Art, he en¬ tirely owes to Taffo where Rinaldo ^performs what-Arthur does here. I fhall not prefume to expofe any of the Faults of this great Man in this particular piece, he having fuffered fo much under the Hands of my Predeceflor in this Undertaking. The fabulous Sto¬ ry of this King Arthur, you may read in Geffery of Monmouth, and in the Preface of a late famous Poem, that bears his Name, as weli as in the firft Volume of Mr. Tyrrell's Hiftory of England. Indian Emperor 3 or, The Conquefl of Mexico by the Spaniards, be¬ ing thefequelof the Indian Queen, a Tragi-Comedy, 4^. 1670. Afted at the Theatre Royal. For the true Story confult Lope? de Gamara. Hift. general de las Incai fa de Conquifla de Mexico, de Bry. America pars 9. /. 7. Ogilbys America, Chap. 3. Seft. 10. Mariana de Reb. Hifp. lib. 26. cap. 3. Six Paul Ricaufs Hifl of Inca's. Love Triumphant, or Nature will Prevail, a Tragi-Comedy, Aft¬ ed at the Theatre Royal by their Majefties Servants, 4ft).-1694. De¬ dicated to the Right Honourable James Earl of Salisbury, 6Cc. In the Epiftle Mr. Dryden informs us, That it is the laft he intends for the Theatre. I take this Play to be Founded on the Story of the King and no King of Fletcher, at lead on the Correftions of the Fa¬ ble of that Play made by Mr. Rymer, in his Refleftions on the Tra¬ gedies of the firft Age* Tho' this Play had not that S'uccefs which * " wioft ^6 Known AUTHORS. D moft of Mr.Drydens met with, yet it muft be confefs'd, That ia feveral parts the Genius of that Great Man breaks out, especially in the Scene of the Difcovery of Alphonfo's Victorious Love, and the very laft Scene, where the Cataftrophe is extremely moving, tho' contrary to Arifiotle it be made from the change of Will in Veratnond. Marriage A-la-mode, a Comedy, 4to. 1673. Afted at the Thea¬ tre Royal. The ferious part built on the Story of SefoftrU and Timareta, inB. 3. pt. 9. of Cyrus. The Characters of Pa.la.mede and Rodophil from the Story of Tyrianthes and Parthenia, in the fame Romance, pt. 6. B. 1. fome Features at lead of Doralice drawn from Nogaret,in the Annals of Love. Melanthus making Love to her felf, from Les Contes D'Ouville., pt. 1. p. 13. The Miftaken Husband,a Comedy, qto. 1675. Afted attheTheatre Royal. This is is not Mr. Dry dens, who only added a Scene; for the Plot confult Plautns's M&nechmi. Oedipus King of Thebes a Tragedy,4/0.1679. Afted at the Duke's Theatre. This Play was writ by Mr. Lee and Mr. Dryden; there¬ fore to whom to attribute the Faults is difficult; and we have fo little to accufe them of being Plagiaries here, that the moft under- ftanding Judges wirti tley had followed Sophocles yet clofer, it had then been the befr of our Modern Plays, as 'tis of the Ancients; but as it is, they have deftroyed the Character of Oedipus, and made it abfolutely Contradictory. For Oedipus that fled from a Crown, for fear of threatned Inceft, and had pull'd out his Eyes on the D;fcovery of it, can relifh an Embrace of Jocafia too well, snthe $th Aft, till the GhoFt of Laws frights him j but this place admits not all thofe juft Criticifms that might he made on this Play. The Rival Ladies,,a Tragi-Comedy,4ftj. 1679. Afted at the Theatre Royal. The Difpute betwixt Amideo and Hypolito, and Gonfahai fighting with the Pyrates, borrowed from Encolpius, Giton, Eu- tnolpus and Tryphena's, on Boarding the Vejfel of Lyca's, in Petroni• us Arbiter, and the Cataftrophe refembles Scarrons Rival Bro¬ thers. Secret Love, or, The Maiden Queen, a Tragi-Comedy, 4.to. 1679. Afted at the Theatre Royal. The ferious part founded on Cleebu- line Queen of Corinth, pt. 7. B. 7. Celadon, Florimel, Olinda, and Sabina, from theHiftory of Pi/ijlratus and Cerintha, in thefaid Cyrus , pt. 9. B. 3. and the French Marquefs Ibra. Part 2. Book 1. Figrid Innocence,or Sir Martin Afar-all, a Comedy,4fo.i<578. Afted at the Duke's Theatre. The greateft part, both Plot and Lan¬ guage of Sir Martin and Warner, ftol'n from Quinault's L'Arrant in- difcret, and Mollieres LEtowcdy oh le Contretemps. Sir Martin sioo- lift Difcovery of his not Playing onthcLute}iromIirm/e of Normandy, a Tragedy, fol. This Play hath been fometimes Afted of late Days in Dorfet Gar¬ den, with good Succefs. Plot from Herod.ian.Hift.Lib. 4. and part of the Language from Seneca's Tkebais. The Captain, a Comedy, fol. This Play has not been A fled of late years. The Chances 5 a Corned}', fol. Reviv'd by the late Duke of Buc¬ kingham , and Printed with Alterations 4U. 1682. oftentimes Afted with great Applaufe of late days at the Theatre in Dor- fet Garden, &c. Plot from the Lady Cornelia in Exemplary Navels, fol. or the Novels of Cornelia in Miguel des Cervantes Novels, tran¬ slated by Dr. Pope,' *8 Kmv>»AUTHORS. F The Corovation y a Tragi-Comedy, fol. not Afted thcfe many years. This Play, tho' Printed in this folio Edition, is claimed by Shirley to be his. The Ccxcomb, a Comedy, fol. This Play has been Revived and Adted at the Theatre Royal, but met with little Succefs. Cupid's Revenge, a Tragedy, fol. The Cujlont of the Country -, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. The Plot of kutiho, Duarte, and Guyomar, built on Malifpinit Novels, Vecad. 6. Nov. 6. The Double Marriage -, a Tragi-Comedy , fol. This Play was Revived fome Years fince, but met not with that Succefs ex- pefted. The Elder Brother -, a Comedy fol. oftentimes Afted formerly, and met with indifferent Succefs. ( The FaithfulShepherdefs; a Paftoral,/o/. This was entirely Flet¬ chers, and commended by (*) Copies of Verfes by Mr. Beaumnt and Ben. Johnfon. 'Twasfirfl Afted on a Twelfth Night, at Somer- fet-houfe in/lead of a Prologue was a Song in Dialogue, writ by Sir William Wavenant, and Sung between a Prieft and a Nimph ; and the (f) Epilogue was then fpoken by the Lady Mordant. The Fair Maid of the Inn • a Comedy, fol. Marianas difown- ing Ctfario , and the Duke's Injunftion to Marry him, you may find in Caufm's Holy Court, and Wanly s Hifi. of Man, Eook 5 Cap. 2 6, The Falfe One,a. Tragedy, fol. See Plutarch, Suetcmm, Dion,Appi- tin,Horns, Orojim, &c. Four Plays ■, or, Moral Reprefentations in One, Tragi-Comedy, fol. (viz.) The Triumphs of Honour built on Boccace's Novels, Day 10. Nov. 5. Triumph of Love, on Nov. 8. Day 5. Triumph of Death, on Nov. 3. Part 3. of the Fortunate Deceivd, and Unfortunate Lo¬ vers, alfo The Palace of Pleafure, Nov. 4. And The Triumph of Time, the Author's own Invention. An Honefl Man's Fortune ■, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. See Hcywoois Hijl. of Women, Book 9. p. 641. The Humorous Lieutenant •, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. Some hint may be taken from Horace, Lib. 2. Ep. 2. but rather from Ford's Apothegms, p. 30. See alfo Plutarch's Life of Demetrius , Appian, Jufiin, foe. I/land Princefs, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. and 4to. This Play was about ten Years fince Reviv'd by Mr. Tate, the prefent Poet Lau- reat, with Alterations. A died at the Theatre Royal, and Dedica- ted to the Right Honourable Henryt Lord Wml grave, the Quarto Edi¬ tion, Printed 1687. * See Beaumont and Fletcher x Plays, laft Edition, fol. p. 233. •fCovent Garden Drollery, p. 85. * ' tfjn> Known AUTHORS. F 59 A King and no King-, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. Reviv'd fmce the Re¬ ftauration, and Afted with Applaufe at the Theatre Royal. The Knight of the Burning Pefile ■, a Comedy, fol. Reviv'd alfoin King Charles the Second's time, and Afted at the Theatre Roy¬ al, with a new Prologue, fpoken by the famous Madam Ellen Guin. A Knight of Malta, a Tragi-Comedy fol. not Afted of late years. The Laws of Candy,, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. not Afted thefemany years. The Little French Lawyer, a Comedy, fol. Plot from Gufman's Don Lewi*. deCaJlro, and Don Roder/go de Montalvo. Seealfo Scarroon% Novel of the Fruitlefs Precaution. Loves Cure; or, The Martial Maid, a Comedy, fol. Love's Prilgrimage, a Comedy, fol. The Plot from a Novel, call'd, The Two Damfels , in a Book Entituled Exemplary Novels„ and part of the Play taken from Johnfons New Inn. The Lovers Progrefs, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. Plot from a French Romance, call'd Lyfander and Califta. The Loyal Subjeil -, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. The Mad Lover, a Comedy, fol. See the Story of Mundus and Paulina, in Jofepfm Hift. of the Jews, Book 18. Chap. 4. The Maid in the Africa Comedy • This Play was Reviv'd,and fome- times Afted at the Dukes Theatre after the Fire of London. Plot of the ferious part from Gerardo, a Romance, and the Comical part from Bandello's Novels. The Maid'sTragedy, a Tragedy, fol. This Play was often Afted at the King's Theatre fince the Reftauration; but fomewhat in it dil- pleafingKing Charles the Second, it was for fome time forbid com¬ ing on the Stage, till Mr .Walkr Reviving it, and wholly altering the la ft Aft (which is Printed in his Poems) appeared again pub- lickly. A Mafque of Grays-Inn and the Inner Temple-Gentlemen, fol. This was prefented at the Marriage of the Princefs Elizabeth, and the Prince Palatine of the Rhyne, in the Eanquetting Houfe of Whitehall-, written by Mr. Beaumont alone. Monfieur Thomas, a Comedy, fol. This has appeared fmce on the Stage, with a new Title, call'd, Trick, for Tricl£. Nice Valour-, or, The Pajfionate mad Man -, a Comedy, fol. The Night Walker -, or, The little Thief, a Comedy , fol. This has been Adted fmce the Reftauration, by the King's Ser¬ vants. The Noble Gentleman-, a Comedy, fol. This Play has appear¬ ed of late years with a new Title, call'd , The Fool's Prefer¬ ment j or, The Three Dukes of Dunftable , Riviv'd by Mr. Dur- fey. Philafter 6efpear a flirted in the writing of this Play. Valentinian, a Tragedy, fol. and 4ts. This Play, has been Re¬ viv'd and Alter'd by the late Earl of Rochefier, and fo Afted at the Theatre Royal with great Applaufe. The Quarto Edition, Pub- Jiflied 1(585. with a Preface relating to the Author and his Works. Plot from Amm. Marcettinw. Procopm. Hi J}. Evagri- tti, and other Writers of thofe times. A Wife fir a Month,,a Tragi -Comedy, fol. See the Story hereof in Mariana,and Louis de Mayerne Turquet, and the Hiftory of SanckoVlll- King of Leon. The Wild Goofe Chafe, a. Comedy, fol. This Play has been in good repute. Wit at fever a I Weapons, a Comedy, fol. built on thzWits; writ by Sir William V'avenant. Wit without Money, a Comedy, fol. This Play was Reviv'd and Afted in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, immediately after the Theatre in Vriiry Lane was burnt, with a new prologue by Mr. Drydcn. Tht 1 Known AUTHORS. F 61 The Woman Hater, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. Revived by Sir William D'avevant, with a * new Prologue writ in Profe. Mr. Fletcher writ this Play without the Affiftance of Mr. Beaumont. The Womans Fri^e-j or, The Tamer Tamd -, a Comedy, fol. built on the Turning of the Shrew, writ by Mr.Shakefpear, and may be ta¬ ken as a Counter part thereof. Women Fleas'd -, a Comedy, fol. Sec the raoft Comical parts hereof taken from Nov. 6. Day 7. and Day 8. Nov. 8. or, The Marriage of the Arts, a Comedy, 4to. 1630. Afted by the Students of Chrift-Church, aforefaid, at Shrove¬ tide. This Play was then in good Efteem. He hath written divers Pieces, as his Tranflation of the Satyrs of Juvenal and Perfew, Witfj Known AUTHORS. H 75 with Notes and Sculptures, Fol. A Verfion of the Odes of Horrace-y divers Sermons, 4*0. and Two Trafts in Latin. Charles Hool. THIS Gentleman liv'd in the Reigns of the Two Charles's, being born at Wakefield, in Terl^flrire, was entred at Lincoln-College in Oxm, at Eighteen, and afterwards taking his Matter's Degree, he taught School at thefe feveral Places (yi^f) Rotheram in Torl^ fine, Red-Crofs-Street, and Arundel-Buildings, in London. And, after the King's Reftauration, in Wales, lie tranflated Terrence's Comedies, in all, Six, 8vo. 1676. Printed in Englifh and Latin, for the ufe of Young Schollars, in many Places Caftra- ted. He hath tranflated divers other things, as JEfop's Fables, Corde- rins, Cato, Comenii Or bis Pifhu, <&c. He has alfo Publifh'd a Grammar, an Explanation of the Accidence, and a Greek Tefta- ment with Themes in the Margin, foe. Charles Hopkins. A Young Gentleman that is now living, his Father was that eminently Learned and Pious Divine, E^ekiel Hopkins, Bifhop of London-Deny, in the Kingdom of Ireland. Our Poet was born in Devon/hire, but carried, when a Child, to his Father s See and when he had part his Childhood under fo good a Father, he remo¬ ved firft to Dublin-College, and thence to Cambridge ■, whence he went to the Wars of Ireland, and having there exerted his early Valour, in fo Glorious a Caufe as that of his Country, Religion, and Liberty, he returned to England, and made London his Aboad; where he fell into the Acquaintance of Gentlemen of the beft Wit, and Parts, whofe Age and Genius were moft agreeable to his own. He is one of thofe who is, beyond Controverfy, born a Poet, which he has fhown in all the Pieces he has already Publifh'd the Sweet- nefs of his Numbers, and Eafinefs of his Thoughts, in the feveral Copies of Verfes he has Publifh'd, particularly his Tranflations out of Ovid, Printed for Mr. Tonfon, fhew him born to tranflate that Author} for, if that Opinion of Pythagoras were true, we fhould conclude, the Soul of the tender Najo, were tranfmigrated into Mr. Hopkins : All the other Tranflators of that Poet, have loft his Genius, his Verification and Softnefs. But the Occafion of his being mentioned here is, his having Publifh'd Two Plays, with dif¬ ferent Succefs. Boadicea, 74 Known AUTHORS. H Boadicea, Queen of Britain, a Tragedy, Afted at the Theatre in Liticolns-Inn-Fields, 1697. 4to. and Dedicated, in Verfe, to Mr. Congreve. This Play met with great Applaufe, pleafing both the Ladies and Gentlemen •, and indeed, befides the peculiar Sweetnefs of his Numbers, for it is written in Heroick Verfe, he has in this Play touch'd the PafTIons, and the Firfi: Scene of the Fourth Aft, betwixt Caffibellan and Camilla, where fhe discovers her Rape, is mod MafterJy perform'd. The Story is the fame with Bonduca, fhe being fometimes called, Boadicea, and fometimes Bonduca. You may read of her in the Fourteenth Book of Tacitus's Annals, the Second Book of Milton s Hiflory of England, the Seventh Page of - Ubaldino de cita delle donne illujlri del Regno £ Ingelterra Scotia, and Mr. Tyrrell's Hiflory of England, lately Publifh'd, Vol. 1. Pyrrhus, King of Epiws, a Tragedy, Afted at the new Theatre, in Little Lhrcolns-Inn-Fields, by his Majefty's Servants, 169$. Ato, and Dedicated to his illuftrious Highnefs, the Duke of Gloucester. This was our Author's Firft Play,in which there is a great deal that fhews him a Poet, but not enough, it feems, to gain it that Suc- cefs which he defired : He was very Young when it was writ, and therefore maybe well excus'd for wanting that Correftnefs, which a more Mature Author, perhaps, wou'd have obferv'd. The Hiflo¬ ry of Pyrrhus is to be found in Livy, Bool^ Plutarch, in the Life of that King, Lucius Florwy (£rc. Edward Howard, Efq$ BRotherto the Right Honourable, SirAoJerf Harvard, and of the Noble Family of Berl^-fhire, 'tis to be wifh'd, that his Friends cou'd either have prevail'd with him to have Publi/h'd none of his Poetry, or have been lefs fevere upon him, he has Four Plays in Print, vix» Man of Nerr-Market, a Comedy, 4to. 1678. Afted at the The¬ atre Royal, but with little Applaufe. Six Days Adventure, a Comedy, 4^0. 1671. Afted at the Duke of Tories Theatre, in Dor jet-Gar den. This Play met with no good Succefs. The Vfurper, a Tragedy, 4to. 1668. Afted at the Theatre Royal, by his MajeAy's Servants. Woman s Conquefl, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1677. Afted by the Duke of Tories Servants, in Dorfet-Garden. This Author has writ¬ ten Two Books of Poetry, in 8 vo. One call'd, The Brit iff: Princess-, the other, Poems and Ejjaysi with a Paraphrafcon Cicero's Laliui; Printed 1675. Jtmes Known AUTHORS. H James Howard, Efq; A Gentleman of the Noble Family of the Jfowards, that has Two Plays in Prints under the Titles of All Mijlaken, or, The Mad Couple, a Comedy, 4to. 1671. Afted at the Theatre Royal, by his Maje fly's Servants. Enghjh Moiffieur, a Comedy, /\,to. 1674. Afted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majeftys Servants. Thefe Two Plays met with fomewhat better Succefs than thofe of the beforegoing Author. Sir Robert Howard. THIS Honourable Perfon is Brother to the above mentioned Mr. Edward Howard, and to the Earl of Berks, who has long fince quitted the barren Fields of Poetry, for the more advantagi- ous Port: of the State, in which he has, for many Years, made a considerable Figure, being Auditor of the Exchequer, foe. I have not the Honour to fay much of my own Knowledge of him, but I am told, that it is no fmall Part of his Character, to be a Pa¬ tron and Encourager of Learning; which is a peculiar Merit, in an Age when the felfifii Vices of the trading Part of the Nation, are got into the firft Ranks of Men,' who will not be fo expenfive, to keep a Creature meerly for its Wit, as Mr. Prior fays of one. He has writ thefe Six following Plays, The Blind Lady, a Comedy, 8vo. This is ufually bound with divers other Poems of his, and are Re-printed, or at leaft, a jiew Title Printed, 1696. The Committee, a Comedy, Fol. 166$. This is efteemed an ex¬ cellent Play, and often times Afted in thefe Times. The Great Favourite, or, The Duke of Ley ma, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1688. Afted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majefty's Servants. See Mariana, Turquet, De Mayern, &c. The Indian Queen, a Tragedy, Fol. 166$. This Play is writ in Heroick Verfe, and formerly Afted with general Applaufe, at the Theatre Royal, but now turn'd into an Opera, and many times of late reprefented at the fame Theatre, with the like Succefs. TheSurprifal, a Tragi-Comedy, Fol. 166$. This was formerly Afted at the fame Theatre, by his Majefly's Servants. The Vejlal Virgin, or, the Roman Ladies, a Tragedy, Fol. A fled alfo at the fame Place, and by the fame Aftors, but not of late Years. This Play has a double Fifth Aft, one ending Tragically, the other Succesfully. Four of his above Plays, are Printed toge¬ ther Fol* I James Known AUTHORS. I James Howel, Efqj A Gentleman born at AbermarlU, in Caermar then/hire, in Stuth- Wales, 1594. the Seat now of a worthy Gentleman of the Noble Name and Family of Cornwatttt, he was at Sixteen fentfrom Hereford-School, to Jefut-College, Oxon. In the Year 1618. he was fent beyond Sea, by Sir Robert Manfel ■, he travelled the Low Coun¬ tries from Italy, &c. was employed by King James, in Negotiati¬ ons in Spain was Secretary to the Lord Scroop, when he was Pre- fident of the North, (yc. He writ and tranflated Nine and Forty Books: He died about the Beginning of November, 1666. and lies buried on the North Side of the Temple-Church, with this Infcrip- tion over him on the Wall•, Jacobus Horvel, Cambro Britanm, Regw Hifloriographus, in Anglia primus ■, qui pofi varias peregrinati- ones, tandem Nature Curfum peregit, Satur Annorum, & fama D«- mt, forifq• hue ufq-, erratiews, hie fixuf, 1666. He writ One Play, called, The Nuptials of Pelem and Thetis, a Mafque and Comedy, 4to, 1654. Afted at Paris, by the French King, Duke of Torl^, Duke of Anjou, Henrietta Maria, Princefs of Conti, with others of the Nobility there. The Author tranflated it from an Italian Comedy, The Plot is taken from Ovid's Metamorph. Lib. 11. aud Catulli Ah gonoutica five Epithalamium. A Dancin&~Mafter auc* Player, was a Man of uncommon Afti- j-X vity, liv'd in the Time of Charles and James the Second, X X writ one Play, intituled, The Devil of a Wife, or, The Comical Transformation, a Farce, 4to. 1686. Afted by their Majefties Servants, at the Queens Thea¬ tre Dorfet-Garden. Taken from the Story of Mopfa in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. I Thomas Jevorn, Thoptat Known AUTHORS. I 77 Thomas In gel and. HE was of Cambridge, in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, writ a Play, intituled, The Difobedient Child, qto. which he calls, A Pretty Merry In¬ terlude. 'Tis Printed in an old Black Letter, fo long fince, that it had not any Date of the Year. Benjamin Johnfon. WEflminfter gave him Birth, and the Firft Rudiments of his Learning, under Mr. Cambden which St. Johns-College of Cambridge, and Chrift'Church of Oxon finifh'd, where he took his Mailer of Arts Degree •, Neceffity drove him thence, to follow his Father-in-Law's Trade of a Bricklayer •, working at Lincolns-Innt with a Trowel in his Hand, and Horace in his Pocket, he found a Patron that fet him free from that Slavifh Employment. He was ©f an open, free Temper blunt and haughty to his Antagonifts and Criticks ; a Jovial and Pleafant Companion; was Poet Laureat to James and Charles the Firft. He died in the Sixty Third Year of his Age, An. Dom. 1637. and is buried in Weftminfter- Abby3 near the Belfry, with only this Epitaph : 0 R A R E BEN. JOHNSON. His Dramatick Pieces, about Fifty in Number, follow: The Alchymifi, a Comedy, Afted by the King's Majefty's Servants, firft, 1610. and afterwards printed, vi%. 1640. and 1692. Bartholomew-Fair, a Comedy, Fol. 1640. and 1692. Afted firft at the Hope, on the Bank-fide, 1614. by the Lady Elizabeth's Ser¬ vants, and Dedicated to King James the Firft j and Afted with good Applaufe, fince King Charles the Second's Reftauration. Cateline his Confpiracy, a Tragedy, Fol. 1640. and 1692. and in 4to. 16 . Afted firft by the King's Majefty's Servants, 1611. and fometimes fince the Reftauration, with good Applaufe. Is Dedicated to William, then Earl of Pembrock: Plot from Saluft. Hijh Plutarch in Vtt. Cic. Challenge at Tilt, at a Marriage, a Mafque, Pol. 1640. and 1692. Chrijimais Mafque, Fol. 1640. and 1692. This was firft Prefent- ed at Court, 1616. Cloridia, 78 Known AUTHORS. I Cloridia, or, Rites to Cloris, a Mafque, Fol. 1692. prefented by the Queen's Majefty, and her Ladies at Court, at Shrovetidet 1650. Mr. Iriiga J ones affifled in the Invention hereof. Cynthia's Revels, or, the Fountain of Self-Love-, a Comedy, Fal, 1640. and 1692. Afted by the Children of Queen Elizabeth's Chappel. 1600. Devil's an Afi, a Comedy, Fol. 1541. and 1692. Afted by his Ma jelly's Servants, 1616. See Boccace's Novels, Day 5, Nov. 5. Entertainment at King James the Firft his Coronation. Fol. 1692, This contains only Gratulatory Speeches at the faid Coronation, with a Comment by the Author to illuftrate the fame. Entertainment of King James and Queen Antt, at Theobalds, Fol, 1640. and 1692. Entertainment of the King of England, and the King of Denmark at Theobalds, July 24. ido5. Fa/. 1640. and 1592. '• Entertainment of the King and Queen on May-Day, at Sir Wii- /iijw Cornwallis's Houfe at High-gate, 1504. Fo/. 1(540. and • 1592. Entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Althrop -, this was the 25th of June, 1603. at the Lord Spencers Houfe there, at their coming Firft into the Kingdom. Fol. 1^40. and 1592. Every Man in his Humour, a Comedy, Fol. 1640. and i6$2i Afted firft in the Year 1598. by the then Lord Chamberlain'i Ser¬ vants, and Dedicated to Mr. Cambden, Clarenceux. It has been re- viv'd and Afted fince the Reftauration, with good Applaufe, and a new * Epilogue writ for the fame, part of it fpoken by Bat, Johnjoris Ghoft. Every Man out of his Humour, a Comedy, Fol. 164.0. and 1692. Afted by the then Lord Chamberlain's Servants. This was alfo re¬ vived and Afted at the Theatre Royal, 1575. with a new f Pro¬ logue and Epilogue, writ by Mr.Duffet, and fpoken by Jofepl) Haynes. Fortunate Ifles, a Mafque, Fol. 1641. and 1692. defign'd for the Court on Twelfth Night, 1626. Golden Age Reft or ed, a Mafque, Fol. 1641. and 1692. This was prefented at Court by the Lords and Gentlemen, the King's Servants 1626. Hymn&i, or, The Solemnities of a Mafque and Barriers at a Mat' v'tage, Fol. 1692. See the Learned Marginal Notes, for the Ilia- ftration of the (ireel^ and Roman Cuftoms. * ColleUion of Poems on feveral Occafions3 8vo. 1673. pag. 2J>» f Duffet'f Poems, 8vo. pag. 72,- jrijb Known AUTHORS. I 79 Irifb Mafque at Court Fol. 169 2. prefented at Court by Gentle¬ men, the Kings Servants. Kings Entertainment, at Welbeclin Nottingham/hire, Fol. 1*592. ; This Entertainment was at the then Earl, fince Duke of Newcajfle'i Houfe, 1633. j Love freed, fiom Ignorance and Folly, a Mafque, Fol. 1692. , Love Rejlored, a Mafque, JFo/. 1692. prefented at Court by Gen¬ tleman the King's Servants. Love's Triumph thro' Callipolis, a Mafque Fol. 1692. perform'd at Court by his late Majefty King Charles the Firft, with the Lords and Gentlemen aflifting, 1630. Mr. Johnfon and Mr. Inigo Jones join'd in the Invention. Love's Welcome• an Entertainment for the King and Queen, at . the then Earl of Ncrrcaftle's at iBolfover, 1634. and Printed Fol. ' 1692. Magneticl^Lady, or,Humours Reconciled, a. Comedy,R>/. 1^40. and >' n592.Afted at theBlacl^Fryars.ThisYhy occafioned fome Difference or Jarring, between Dr. Gill, Mafter of Paul's School, and our Author, Ben. as appears by a Satyrical Copy of Verfes writ by the ^ former, and as fharp a Repartee by the latter. * Mafque at the Lord Hadingtons Marriage, prefented at Court on • Shrove-Tuefday-Night, 1608. Printed Fol. 2. Mafque ef Augurs, Fol. 1692. This was prefented on Twelfth* "Right, k522. with feveral Anti-mafques. Mafque of Owls, at Kenelworth, Fol. 1692. In this Prefenta- s tion there was the Ghoft of Captain Cox, mounted on his Hobby- it Horfe. Mafque nf Queens, celebrated from the Houfe of Fame, by the J Queen of Great Britain, with her Ladies, at White-Hall, Feb. 2. 1609. Fol. 1692. See the Marginal Notes. The Author was af- r fitted by Mr. Inigo Jones, in the Invention and Architecture of the 1 Scenes belonging thereto. Mafque at the Lord Hayes Houfe, Fol. 1692. This was prefented by divers Noblemen, for the Entertainment of Monfieur Le Baron deTour, Ambaflador Extraordinary from the French King. 1617. Metamorphofed Gipfies, A Mafque, Fol. 1692. prefented to King James the Firft, at Burleigh on the Hill, at Belvoyr, and at Windfor- Caftle. i<52i. (l Mercury Vindicated from the Alchymifls at Court, a Mafque, Fol. 1692. prefented by Gentlemen, the King's Servants. Mortimer's Fall, a Tragedy, Fol. 164.0. and 1592. This was not quite finifh'd by the Author , but left imperfeft, by reafoi\ ' of his Death. % Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion, a Mafque, Fol. 1692. prefented at Court on Twelfth-Night, 1624, News 80 Knmim AUTHORS. I News from the New World difcovered in the Moon, a Mafque, Fol. 1692. prefented alio before King* James the Firft, 1620. Oberon, the Fairy Prince, a Mafque of Prince Henry's, Fol. 1692. The Author has divers Annotations on this Play. Pans Anniverfary, or, The Shepherds Holy day, a Mafque, Fol, 1692. This was prefented at Court before King James the Firft. Mr. Inigo Jones aftifted our Author in the Decorations. Pleafure reconciled to Vertue, a Mafque, Fol. 1692. This was alfo prefented at Court, before King James the Firft, 1619. Here¬ to were fome Additions for the Honour of Wales. Poet after, or, Hu Arraignment, a Comedy, Fol. 1692. Aftedby the Children of his Majefty's Chappel, 1601. This Play is adorned with feveral Tranflations from the Ancients. See Ovid's Elegies, Lib. 1. Eleg. 15. Horat. Sat. Lib. 2. Sat. 9. and Lib. 2. Sat. 1, (&c. Queen's Mafque of Blac\nefs, Fol. 1692. This was Perfonated at the Court at White-Hall, on the Twelfth-Night, 160$. • -Her Mafque of Beauty, Fol. 1692. This alfo was prefented at the fame Court, at White-Hall, on the Sunday-Night after the Twelfth-Night, 1608. Sad Shepherd, or, A Tale of Robin Hood, a Paftoral, Fol. 1692. This Play has but Two intire Afts, finifh'd, and a Third left imper- feft. Scjanui's Fall, a Tragedy, Fol. 1692. firft Acted by the King's Majcfties Servants, 1605. Plot from Tacitus, Suetonm, Seneca, (foe. There is an Edition of this Play 4to. 1605. by the Authoi's own Orders, with all the (Quotations from whence he borrowed any thing of his Play. Silent Woman, a Comedy, fol. 1692. Afted Firft by the Children of her Majefty's Revels, 1609. Aft I. Scene I. borrowed from Ovid de Arte Antandi: Aft. II. Scene II. Part from Juvenal, Sat. 6. Aft II. Scene V. from Plaut Auricular, AH 3. Scene $, &c. This Play has been in good Efteem, and for a farther Commendation you are refer'd to Mr. Dry dens Examen. Speeches at Prince Henry s Barriers, Fol. 1692. Thefe are indeed Printed among his Mafques, but cannot be accounted one 5 only reckoned fo in former Catalogues. Staple of News, a Comedy, Fol. 1692. Afted by his Majefty's Servants. In this Play Four Goffips appear on the Stage, critici- iing on the fame, during the whole Aftion. Tale of a Tub, a Comedy, Fol. 1692. Time vindicated to himfeif qpd his Honors, a Mafque, Fol. 1692. This was prefented at Court on Twelfth-Night, 1623. * Dryden's Dramatick. Ejfay, page. 50. Vifion Known AUTHORS. I 8r Vifion of Delight, aMafque, Fol. 1692. This was alfo prefented at Court in Chrijimas, 1617. Vulpone, or, The Fox, a Comedy, Fo!. 1692. Afted by the King's Majefty's Servants. This is writ in Imitation of the Comedies of the Ancients. The before mentioned Plays, and other Poems, Ralph Ktievet. Thomas Kyd. L Known AUTHOR Si L Sf The Dumb Lady; or, The Farrier made Phyfician, a Comedy, 4^. t$j2. Plot and Language from Mollieres le Median Malgre luy. The Old Troop; or, Monfieur Ragou, a Comedy, 4to. 1672. Sir Hercules Buffoon or, The Poetical Squire, a Comedy, 4to, 1684. publifh'd after his Death. J. Leonard» A Plagiary of extraordinary A flu ranee, that fet up with othet Mens Writings for the Name of an Author. He publi/hed Two Plays under thefe Titles, The Country Innocence or, The Chamber-maid turnd Quaker, A Comedy, 4to. 1677. Taken from a Play, call'd, The Country Girls by Brewer. The Rambling Juflice; or, The JeaUm Husbands, a Comedy, 4^. 1680. Moft part from a Play, call'd, More Diffetnblers bsfdes Wo¬ men, a Comedy, 4to. by Middleton. Nath. Lee. AL L the Account I can give you of our Author, is, That h& was Son of a Minifler of the Church of England, had part of his Education at Cambridge, was received with general Applaufe in moil: of his Plays. He run Mad^ and was fome Years in Bethlem, and after he was let out he was never perfectly well; fo died iri , the Street in the Night Time. That he has /hewn a Ma Her-piece in Luc'm Junius Brutm, which fcarce one of his Contemporaries haveequal'd, and none excel d, can never be doubted. C&far Borgia, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. Afted at the Duke's Theatre, See Ouiciaraine, lib. 5, 6. Mariana, lib. 27, 28. Sir Paul Ricaufs Contin.of Vlatina, in the Reign of Pope Alexander the Sixth. Corifiantine the Great, a Tragedy, 4to. 1684. Aflied at the The¬ atre Royal, by their Majefty's Servants. Plot from Eufebm de vita Conftanttni, gonartis, Eutfopm, Barohim, Ammiahw Marcillinw4 and Beard's Theatre of God's Judgments. Gloriana, the Court of Auguftm Cxfar, a Tragedy, 4to. 1676. Aft- fcd at the Theatre Royal, by their Mj jetties Servants, and dedica¬ ted to the Dutchefs of Portfmouth. See the Stories of C&fario, Mar- cellw and Julia, in Cleopatra, Part 1. Bool^ 3. Part 5. Book, 3, &c. Luciuf, Junius Brutus, Father of hit Country, a Tragedy, 4to. t6$ r,- Afted at the Duke's Theatre, and dedicated to the Ri^ht Honoura¬ ble, the E-irl of Dor fet and Middlefex. See the Story of Junius Brum iti Cleliaj a Romance; Par* 2, Bool^ u and Part 3. Boaki; <5 9 And 86 Known AUTHORS. L And for the true Hiftory, ccnfult FloYus, Livy, Dion, Hall'kff, Orofius, foe. Maffucre of ParU, a Tragedy, 4to. 1690. Afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majefties Servants. See Thuanus Pierre Mathieu, Davila, Merer ay, foe. If you compare a Play, call'd, The Du\e nf Guife, with this, you may find divers PafTages there borrowed from hence. Mthridates, King of Pont us, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1678. Afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majefties Servants -? and dedicated to the Right Honourable, the Earl of Dorfet and Middlesex. Plot from Appian, Alexand. Roman Hijl. Florus, Veil. Paterculus, and Plutarch in the Lives of Scylla, Lucullus, Pompey, foe. Nero, Emperor of Rome, hit Tragedy, 4to. 167 Affed at the Theatre Royal, by their Majefties Servants, and dedicated to the Right Honourable, the Earl of Rechejler. Plot from Suetonius in vita Neronis, Aurelius ViUor, Tacitus Annul, foe. The Princefs of Cleve, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1689. Afted at.the Queens Theatre in Dorfet Gardenand dedicated to the Right Ho- nourable, Charles, Earl of Dorfet and Middlesex, Lord Chamber- Iain of his Majefty's Houfhold. Founded on a Romance of the fame Title fee alfo a Book called, the French Rogue, 81jo. The Rival Queens •, or, The Death of Alexander the Great, a Tra¬ gedy, 4to. 11577. Afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majefties Servants; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, John, Earl of Mulgrave. PJot from Quint. Curt. Plutarch's Life of Alexander the Great, JuJlin, Jofephus, foe. Sophonisba■, or Hannibal's Overthrow, a Tragedy, 4^. 1576, Afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majefties Servants; and de¬ dicated to the Dutchefs of Portfmouth. Plot from Sir Walter Raleighs Hijl. of the World, Book 5. Chap. 3. Seft. 18. Lhj, Florus, Appian, Diodorus, Polibius, JuJlin, foe. Theodofius-, or, The Force of Love, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. Afted at the Duke's Theatre, by their Royal Highnefles Servants •, and dedicated to her Grace, the Dutchefs of Richmond. Plot from Pharamond, a Romance*, Eufeb. Hiji. EcclefiajlicaVarannes5 Martian, and Theodofius. Moft of thefe Plays have been applauded by the Spe&ators, and their Worth v. knowledged by Dryden, and Other Poets, in divers Copies of Verfes before fome of them. He joined with Mr. ]Dryden, in Two other Play?, vi%. The Duke of Guife, and Oedipus, both Tragedies, for which fee under Dryden Senior. John Known AUTHORS. L 87 John Lilly. ONE of the firft Reformers of our Language, in Queen Eli¬ zabeth's Days he was born in Kent, bred in Magdalen-Col- lege, Oxon, and there took his Degree of Mafter of Arts, 1575. The Time of his Death I know not j he has publifiied thefe Nine Plays following. Alexander and Campafpe, aTragi-Comedy, 12m. 1632. Afted on a Twelfth Night, before the Queen, by her Majefty's Children, and thofe of Paul's, and fometimes after at Blacky Fryars. Plot from Pliny\ Natural Hift. Lib. 3 5. Cap. i o. Endimion, a Comedy, 12mo. 1632. Prefented alfo before Queen Elizabeth, by the fame Children. Plot from Lucians Dialogue be¬ tween Venus and the Moon, Natales Comes, and Galtruchius's Hift. of the Heathen Gods. Galathea, a Comedy, 12mo. 1632. Prefented Iikewife before the Queen at Greenwich, by the Children of Paul's on New-Tear's- Day. See the Story of Iphis and Ianthe, in Ovid Metamorph. Lib. 9. Tab. 12, foe. Love's Metamorphofis, a Paftoral 4.to. 1601. Firft play'd by the Children of Paul's, and afterwards by her Majefty's Children of the Chappel. The Maid's Metamorphofis, a Comedy 4to. 1600. Afted fundry times by the Children of Paul's. Mother Bombie, a pleafant conceited Comedy (fays the Title) printed 121m. 1632. and fundry times play'd by the Children of Paul's. Mydaii a Comedy, 12mo. 162,2. This was alfo play'd before the Queen on Twelfth Day at Night, Apuleius has writ this Story at large in his Aureus Afinus. See alfo Natales Comes, Galtruchius's Hift. of the Heathen Gods, and Ovid's Metamorph. Lib. n. Sapho and Phaon, a Comedy, 12mo. 1632. Prefented before the Queen on ShroveTuefday, and afterwards at the Black_Fryars. Plot Ovid Epift. Woman in the Moon, a Comedy, 4to. 1667. Six of the above Plays are printed together 12mo. and publifiied by one Mr.Blount, called Court Comedies •, the other three are printed fingle in 4to. Mr. Lilly alfo writ a Book called, Eupheus and his England, 4to. at that time much efteemed. Thomas 88 Known AUTHORS. L Thomas Lodge. •T'His Author we find was a Do dor of Phyfick, in the Time of * Queen Elizabeth, who, during his Study at Cambridge, writ feveral pieces of Poetry •, among the reft, Two Plays. A Lookjng-Glafi for London and England, a Tragedy, 4to. 1593, One Green joined with our Author towards compleating this Play, which is founded on the Story of Jonas and the Ninevites, in the Holy Scripture. The Wounds of Civil War■, or, The Tragedies nf Maims andScylla. Plot from Plutarch in vit. Mar. Silla: fee alfo Awrelius Vi&or, Eutrqfius, Veil. Paterculus, Saluftius, and T. Livius. Sir WiUiam Lower. A Cavalier that left thefe Nations during the Civil Wars, and, in Holland, gave himfelf the Diverfion of Poetry 5 among the reft, fix Plays. The Amorous Phantafm, a Tragi-Comedy, 12mo. printed at the Hague, 1658. tranflated fromQuinault's Le Fantme Amoreux. The Inchanted Lovers, a Paftoral, 12mo. printed alfo at the Hagues i <5 58. Horatius, a Roman Tragedy, 4to. 16$6. tranflated from Cor* Tieille; confult Dion. Hallicarnafceus, Cajfiodorus, T. Livius, and L. Florus. The Martyr-, or, Polyeutte, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1655. For the Sto¬ ry, fee Coeffeteau Hijl. Rom. Surius de Vit is SanZlorum, &c. Noble Ingratitude, a Paftoral Tragi-Comedy, 12mo. London, 16$2- tranflated from the French of Monlieur Quinault. Ph&nix in her Flames, a Tragedy, 4to, 1639. This was the firfl Ehe Author writ, and publifhed before he was a Knight. Thomas Lupon. AL L I know of him is, That 'tis faid he writ this one Play, called, All for Money, a Tragedy, 4to. M. Lewh Known AUTHORS. M ' 89 M Lewis Macchin. THIS Author liv'd in the Time of King Charles the Fir ft, and writ one Play, called, l1:e Dumb Knight, a Comedy, 4^0. 1633. Afted by the Children of his Majefty's Revels. Compare this Play with one called, The Queen or, The Excellency of her Sex : fee alfo, The Complaifant Companion, 8vo. and 12wo. and Bandello's Novels, Tom. 1. Nov. 13, 1658. alfo printed fol. and 8vo. The City Match, a Comedy, 4to. Oxon, 16$8. printed alfo Fol. and 8vo. This Comedy was afted before their Majefiies at White- Hall, and divers times afterwards at Blaci^ Fryars, with great Ap- plaufe. Thefe two Plays are ufually bound together. This Author publifhed divers other Books as part of Lucian\ Dialogues, Eng. Fol. divers Sermons, \to. and a Poem on the Victo¬ ry over the Dutch, 1665, <&c. Mrs. Delarivier Manley. < *THis Lady has very happily diftinguifh'd her felf from the reft of her Sex, and gives us a living Proof of what we might rea- fonably expert from Womankind, if they had the Benefit of thofe artificial Improvements of Learning the Men have, when by the meer Force of Nature they fo much excel. Rules indeed are but the Leading-firings to fupport and carry the Weaker, and more unobferving Heads, and which thofe of a ftrong Genius and Pene¬ tration will have no need of, fince a juft Confideration of Nature will conduft them with more Eafe and Succefs. Of this our pre- fent Authrefs is an evident Proof, for in the Two Plays fhe has al¬ ready publifhed, we find no part of Art wanting, but what is the Mechanick Part, and by much the leaffc valuable. There is a Force and a Fire in her Tragedy, that is the Soul that gives it Life, and for want of which, mod of our Modern Tragedies are heavy, lan¬ guid, unmoving, and dull. In her Comedy there is an eafy Free¬ dom of adding, which confefTes a Converfation in the Authrefs no lefs genteel and entertaining. This Lady was born in the Ifle of Jerfey, her Father, Sir Roger Manley, being then Governor of it-, a Gentleman of a double Merit, both the Gown, and the Sword claiming no fmall fliare in his Glory, and the Republick of Learn- f Hift. andf Anpiquip. Oxon. Lib. 2. p. 282. ing Known AUTHORS; M 91 ing ow'dasmuch to his Wit and Judgment, in thofe Books which he was pleafed to publifh, as his King and Country to his Loyalty, Valour and Conduft. And well might our Uelarivier prove a Mufe, being begot by fuch a Father. She has as yet given us but two Plays, of which in their Order: The Royal Mijchiefj a Tragedy, 4to. Afted by his Majefty's Ser¬ vants, at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, 1696. and dedicated to his Grace, William, Duke of Devonjlnre, foe. The Story, as (he owns, is originally taken from Sir John Chardins Travels, but has receiv'd this Advantage, that the Criminals are here punifh'd for their Guilt, who in the Story efcape; a Poetick Jultice, which fought ever to be obferved in all Plays■, for a Juft Audience could never have been pleas'd with the Profperity of HomaU, and Lea- van, after fo very criminal an Amour. I cou'd here give the Rea¬ der a Proof how well the Rules of Ariftotle are obferv'd in this Tragedy, by a Lady who never read him; and how juft all her Metaphors and Allegories are: but that wou'd exceed the Bounds I am prefcribed by the Model I'm obliged to build on. I lhall there¬ fore proceed to The Loft Loveror, The Jealous Husband, a Comedy, 4to. afted at the Theatre Royal by his Majefty's Servants, 1696. To this Play is no E pi file Dedicatory, and the Preface informs us of its ill Suc- cefs, which we cou'd never gather from the reading of it; and if we wou'd, as we ought, give any Allowance for the Sex that wrote it, the Time it was wrote in, and its being the firft Eflay of that Nature, we fhou'd agree with her, that it met with a much feve- rer Fate than it deferved. This Lady has Publifh'd feveral other Books, which have not her Name to 'em, and which, for that Reafon, I fhall forbear to men¬ tion their Titles. Coftfio Manuch. A Major in the King's Army, in the late Civil War, and Author of two Plays, call'd, The juft General, a Tragedy, 4to. 16so. This the Author de- fign'd for the Stage, but was not ever atted. The Loyal Lovers, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1652. The Author, in this Play, reprefents divers of the Committee Men and their In¬ formers. Gervafe Known AUTHORS. M Gervafe Markham. THis Author was Son to Robert Markham, of Cotham in Notting. ham [hire, Elq; was born in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and liv'd to have a Captain's Command in the Civil W:ar, under King Charles the Firft. He writ curious Pieces of Husbandry, Horfe- manfl-.ip, and War, and one Play, in which one Sampfon a flitted, intituled, Herod and Antipater, a Tragedy, 4to. 1622. Plot from Jofephus Hifi. Jews, Book 14, 15, &c. Spondanus, Baronii Ann. Saliah Tortiiel, &c. Chrijlopher Martovc. A Famous Poet of Queen Elizabeth and King James's Time, con¬ temporary with the Immortal Shakejfear, was Fellow-Aftor with Heyrnod, and others, he writ a Poem called, Hero and Leanderj much commended^ as alfo thefe feven Plays following: Dr. Fauftut hi* tragical Hiftory, 4to. 166 r, being thelaft Editi¬ on, printed with the Addition of many Scenes. Plot, Cmerani Opera. Subfc. Cent. 1. Cap. 70. Wierm de Prttftig. Dain, that 'tis none of his, Jo Jon Mafoti. •THis Poet was Matter of Arts in King James the Firft's Time, and writ one Play call'd, MuleftJJes, the Tu\\-, a Tragedy, 4to 1610. Afted by the Chilr dren of his Majefty's Revels. This Author, in his Title Page, calls it, A Worthy Tragedy, and had a great Conceit of its meeting with Succefs, adding in the Front, this Sentence of Horace, Sume Superbiam qu&fitam merit is. Philip Maffenger. a Poet who was born at Salisbury in the Reign of Charles the Firft, his Father liv'd and dy'd in the Service of the then Ear! pf Montgomery, and fent his Son, our Poet, to St. Alban-Hall, in Oxon, where he remain'd a Student for three or four Years. He was intimate with Rowley,.Middleton,.Field,Decker, and even Fletcher. He left this World in March, 1669. and on the feventeenth Day of that Month, was buried in St. Mary Overies-Church in Southward, in the Grave where Mr. Fletcher had been before buried. In Sit Ajlon Cocl^ains Epigrams you may find an Epitaph on him, Bool^h Ep. 100. He writ fourteen Plays intire, and joined with Middleton and Rowley in fome others of which in their Order: The Bajhful Lover, a Comedy, 8vo. 1 <5$$. Afted at the private Houfe in Blacl^Fryars, by his Majefty's Servants, with good Ap- plaufe. The Bondman, a Comedy, 4to. 1538. Afted at the Cocl^Fit in Drury-Lane, by the moll excellent Princefs, the Lady Elizabeth, her Servants; Dedicated to the Right Honourable, Philip, Earl of Montgomery. The reducing the Slaves by the Sight of the Whip?, is taken from the Story of the Scythian Slaves. The City Madam, a Comedy, 4to. 1659. Afted at the Private Houfe in Blacl^fry^rs, with great Applaufe, and Dedicated to the truly Known AUTHORS. M 95 truly Noble and Virtuous Lady, Ann, Countefs of Oxon. This has been e(teemed a good Play. The Duke of Mi Haiti, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1638. as it had been often afted by his Majefty's Servants, at the Blac^-fryars. Plot from Jo- fephus's Hift. Jews, Book_i$. Chap. 4. The Emperor of the Eaft, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1632. Afted at the Blacl^-fryars and Globe, by his Majefty's Servants: Dedicated to the Right Honourable, John, Lord Mohun, Baron of Oke-hampton. Plot from Socrates, Lib. 7. Nicephorus, Lib. 14. Baronius, 1foe. The fatal Dowry, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1632. Afted at the Blacl^fry- ars, by his Majefty's Servants; Mr. Field, an Author before-menti¬ oned, joyn'd with him in this Play. Charlois Ranfoming his Fa¬ ther's Corps by his own Imprifonment, taken from Cymon, in Val. Max. Lib. 5. Cap. 4. Ex. 9. The Great Duke of Florence, a Comedy, 4 to. 1636. The Title calls it, a Comical Hiftory, often prefented with good Allowance, by her Majefty's Servants, at the Ph&nix in Drury-Lane. The De¬ dication to the truly Honoured, and his Noble Favourer, Sir Robert Wifeman, of Thorrells-Hall, in Ejjex. Plot from Speed, Stow, and other our Engli/h Chronicles, in the Reign of King Edgar. The Guardian, a Comedy, 8vo. 16$5. The Title alfo calls this, a Comical Hiftory, often afted at the private Houfe in Blacl^fryars, by his late Majefty's Servants, with great Applaufe. Plot from Boccace s Novels, Day 8. Nov. 7. and from the Cimmerian Matron, 8vo. The Maid of Honour, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 167,2. This was oftentimes afted with good Allowance, at the Ph&nix in Drury- Lane, by her Majefty's Servants 5 and dedicated to Sir Francii Fo- liambe, and SirTho. Bland. The Play is recommended by Sir Ajlon Cokain, who prefix'd a Copy of Verfes thereto. A Neve Way to pay Old Debts, a Comedy, 4to. 1633. often afted at the Ph&nix in Drury-Lane, by the Queen's Majefty's Servants -y and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Robert, Earl of Carnarvan. Sir Thomas Jay, and Sir Henry Moody have very much commended this Play. The Old Law. Vide Middleton. The Pitture, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 167,6. Afted at the Globe and Blacksfyars Play-Houfcs, by his Majefty's Servants; and de¬ dicated to the Noble Society of the Inner-Temple. Plot from the Fortunate deceived, and Unfortunate Lovers, Nov. 4. of the Deceit ved Lovers. The Renegado, a Comedy, 4to. 1630. Afted at the private Play- Houfe, in Drury-Lane, by her Maiefty's Servants 5 dedicated to the Right Honourable, George Harding, Baron of Barkfey-Cajlle, and Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath. Mr. Shirley, foe. have commended this Play by Copies of Verfeso The 5>6 Known AUTHORS. M The Roman AUor, a Tragedy, 4to. 1629. Atted at the private Houfe in the BlacJ^fryars, by the King's Majefly's Servants dedi¬ cated to Sir Philip Knivet, Sir Tho. Jay, and Tho. Bellingham, of Nervtimber, in Efq; This Play is recommended by divers Copies of Verfes from Ford, Goff', May, and other Dramatick Poets. Plot from Tacitus, Aurelius, ViZtor, and Suetonius in the Life of Vomitian. A Very Woman, or the Prince of farent, a Tragi-Comedy, 8m 15 $5. The Plot of this refembles that of the Objiinate Lady, writ by Sir AJlon Cokaw. The Virgin Martyr, a Tragedy, 4to. 1661. Afted by his Majefly's Servants with great Applaufe. Mr. Decker affifted our Author in this Play. Plot from Valefius, Rofaedius, Eufebii Hi/}. Lib. 8, Cap. 17. The Vmatural Combat, a Tragedy, 4to. 1639. prefented by the King's Majefty's Servants, at the Glsbe •, and dedicated to his much honoured Friend, Anthony Sentliger, of Oukham in Kent, Efq; This Play is without Prologue or Epilogue. The Bafbful Loner, the Guardian, and the Very Woman, are print¬ ed together in one Volume, 8vo. Thomas May. A Gentleman of a good Family in Sujjex, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; he was fome Years a Fellow-Commoner of Sidney- College in Cambridge, whence removing to London, and the Court, he .grew to an Intimacy with Endymion Porter, Efq; and others•, but difgufted with the little Encouragement he met with, which is indeed no Place for Reward of Merit, he retired. In the Year 1652. he died fuddenly, being Five and Fifty Years Old, and lies buried in the Weft Side of the North Ifle of Weftminfier-Abby, near Mr. Cambden. But now to his Plays. Agrippina, Emprefs of Rome, her Tragedy, 12m 1639. In the firft Aft of this Play, the Printer committed an Error, by print¬ ing fome few Pages twice over. Plot, fee Tacitus, Suetonius, and Petron'acs Arbiter. Antigone, the Thebane Princefs, her Tragedy,81/0.1 £31.Dedicated to the moft Worthily Honoured Endymion Porter, Efq; Plot from ■Sophocles's Antigone, and Seneca! s The baa j fee alfo Statinss The- bait. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, her Tragedy, 12mo. 1639. Afted fome Years before printed, and dedicated to the accompIiOi'd Sic Kenelm Digby. Plot from Appian de Bella Civ. L. Florus, Lib. 4- Suetonius in vit. Augufl. and Plutarchus in Vit. M. Antomu he has alfo made bold with Calimachus)s Epig. on Timon, Known AUTHORS. M 97 The Heir, a Tragi-Comcdy, 4to. 1633. A^ed by the Company of Revels. This was accounted an ingenious and modeft Play, and much commended by Mr. Thmas Carew, who has a Copy of Verfes to that purpofe, printed with the Play. The Old Couple, a Comedy, 4*0. 16$1. This Play has tteen for¬ merly in repute, and the chief Dsfign of it feems to be againft Co- veteoufnefs. Two of the above Plays, (vi%!) Agrippina and Antigone, are ufu- ally bound together in a fmall Volume, 12mo. This Author has publifh'd aTranflationof Lucans Pharfalia, %vo. 1635. and Virgils Georgicks, with Annotations, 1622. alfo a Hiftory of the late Ci¬ vil Wars in England, which he calls, A Breviary. Robert Mead, HE liv'd in the Time of King James and King Charles the Firft, was of Chrift-Church-College, Oxon, and writ one Play, which was publifh'd after his Death. The Title of his Play is, The Combat of Love and Friend/hip, a Comedy, formerly prefent- ed by the Gentlemen of Chrijl-Church in Oxont 4 to. printed at Londonj 16 $4. Matthew Medboum. AN Aftor in the Duke's Company, being a Papift and commit¬ ted to Newgate about the Popifli Plot, where he died; but fome Years before he publifhed one Play, called, Tartuffe ■, or, the French Puritan, a Comedy, 4to. 1670. A&ed at the Theatre Royal; and dedicated to the Right Henourable, Henry, Lord Howard, of Norfolk. Tranflated from the French of Molliere. Thomas Meriton. Scribler liv'd fince the Reftauration, and accounted the * dullefl and moft impotent of Dramatick Poets in his Time, he publifh'd Two Plays: Love and War, a Tragedy, 4to. 1658. and dedicated to the truly Noble, Judicious Gentleman, and his moft efteemed Brother, Mr. Geo. Meriton. I do not find this Play was ever afted, or deferve* afting. H 98 mown AU xnv^ivo. ivi The Wandring Lover, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 16$2. The Title makes you believe it was acted feveral times privately, at iundry Places, by the Author and his Friends, with great Applaufe; and the Dedication is to the Ingenious, Judicious, and much Honoured Gentleman, Franck Wright, Efqj Tho. Middleton, vide Fletcher. •T^His Author liv'd in the Time of King James and King Charkt the Firft-, was Contemporary^ and AiTociate with Dcckar, Rowley, Maffinger, Fletcher and Johnfon. Under the Title of John- fon} you have an Account that he join'd with him and Fletcher, in one Play, call'd, the Widow. He was afMed by Ma finger and Rowley, in writing another Play, call'd, the Old Law: by Deckar, in the Roaring Girl, and by Mr. Rowley, in three others; befides thofe he writ and publifh'd, entirely his own. Any thing for a Quiet Life, a Comedy, 4to. 1662. This was not printed till that Year, tho1 long before afted at the Blacl^Fry- ars, with good Succefs. Blurt, Mr. Confiable •, or, the Spaniard's Night-Walk.] 4*0.1602. Afted fundry times privately, by the Children of Paul's. Our Au¬ thor's Name is not in the Title Page •, but neverthelefs, on good Grounds, attributed to him by Kirlynan, foe. The Changeling, a Tragedy, 4*0. 1653- Afted at the Private Houfe in Drury-Lane, and Salisbury-Court, with great Applaufe. This is one of thofe Plays in which he was affifted by Mr. Rowley, For the Plot, confult the Story of Alfemero, and Beatrice Joanna, in God's Revenge againjl Murther, fol. writ by Dr. Reynolds. The Chaji Maid in Cheapfide, a Comedy, 4to. 1620. This is en¬ titled, A pleafant conceited Comedy, often afted at the Smn on the Banl^Side, by the Lady Elizabeth, her Servants. A fair Quarrel, a Comedy, 4to. 1622. This is another of thofe Plays, in which Mr. Rowley join'd, and is dedicated to the nobly difpos'd, and faithful Ereafted, Robert Grey, Efq^ one of the Grooms of his Highnefs's Chamber. Plot from Cynthia Girald't, a Novel, Dec. 4. Nov. 5. " The Family of Love, a Comedy, 4to. i6o2. Afted by the Chil¬ dren of his Majefty's Revels. A Game at Chejl, a Comedy, 4to. Afted at the Globe on the Bant^Side. The Game being play'd before Loyola, between one of the church of England, and the other of the Church of Rome, •the latter lofes. . Inner , Known AUTHORS. M S9 ) Inner-Temple Mafque; or, Mafque of Heroes, 4ts. 1640. prefent- ed by Gentlemen of the fame ancient and noble Houfe, as an En- t tertainment for many eminent Ladies. Tho' this Play was writ about Twenty Years before printed, yet Mrs. Behn approv'd of it fo much, that when fhe writ her Comedy called, the City Heirefi, flie borrowed part thereof. A Mad World, my Mafiers, a Comedy, 4^0. This Play is faid to be often afted, with good Applaufe. The Mayor of Queenbomugh, a Comedy, 4to. 1661. often afted '[ with much Applaufe, by his Majefty's Servants. You have in this Play, feveral Dumb Shews. Plot, fee the Reign of Vor tiger, ia Qu Chefne, Stow, Speed, and other Englifh Chronicles. Michaelmas-Term, a Comedy, 4to. I know not whether ever afted. More Defemblers befides Women, a Comedy, 8m 1557. No Wit, no Help like a Woman s, a Comedy, 8vo. 1657. This and the other preceding Play, with Women, beware Women, may be had bound together, in a fmall 8vo. or 1 imo. , The Old Law or, A New Way to Pleaje you, 4to. 16 $6. The Title calls it, An Excellent Comedy, afted before the King and Queen, with great Applaufe. Mr. Rowley and Majjenger join'd with him in this Play. The Ph&nix, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1607, Afted feveral times f by the Children of Paul's, before his Majefty, with good Ap- " plaufe. See the Story writ by Mignel de Cervantes, called, the , Force of Love, being a Spanifl) Novel. The RoaringGirl or, MallCut-Purfe, a Comedy, 4*0. i5ii. as it has lately been afted on the Fortune Stage, by the Prince's . Players. Mr. Langbain fays, he never faw this Play, and Ranks it under Middleton •, but I take mofl part of it to be Dec^afs, who 1 joyn'd in it. This Play has an odd fort of an Epiftle Dedicatory, to the Comick Play-Readers, Venery and Laughter. 1 The Spanijh Gipjies, a Comedy, 4to. 1661. afted both at the Private Houfe in Drury-Lane, and Salisbury-Court, with great Ap¬ plaufe. In this Play he was join'd by Mr. Rowley. See part of the Plot in a Spanifh Novel, call'd, the Force of Blood, writ by M. de Cervantes. A Tricl^ t9 catch the Old One, a Comedy, 4to. 1616. The Ti¬ tle fays, it has been often in Aftion at JW'sand Blacl^Fryars, be¬ fore their Majefties. This was, in thofe Times, accounted a good f Play. i Triumphs of Love and Antiquity, a Mafque, 4to. 161 p. Dedica¬ ted to the Right Honourable, Sir William Cockain, Knight, then Lord Mayor of the City of London, and Lord General of his Ma¬ yfly's Military Forces. This, tho' accounted by other Catalogues H 8 a i6o Known AUTHORS. M a Mafque, is little more than Speeches fpcke, as now in thefe Days, to the Lord Mayors, in Pageants, i&c. Women, beware Women, a Tragedy, 8 m 1657. See f/ippolito and Ifabella, a Romance, 8vo. This is ufually bound wkh two others of his before-mentioned, 8m The World tof/d at Tennif, a Mafque, 4to. 1620. faid to be di¬ vers times afted to the Contentment of many Noble and Worthy Speftators, by the Prince's Servants. The Dedication is to the truly Noble, Charles, then Lord Howard, Baron of Effingham-, and to his Vertuous and Worthy Wife, the Right Honourable, Mary, then Lady Effingham, the Eldeft Daughter of Sir William Cochin, Knight, then Lord Mayor of London, &c. Tour Five Gallants, a Comedy 4to. Afted at the Blac\-Fryars. A Play printed without any Date, and in all probability, the fir ft he ever writ. John Milton. AN Author of that Excellence of Genius and Learning, that none of any Age or Nation, I think, has excel'd him: du¬ ring the Civil Wars, and after the Death of King Charles the Firft, he was advanced to confiderable Ports in the Government, as Under Secretary of State, Hanibal and Scipio, called, An Hiftorical Tragedy, 4ft. 1537, but afted firft in the Year 163 5. by the Queens Ma jefty's Servants, at the private Houfe in Drury-Lane. Plot founded on Hiftory j fee the Lives of Hanibal and Scipio, in Corn. Nepos, and Plutarch-, fee alfo Livy, L. Flonu, foe. An Entertainment on the Prince's Birth-Day, 4fo. Th'S is ranked under Ndbbs, in Mr. Langbains Catalogue, as alio in Kirlynans and •thers, but omitted in Mr. Langbains Account of the Poets, for what Reafon I know not. Microcofmos, a Mafque, 4to. 1637. prefented (fays the Title ) with general liking, at the private Houfe in Salisbury-Court, and here fet down; according to the Intention of the Author. The Dedication is to the Service and Delight of all truly Nobje, Gene¬ rous, and Honefl Spirits. This is a Mafque which has good Mora¬ lity in it, and (as I find) was commended by Brome, and others. Spring's Glory, Vindicating Love by Temperance, a Mafque, 4to. 1638. This has much of Morality alfo, and is commended by Mr. Chamberlain, a then noted Poet, and others. It's dedicated to Peter BaO, Efq. There is joined with this A Prefentatm, as in¬ tended for Prince Charles's Birth-Day, (vi^.) May 29. which, in other Catalogues has been ffciled an Interlude. There are befides, many Poems, Epigrams, Elegies and Epithalamiums. Tottenham-Caiirt, a Comedy, 4to. printed 1638. but afted five Years before, in Salisbury-Court: And is dedicated to the Wor- fliipful, Will. Milts, Efq. Vnfirtunate Mother, a Tragedy, 4*0.1640. It is dedicated to the Right Worfhipful, Richard Brathrvait, Efq. Some of the Au¬ thor's Friends beftowed commendatory Verfes on this Play, tho" it did not bear afting. The Woman-Hater Arraigned, a Comedy, and Charles the Firjft a Tragedy, have been by Philips and Winjlanly, plac'd to this Au¬ thor, but without any Ground or Reafon: for which fee among the Anonymous Plays, hereafter mentioned. Thomas Nap. A Contemporary with the former, tho' of a snore eminent Cha- rafter j he w^s bred at Cambridge, and writ two Plays8 called, * - / H 4 P'A ie>4 Known AUTHORS. N Dido, Queen of Carthage, a Tragedy, 4to. This was not wholly writ by him, for Marlon did fomewhat aflift therein. The Story from Virgils JEneids, lib. 1, (&* 4. Summers Lafi Will and Teftament, a Comedy, 4to. This Author has writ divers other fmall Pieces, both in Verfe and Profe ; but not that Play of See me, and fet me not, as alledged by Mr. Philips and Winftanley. Alexander Nevile. A Young Gentleman, that at fixteen undertook to tranflate the Oedipus of Senecay and liv'd in the Reign of Queen Eli¬ zabeth. OedipMy a Tragedy, 4to. printed 1581. but was Englifhed by him about twenty Years before, and is dedicated to Dr.Wottonf then one of the Queen's Majefty's Privy Council. Robert Nevile. A Fellow of Kings-College, Cambridgey in King Charles the Firfts Time, and writ a Play, entituled, The Poor Scholar, a Comedy, \to. 1662. written divers Years before printed, but I do not find it was ever afted, tho recom¬ mended by fome Copies of Verfes by three other Poets of thatTime. William, Duke of Newcajile. MR. Langbain has always, a good Word for Quality, he can fee no Blemifh in that Perfon that has a Title, tho' he be fo iharp lighted in all thofe of a lower Station; and he is fo tranfport- ed on this worthy Nobleman,that he baulks theCuriofity of his Read¬ er, for fome Account of his Life, to vent a elumfey Flattery. He Was of the Illuftrious and Ancient Family of Cavendifh, a zealous Follower of the Royal Caufe, and with it exil'd during hisAboad at Antwerp, he writ a Book of Horfemanjhip. He was an Encou- ragerof Poetry, and a Poet himfelf. You may find his Life at large, written by his Dutchefs. We have four Comedies of his in Print as the Country Captam, a Comedy, 8vo. 1649. It was afted at the Blac^-Fryars, by his Majefty's Servants, with good Applaufej and sXually bound up with another of his, called, The Variety. The Humorom Lovers, a Comedy, 4to. 1677. Afted by his Roy¬ al Highoefs the Duke of Tories Servants, with great Applaufe. ■ * •' ■ fbe Known AUTHORS. N ioj The Triumphant Widow j or, The Medley of Humours, a Comedy, 4*0. 1*77. and afted by his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Turk's Ser¬ vants. This was efteemed a good Play, and Mr. Shadwell had fo good an Opinion of it, that he borrowed a great part thereof, to compleat his Comedy, call'd, Bury-Fair. The Variety, a Comedy, 8m 1549. prefented by his Majefty's Servants at the Black-Fry ars. Tho' the Duke's Name he not to this, or The Country Captain, which is ufually bound with it; yet, by Mr. Cartmighfs Works, and others, we find Satisfaction enough to believe them his. Margaret, Dutchefs of Newcajlle. TH E Honourable Confort of the fore-mentioned Duke, whofe Plays and Poetry have made fome Noife in the World, and have at Ieaft met with Mr. Langbain for an Admirer and Defender. I know not her Family, nor Time of Birth or Death. She has publiflied fix and Twenty Plays, reckoning thofe writ in two Parts, each of them for two. They are ufually bound in two Vo¬ lumes fol. 1662, and 1668. Their Names follow : The Apocriphal Ladies, a Comedy, fol. 1662. This Play is not divided into Afts, but has variety of Scenes, to the Number of three and twenty. Bell in Campo, a Tragedy, in two Parts, fol. 1662. In the Iaft Part you may find feveral Copies of Verfes writ by his Grace, the Duke, her Husband. The Blazing World, a Comedy, fol. 1668. This, tho ftil'd a Comedy, yet was never perfected by the Authorefs. The Bridalls, a Comedy, fol. 1668. The Comical Hajh, a Comedy, fol. 1662. This Play was, by Accident, omitted in Mx.Langbairis Catalogue of Plays, and igno- rantly by other Catalogue Publifhers. The Convent of Pleafure, a Comedy, fol. 166$. The Female Accademy, a Comedy, fol. 1662. Lady Contemplation, in two Parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. The Duke aflifted in fome Scenes of both Parts. Love's Adventures, in two Parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. The Duke writ alfo the Epithalamium and Song in the laft Part. Matrimonial Troubles, in two Parts, the firft Comedy, the Iafl Tragedy, fol. 1662. Nature's Three Daughters (viz.) Beauty, Love, and Wit, in two parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. ' The Prefence, a Comedy, fol. i£<58. The Scenes defigned for tbi? Play, were fo numerous, that the Dutchefs thought it would lengthen it too much, therefore printed them fepejrately. ■■ " Public^ Known AUTHORS. N Public^ Wooing, a Comedy, fol. 1662. Two Scenes and two Songs at the End of this Play, with divers Speeches therein, are writ by his Grace, the Duke of Kewcafile. Religions, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. 1662. Several Wits, a Comedy, Fol. 1662. The Sociable Companions-, or, The Female Wits, a Comedy, foU 1668. The Vnnatural Tragedy, fol. 1662. The Prologue and Epilogue of this Play, were writ by his Grace, the Duke of Kewcafile. Wits Cabal, in two Parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. The Epilogue of the fir ft Part was alfo writ by his Grace, the Duke of Akw- cqflle. Youth's Glory, and Death's Banquet, in two Parts, a Tragedy, fol. 1662. Two Scenes, and the Speeches of the firft Part, as alio the Songs and Verfes in the fecond Part, were alfo writ by his Grace, the Duke of Nemdflle. Befides thefe Dramatick Works, fhe has writ divers other Pie¬ ces; as, The Life of the Duke of Ktw-Caflle, \66-j. alfo the fame in Latin, 1668. Philosophical Fancies, 1653. A Volume of Poems, 16$%. Philofophical Opinions^ i<5$5. Natures Figure, drawn by Fan¬ cies Pencil, to the Life ^ at the End of which was her own Life,i6$6. A Volume of Orations, 1662. Philofophical Letters, 1664. Two hundred and eleven Sociable Letters, 1654. All which Volumes are printed in fol. Thomas Newton. ONE of the Tranflators of Seneca, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, he tranflated one entirely, and club'd with Jajper Heywood and Alexander Nevile in the reft; but publifh'd them all together, with a Dedication to Sir Thomas Henage, then Trea- furer of her Majefty's Chamber. Philips, in his Theatrum Poetmm, afcribes one other Play to this Author, call'd, Tamberlain the Great, which is none of his, but Mario's. ThebaU, a Tragedy, 4to. Tranflated from Seneca, as before inti¬ mated, it has no Chorm, and is the (horteft of all that Author's Tragedies. Thomas Norton, and Tho* Sackvtk. TTHefe Twin Authors Iiv'd in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, the latter was Lord Bucfymft, and in 1 Jac. created Earl of Dorfet, Mar. 13. 1503. ferrex Known AUTHORS. O 107 Prnex and Ponex, a Tragedy, 8vo. firfl printed 166$. butfincc by the Title of Gorboduc, a Tragedy,4ft). re-printed, 1 §90. This Play was prefent- ed by the Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple, before the Queen's mod excellent Majefty • and accounted an excellent Play, full of Mol¬ lify. Plot from our Britifh Chronicles. Thomas Nuce. AN Author likewife in Queen Elizabeth's Time, who tranflated one of Seneca s Plays, called, Ottawa, a Tragedy, 4/0. Confult Sueton. in vit, Claud. TacitW, lib. 12. c. 14. Dm. Nero, &c. O Thomas Otrcay, TH E Place of Mr. Otrvaf s Birth I know not but he was of a good Family, and has a* Nephew a Captain in the prefent Service. He was bred at ChriJbChurch, in Oxford, and thence remov'd to London, not going on with the Defign of being of the Clergy. Tho' at firfl he met with but little Encou¬ ragement here, but what a fmall Allowance and Sallery from the Play-houfe afforded (for he was firfl: a Player) but after he had writ Von Carlos, he began to have a Name, having in that Play difco- veredfome Touches of a Tallent, very few of our Englifh Poets have been Mafter of, in moving the Paffions, that are, and ought to be the Aim of all Tragick Poets, Terror and Pity■, and in which none equal'd him, in his two following Tragedies of The Orphan, and Venice Prefervd. He was a Jovial Companion, and a great Lo¬ ver of the Bottle, and Particularly of Punch; the Iafl thing he made before his Death, being an excellent Song on that Liquor. We have in Print of his, ten Plays; another more excellent than all of them, is, by fome malicious or defigning Perfon fupprefs'd, either hereafter to fet up a Reputation to themfelves, by owning it, or to procure a Profit by felling it for their own. Alcibiades, a Tragedy, 4to. 167$. afted at the Duke's Theatre. The Dedication is to the Right Honourable,Charles,Earl of Middle- jex. This" was the firfl Produft of our Author. The Plot from v - '■ Corn» ioU Known AUTHORS. O Corn. Nepes, and Plutarch, both in the Life of Alcibiades •, but he has varied from the Story, making Alcibiades a more fcrupulous Man than the Hiftorians do, who accufe him of Adultery with the X^ueen of Agis, foe. The Atheijl; or the fecond Part of The Soldier's Fortune, a Come¬ dy, 4to. 1584. The Dedication is to the Lord Eland, Eldeft Son to the Marquefs of Hallifax. Plot, in Part, taken from The Invifible Mijlrefs, in Scarrons Novels. The Cheats of Scapin, a Farce, 4to. 1667? afted at the Duke's Theatre: It is printed with Titw and Berenice, a Tragedy after mentioned, writ by the fame Author. 'Tis tranflated from Mol- liere, which, originally is Terrences Phormio. Cam Mariws, hn Hifiory and Fall, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. afted at the Duke's Theatre ; and its Dedication to the Lord Vifcount Faulkland. Part of it ftollen from Shakefpear's Romeo and Juliet. Plot from Plutarch, in his Life of Cam Marin*, and Lucans Phar- falia, Book 2. Don Carlos, Prince of Spain, a Tragedy, 4to. 1679. The Dedi¬ cation is to his Royal Highnefs, the Duke. This is the fecond Play our Author ever writ, and gain'd him great Reputation. Plot from the Novel fo called, 12mo. you may alfo confult the Spanifh Chronicles in the Life of Philip the Seeond. Friendfhip in Fafhion, a Comedy, 4to. 1678. afted at the Duke's Theatre, with good Applaufe. Its Dedication is to the Right Ho¬ nourable, Charles, Earl of Dorfet and Middlesex. The Orphan ; or, The Unhappy Marriage, a Tragedy, 4to. i68q. afted at the Duke's Theatre. Its Dedication to her Royal Highnefs, the Dutchefs. This is acccounted an excellent Play, and often afted of Jate Days. Plot from the Hifiory of Brandon, p. 17. and The English Adventures, a Novel, The Soldiers Fortune, a Comedy, 4to. 1681. afted by their Roy¬ al Highnefles Servants, at the Duke's Theatre. The Lady Dunce, making her Husband Agent, is from Moliere Efcole de Mans, foe, See alio Boccace's Novelst Day 3. Nov. 3. and Scarrons Comical Romance, p. 227. Titus and Berenice, a Tragedy, 4to. 1677. to which is joined The Cheats of Scapin, afted at the Duke's Theatre; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, John, Earl of Rochefter. Tranflated from Monneur Racine; it wants two Afts of the ufual Number. The Story of Titus and Berenice you may find in Suetoniw, Vioni- fiHf, Jofephw, (fyc. Venice Prefervd; or, A Plot difcovered a Tragedy, 4to. i<588f afted at the Duke's Theatre; dedicated to the Dutchefs of Portf- month. This is an incomparable Play, and often afted of latp Days. The Plot is taken from a little Book, printed 8vo. being an Account of the Confpiracy of the Spaniards againfl Venice. This Known AUTHORS. O 109 This Author writ a fmall Piece, called, The Poet's Complaint to his Mufe, 4to. 1680. alfoa Paftoral on King Charles the Second", which is publifh'd in Mrs. Behrfs Lycidas, Svo. p. 8r. and fince his Death, is printed a Tranflation of his from the French, called. The Hifiory of the TriumvirateSy 8vo. 1686. J. Oldmixon, THis Gentleman is of an ancient Family of Oldmixon, near Bridge- water in Somerfetjhire. As for the particulars of his Life, I can fay little of them, only that he has given the World a Pa¬ ftoral, called, Amintas, afted at the Theatre Royal. The Title Page lets us know, that it is taken from the Aminta of TaJJb, and the Pre¬ face informs us of the ill Succefs it met with on the Stage: which indeed cannot be attributed to the Englilh Author's Performance, which is as well as the Original wou'd allow *, but, with Submiflion to our Author's better Judgment, I mult needs fay, that Paftoral it felf, tho' never fo well writ, is not a Subjeft fit for fo long an Entertainment as that of the Stage. This the Ancients very well knew, and therefore they wifely confin'd it to a narrower Compafs, as is evident from the Idyllia of Theoaitw, and the Bucolics of Virgil: For the fedater Paflions (which our Author himfelf attri¬ butes to a Shepherd's Life) of thefe Innocent People reprefented in aPaftoral, cannot afford fo lively Pleafure to an Audience, as may ballance the Length of their Attention, that muft of neceflity grow languid, and tyr'd, with fo very calm an Emotion, which is ftill kept aftive by the more violent Paflions, proper for Tragedy, This extending of the ancient Paftoral to fo unreafonable a length was, as well as Farce, an Italian Invention, and not one jot the better, becaufe cover'd with fo great a Name as TaJJb's. I cou'd never find that Authority wou'd filence the Sentiments of Nature and Reafon-, and TaJJo, that has been guilty of Abfurdeties enough in his Epic Poem, muft not be fuppos'd infallible in his Paftoral. After all, I am of Opinion, that it is but a weak Refuge to fly to the Opinion or Tafte of a Foreign Nation, from the Judgment of our own; for Fm fatisfy'd that there are not fewer Men of Sence,in England,and a great many more of Learning,than Italy affords us.;4- minta might pleafe there, but if we judge by our Tafte of Poetry, and with ours by the Ancients, it pleas'd without Reafon, and on¬ ly perhaps for the Novelty, or, which is yet moft likely, becaufe it was fung in Italy, that Mufical Nation minding more the Perfor¬ mance of the Compofer, than Poet. All that can be faid for our Author is, that in an ill Choicej he has equal'd his Original, and in feme Places improy'd it. P. John no Known John Palfgrave. THIS Author was a Batchelor of Divinity, and Chaplain to King Henry the Eighth. He publifhed one PJay under the Title of Acolaftw, a Comedy, 4.to. 1540. dedicated to King Henry the Eighth •, tranflated from the Latin Play of the fame Name, writ by Guil. Fullonms, and printed in Old Englifh Character. 'Tis the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Peaps. A Scholar of Eaton School, who at feventen, writ a Play, called, Love in its Extafy, a Paftoral, 4to. 1649. but written ma¬ ny Years before 'twas printed. George Peel. •■"His Author was Mafter of Arts in Chritl-Church-College, Oxon, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, writ two Plays. David and Bethfiabe, their Love, with the Tragedy ofAbfalom, 4 to. 1599. This Play, as the Title fays, was divers times play'd on the Stage. Plot from Holy Scripture. Edward the firft, a Hiftory 4*0. 1593. This King was firnamed Long-Shankj, and the Play gives an Account of his return from the Holy Land, with the Life of Kewellin, Rebel in Wales • it alfo re¬ lates the Story of Queen Eleanors finking by Chairing-Crofs, and rifing again at Queen-Hit he, before called Potters-Hit he. See Graf¬ ton, Martin, HoU'mgfhead, Stow, and other Englifh Chronicles. The Tragedy of Alphovfm, Emperor of Germany, by miftake, plac'd to him, in fome Catalogues, is not his, but Chapman s. Mr?. Catharine Philips. SH E was, if I miftake not, born in Brecl^nocl^fhire, in Wales, Contemporary of Cowley, and much praifed by him. I muft confefs, I cannot but prefer Mr5. Behn infinitely before her; fhe feems Ktiown A UT HOR5. P 111 fcems to be a very cold Writer, while you may find in Aphra both Fire and Eafinefs, which Mrs. Philips wanted. She dy'd of the Small Pox, June, 22. 166^. Aged 31. Horace, a Tragedy, Fol. 1678. Tranflated from the French of Corneille. This Authrefs leaving the Play unfinifh'd at her Death-, Sir John Venham compleated it, by adding the fifth Aft■, after which, it was afted at Court by Perfons of Quality. Plot from Livy, lib. 1. c. 2. L. Florw, &c. Pompey, a Tragedy, fol. 1678. afted at the Duke's Theatre, with great AppJaufe. There was ufually at the End afted a Farce of Sir William Davenanfs, which you may find in his Play-Houfe to be Lett. The Earl of Orrery, and Countefs of Corlwere the Chief Inftruments of bringing this Play in Englifh,to light. Tranfla¬ ted alfo from Corneille, and Plot from Lucaris Pharfalia. Mrs. Mary Fix. ♦THis is a Lady yet living, and in this Poetick Age, When all Sex¬ es and Degrees venture on the Sock or Buskins, flie has boldly given us an EiTay of her Talent in both, and not without Succefs, tho' with little Profit to her felf. Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperor of the Turks, a Tragedy, afted at the Theatre Royal, 1696. 4to. and dedicated to Richard Min- chal, of Burton, E% This Play, if it want the Harmony of Num¬ bers, and the Sublimity of Expreffion, has yet a Quality, that at leaft ballances that Defeft, I mean the Paflions •, for the Diftrefs of Morena never fail'd to bring Tears into the Eyes of the Audience; which few Plays, if any fince Otways, have done; and yet, which is the true End of Tragedy. She informs us, that by miftake it was called Ibrahim the Thirteenth, when it ftiould have been called, Ibra¬ him the Twelfth, the Story you may find in Six Paul Ricaufs Con¬ tinuation of the Turkjfh Hijlory. The Innocent Mijhefs, a Comedy, afted at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by his Majefty's Servants, 1697. 4^. The Prologue and Epilogue writ by Mr. Motteux. This is a di¬ verting Play, and met with good Succefs, tho' afted in the hot Sea- fon of the Year, our Poetrefs has endeavoured to imitate the Eafi¬ nefs and Way of the Author of Vertue in Danger, and The Provo^d Wife. She has borrowed fome Incidents from other Plays; as Mrs. Beauclairs carrying of Mrs. Fly wife from Sir Francis Wildlove, froffj the Vertuow Wife doing the fame to her Husband's Miftrefs. Then the Scene in the Park betwixt Sir Francis and her in her Mask, is * kind of Copy in young Bellair, and Harriots in Sir Fopling. Mils Peggy feems a Copy of Mifs Hoyden, as Chattal is of feveral of the parts written of late for Mr. hogget. But notwithftanding thefe Imitations. tn KsmimAUTHORS. P Imitations, which ever have been allowed in Poets,the Play has its ' peculiar Merit j and as a Lady carried the Prize of Poetry in France this Year, fo in Juftice, they are like to do in England; tho' indeed we ufe them more barbaroufly, and defraud them both of their Fame and Profit. The Spanijh Wives, a Farce, afted at the Theatre in Dorfet-Gar- dens, by his Majefty's Servants, 1696. and dedicated to the Ho¬ nourable Collonel Tipping, of Whitfield. This Farce had the good Fortune to pleafe, and it rauft be own'd, there are two or three pleafant Turns in it. For the Plot confult the Novel of the Pilgrim. Samuel Pordage, EfcJ^ LAtely, if not ftill, a Member of Lincolns-Inny and Author of two Plays, call'd, Herod and Mariamne, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1673. a fled at the Duke's , Theatre, dedicated to the Dutchefs of Albemarle. A Play writ many Years before it was prefer'd to the Stage, where it was re- ceiv'd with great Satisfaftion. Plot from Jofeph. Hifl. Fhilo field- My and Cleopatra, a Romance, in the Story of Tyridates. Siege of Babylon, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1678. dedicated to her Royal Highnefs the Dutchefs of Tor^. Plot from the aforefaid Ro¬ mance of Cleopatra. ;; Henry Porter. Author of an Hiftorical Play, in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, call'd, Two Angry Women of Abingdon, with the humourout Mrth of Coomes, and Nicholas Proverbs, tw» Serving-men, a Comedy, 4to. 1599. afted by the Right Honourable, the Earl of Nottwghrn, Lord High Admiral's Servants. , ■' i j Thomas Porter, , .A \ *pHis Gentleman liv'd in the Time of the two Charless, and writ, \66\. a Play, call'd. 1 The Carnival, a Comedy, 4to. \66\. afted at the Theatre Roy¬ al, by his Majefty's Servants. TheVillain, a Comedy, 4to. 16 . afted at the Duke's Theatre. This Play is now fometimes afted, Mr. Sandford having gain'd great Reputation by playing the part of Malimi. ' ~ ~* Gw&t Known AUTHORS; P 115 George Powell. SON of Mr. Powell, an ancient Player, lately dead; he is more eminent ior playing than writing, tho1 there are fome Plays under his Name j as, Alphovfo King of Naples, a Tragedy, 4^0. 1691. Afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majefties Servants, and dedicated to her Grace the Dutchefs of Ormond. The Prologue is written by Jo. Haynes, and Epilogue by Mr. Durfey. Brutus of Alba ■, or, Auguflus's Triumph, a new Opera, afted at the Theatre in Dorfet Garden, by his Majefty's Servants, 1690, 410. and dedicated by Sam. Brifcoe, Bookfeller to George Powel, and John Verbruggen. This Play has not fo much as the whole Title new, for Brutus of Alba, is a Play of Mr. Tate's, and all the Defign taken out of feveral old Plays. The treacherous Brother, a Tragedy, \to. 1690. afted by their Majefties Servants, at the Theatre Royal, and dedicated to the Pa¬ tentees and Sharers of their Majefties Theatre. Plot from The I Wall-Flower, a Romance, fol. writ by Dr. Baily, formerly Prefident of St. Johns, Oxon. A very good Wife, a Comedy, 4.to. 169$. afted by their Maje¬ fties Servants, at the Theatre Royal •, and dedicated to the honour¬ ed Alexander Popham, Efq^ The Prologue is writ by Mr.Cmgreve, This Play is taken whole Pages together out of Brome. Thomas Prejlon. I Know no more of this Author, than that he has writ one Play, called, Cambyfes, King of Perfia, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. a very ancient Play with an odd, long Title, which runs thus, (vh.) A lamenta¬ ble Tragedy, mixt full of pleafant Mirth ■, containing the Life of Cambyfes, King of Perfia, from the beginning of his Kingdom un¬ to his Death j his one good Deed of Execution, after the many Wicked Deeds, and Tyrannous Murders committed by and through him: and laft of all, his odious Death, by God's Jujlice appointed1 Done in fuch Order as followeth. London, Printed by John Aide. It is writ in old fafhion'd Metre, and has no Date. Plot from Hera- dotui and JuJlin, i Edmund ii"4 Known authors: q, Edmund Prejimck OF whom I know no more, than that 'tis faid, he has writ a. Play, called, Jfippolitns, a Tragedy, 8vo. 1641. A Play, which Mr.Langbain fays, he never faw the Authors Name is to it, who took the Plot from that of Seneca, or the Ph&dra of Euripides. The HeZlors, another Play, has been by fome Catalogues attribu¬ ted to this Author but I cannot learn for any Reafonit fhouldbs. his, fo you find it placed among the Anonymous Plays. Ql Francis Quarles-, HE was born at Stewards, a Seat in Rumford, in the Parifli of Horn-Church, Ejjex, his Father was James Quarks, Efq-, Clerk of the Green Cloth, and Purveyor to Quen Elizabeth. He ftudied firft at Cbrift-Churcb, Cambridge, then at Lincolns-Inn-, was Cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohemia, Secretary to Bifliop Vfber, and Cronologer to the City of London. He fuffered Perfe¬ ction by the Government then in being, for a Book called, The Loyal Convert. The Troubles of Ireland brought him to die at Home, in the Two and Fiftieth Year of his Age, Sept. 8. 1644* He had Eighteen Children by one Wife, and lies buried in St, Fojier's Church, London. He writ one Play, called, The Virgin Widow, a Comedy, 4to. 1649. He writ divers other Pieces, as a Book of Emblems, which has born many Editions■, a Book of Poems, wherein is the Hiftory of Sampfon, Jonah, Efther, and Job Militant • Argalus and Partbenia-, Enchiridion of Meditations, Divine and Moral ■, Pentaiogia, or, The Quint effence of Meditation; The Loyal Convert, with fome others. R Thomas. Rtmnn AUTHORS. R R Thomas Randolph. HOughton in Northampton/hire gave Birth, Weftmlnfter School, and Trinity Colledge, Cambridge, (where he was Fellow) a learned Education to this Poet. He was an adopted Son of Ben. Johnfon ; and dyed Young, tho' his exaft Age I know not; he writ thefe following Plays. Amintas-, or, The Impofjible Dowry, a Pa floral, 8vo. 1688. This - was afted before the King and Queen at White-Hall. Ariftippus; or. The Jovial Pbilofopher, a Tragi-Comedy, 8vo. 1(588. to which is added, The Conceited Pedlar. This wasprefent- ed in a private Shew. Hey for Honefty, Down with Knavery, a Comedy, 4^0. 16 $1. Tranflated from Arijlophaness Plant us. This was fince augmented and publifhed in 8w. by another Hand, (yi^i) F. J. The Jealous Loverj, a Comedy, 8vo. 1668. This was prefented to their Majefties at Cambridge, by the Students of frinity-Colledget ft and has been accounted the beffc of his Plays, it was revifed by the !Jt Author in his Life-time, and fince revived on the Stage, 1682. It i is dedicated to Dr. Comber, Dean of Carlifle. 6. The Mufes Loolziiig-Glajl, a Comedy, 8m 1681. before called, it The Entertainment. Sir Aflon Coc\ain, and one Mr. Rich, formerly it of Chrijl-Church C.olledge, Oxon, have given great Commendation of to this Play. The two firft and two Iaft of. thefe Plays are printed at Oxoti ;S with his Poems. Edward Ravenfcroft. ji! \ , , ..... A Gentleman of an Ancient Famifyj and tho' defign'd for the Law, and once a Member of the Middle Temple, was pleafed to quit the rugged Paths of Bufinefs for Poetry, in which he has performed with various Succefs. So omitting Mr. Langbairfs Per- fonal Refleftions, which favour firongly of the Univerfity, I /hall proceed to an Account of the Plays. The Anatomift or, The Sham Dollar, & Comedy, 4tot 1697° afted at the Duke's Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields, and de¬ dicated to Thomas Ravenfcroft, Efq^ late High-Sheriff of Flintflriret This Play met with extraordinary Succefs having the Advantage Of the excellent Mufick of The Loves of Mars aha VenM perfofm'd with it. 1 2 The ii 6 Known AUTHORS. R The Canterbury Guefls •, or, A Bargain Broken, a Comedy, 4*0 1(595. a&ed at the Theatre Royal, and dedicated to Rowland Eyre Efq-, this Play had not that Succefs the Poet defired, as may be gathered from the EpifUe. The Carelefs Lovers, a Comedy, 4to. 1673. Afted at the Duke's Theatre. Part of this. Play borrowed from. Motheres Monfieur de Pourceaugnac, 8vo. The Citizen turn d Gentleman, a Comedy, 4^0. 167$. afted at the Duke's Theatre, and dedicated to his h'ighnefs, Prince Rupert. Borrowed from the fame Author he made ufe of in the fore-going Play, and Mol Here's le Bur go is Gentlehome. Dame Dobfon-, or, The Cunning Woman, a Comedy, 4to. 1684. a&ed at the Duke's Theatre. Tranflated from La DevenireJJe, a French Comedy. EnglifJ; Lawyer, a Comedy, 4to. 1678. atted at the Theatre Royal, tranflated from the Latin Ignoramus. The Italian Husband, a Tragedy, 4to. 1697. afted at the Thea¬ tre in Little-Uncolns-Inn-Ficlds. To this Play, befides the Pro- iogue, is prefixt a Dialogue, which he calls, The Prelude. This. Diicourfe is managed by the Poet, a Criffclj_, and one Mr. Peregrinet the Poet's Friend ■, Mr. Peregrine and the Poet would make it out, that the Italian Way of writing a Tragedy in Three Afts, is very commendable •, That I fhall leave to the Decifion of our great Ma¬ tter Horace, who will have the Dramma neither more nor lefs than Five. Then the Foot feems under another Miftake, in thinking, that becaufe an Italian Lad ,' would efteem you a dull, heavy and Phlegmatick Lover, if you fhould wafte time in idle Ceremony and Complement; it is Excufe enough for her yielding fo foon in his Play: For if they are fuch, they are no fitter for a Tra¬ gedy, than one of our Englijb Proftitutes, and can here merit no more Fity. And tho' it is an extraordinary thing to make us pity the Guilty, ( which I know none but Otway could do ) yet the Audience muft be very Companionate, to pity fo willing an Adul¬ tery as this and her Repentance proceeds from Fear, more than a Senfe of the Crime, or at leaf! from the feeming Generofity of the Husband, join'd with a Fear of Death. Our Poet is under, the fame Miftake with other of our modern Writers, who are fond of cruel, barbarous, and bloody Stories, and think no Tragedy can be good without fome Villain in it; but of this elfewhere. As for the Laconic Way he affefts, I fliall only fay this, That it was in ufe only with the Lacedemonians, who were alfo Mafters of their Paffie ,s j and never the more natural for being fhort, for very few Paffions, and only fome part of them, are to be drawn in that fnip fnap way. I only fay this in refpeft to the Ancients, whofe Frattice is natural, and direftly contrary to our Author's* King. Knoivn AUTHORS- R 117 King Edgar find Alfreda, a Tragedy, 4to. 1617. Plot from Englifi) Chronicles ^ feealfo The Annals of Love, 8w, The London Cuckolds, a Comedy , 4^ 1683, afted at the Duke's Theatre. Ploc part from Scarrons Novels, Svo. Nov. 1. (viz.) The Fruitlefi Precaution. Part from Les-Contes Du-Sieur D'ouville, Svo. part 2. pag. 121. And part from Bsecacfs Novels, Day 7. jWw. 6, 7. Scaramouch a Philofopher, Harlequin a School-Bony,. Bravo View of the Tragedies of the laft Age-, tho' I cannot fo much as agree with thofe that allow moft of the Errors he has found in Shake(pear, Juft j for I'm confident it may be made Evident, that not tne fifth part have any Juftice. He, fince the Death of Mr. Shadwell, has the Place of Hiftoriographer to his Majefty, for which Office 'tis certain his Learning very well qualifies him. Edgarj or, The Englijh Monarch, an Heroick Tragedy, 4to. 1678. dedicated to King Charles the Second. Mr. Ravenfcroft hath writ a Play on the fame Subjeft, publillied the Year before this. For the Plot, confult IV. Malmsbury, H. H. Huntingdon, Rig. Hove den, Pol. Virgil, and other Englifh Chronicles: fee alfo The Annals of Love, 8m. s Thomas Sackvile, fee Norton. Thomas St. Serf. TH E Author of one Play, called, Tarugo s Wiles •, or, The Coffee-Houfe, a Comedy, $to. 1568, 1 afted at the Duke of Tory's Theatre ■, dedicated to the Right Ho¬ nourable, George, Marquefs of Huntley. One part of this Play ii built on No Puedefer or, It cannot be, a Spanifh Play: and another part on Sir Courtly Nice, written by Mr. Crown. William Sampfon. A Retainer of Sir Henry Willoughby's Family of Richley in Derby' fhire, in the Reign of King Charles the fir ft. He writ one Play and part of another. The Vow-breaker-, or, The Fair Maid of Clifton, in Nottingham- Jlire -, a Tragedy, 4to. 1633. afted by feveral Companies with great Applaufe ■, and dedicated to Mrs. Ann Willougkby, Daughter to Sir Henry, aforefaid. Herod and Antifater, a Tragedy, 4to. See Markhm, with whom he joined in this. George Known AUTHORS. S George Sandys, Efq^ ^yHis Poet was Son of Edwin, Archbifhop of Toriborn at Bi- Jhps-Thorp, in Torl^jJrire, 1577, was enter d in St. Mary-Hall, (toon, at Eleven Years old j began his Travels about the World 161 o. the "lear of the Murder of Henry IV. of France, among his Poetical Works he tranflated a Latin Play of Hugo Grotm, entit¬ led, ChrijVs Pajjion. He died at Boxley-Abby, in Kent, being his Nephew Mr. Wiat's Seat, and buried in the Chancel of that Church, March 7, 1643. Chriji's Pajfion, a Tragedy, 81/0.1640. dedicated to King Charles the Fir ft. Tranflated from the Latin of Hugo Grotim, with An¬ notations. It was reprinted with Sculptures, 8vo. i682. This Author alfo tranflated Ovid's Metamorphofis, publiflied like- wife with Sculptures, Fol. 1632. Charles Saunders. 'T'His young Gentleman writ a Play, whilft a King's Scholar, called, Tamberlain the Great, a Tragedy, 4to. 1681. atted by his Ma- jefty's Servants at the Theatre Royal, as alfo before the King at pxon. This Play was highly commended by Mr. Banks, and other Poets. Plot from Ajleria and Tamerlane, a Novel, %vo. Thomas Scot. AN Author yet living, he was a Weftminfter Scholar, and lately a Student in Cambridge, who has given the Town two new Plays in Appearance, at leaft two new Titles, the firft in Order, and writing, is, The Mod1 Marriage, a Comedy, 4 to. a died at the Theatre in Dorfet-Gardetiy by his Majefty'sServants, 1696. This Author has given us no Proof of his Talent in Flattery, for he has dedicated neither of thofe Plays he has appeared in; bathe has that part of a Poet however,of flattering hirnfelf (as indeed every Man does more or lefs) in defending what the Town has once condemned, for tho» a bad Play may take, yet we hear very few Inftances that a good one mifcarried; 'tis true, this is like other general Rules, not without its Exception. This particular Play met with pretty good Succefs, for the Seafon of the Year, confidering it the firft Efiay of a young Writer, unacquainted with the Town. 332 Known A U T H O R S. S The Vnhappy Klndnefsor, A Fmtlefs Revenge, a Tragedy, 4/9, afted at the Theatre Royal, 16$6. This Play is only the Wife for a Month of Fletchers alter d, tho1 he has thought fit to retain its greateft Faults, in the Character of the Wife, whofe Behaviour to her Husband, to provoke him to eafe her of her Maiden-head, is by no means agreeable to the Modefty of the Sex, which is a Sia again# the Manners. Elkanah Settle. AN Author now living, who was fome time at Trinity-Colled^ Oxon ■, but coming to London, and having been there poflefTed with Poetry, fpent a very good Fortune, and then ftuck to the Stage, which yet would not flick to him •, his fickknefs in po¬ litical Principles (having once been an aftive Man for the Whigg- Party) loft him too his Friends on the other Side, without any Re¬ ward for his Defertion. Whatever his Plays are (which if com- par'd with the beft of ourprefent Writers, I mean fome of them, far excel 'em) in the Opinion of his Enemies, he has perform'd in fome, with no lefs applaufe than Merit; in his Difpute with Mr. Dryden, he had evidently the better of him; tho', being a modeft Man, he fuffer'd himfeif to be rnn down by his Antago- nift in his Intereft in the Town. The Ambitions Slave •, or, A Generous Revenge, a Tragedy afted at the Theatre Royal, 4to. 1694. an^ dedicated to the Honoured John Bright, Efq; which Dedication the Auth©r begins with the ill Fortune of the Play. The Scene he has plac'd in Perfia, from whence I find he is fcarce to be got. Cambyfes, King of Perfia, a Tragedy, 4to. 167$. afred at the Duke's Theatre j dedicated to the Illuftrious Princefs Ann, Dutchefs of Monmouth. This Play fold two Inipreffiohs before this time of printing, and is in Heroick Verfe. Plot, JuJiin, Lib. 1. Cap. 9, Amiams Marcellinus, Lib. 23. Herodotus, &c. The Conquefi of China by the Tartars, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1676. •afted at the Dake's Theatre and dedicated to the Lord Caftle-Ri- fmr. This Play is founded on Hiftory, and writ in Heroick Verfe. Plot, Heyl'ins Cofmography, Book 3. Conquejl of China by Signior Palafax, Englifhed, Svo. Leveis de Gufmans and Gonzales de Men- doza. DiftreJJed Innocence •, or, The Princefs of Perfia, a Tragedy, 4to. 1691. afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majefties Servants; and dedicated to the Right Honourable John, Lord Cutts, Baron of Gowram. This Known AUTHORS. S 125 This Play our Author writ after ten Years Silence, and pays his publick Acknowledgment to Mr. Betterton, for his feveral ex¬ traordinary hints to. the heightning of its beft Characters, and how he was indebted to Mr. Mont fort for the lafl Scene thereof, who alfo writ the Epilogue. The Story of Hormidas and Cleomlra built on true Hiftory. The Emprefs of Morocco, a Tragedy, 4to. 1073. writ in Hero- ick Yerfe, with Sculptures ^ afted at the Duke's Theatre ; and de¬ dicated to the Right Honourable, Henry, Earl of Norwich, and EarlMarfhal of England. This Play was writ againft by Mr. Dry- den, Mr.S/Wwe//,and Mr.Crown, and called, Notes and Observations on the Emprefs of Morocco; or, Some few Err at as to be printed in- flead of the Sculptures, with the fecond Edition of that Play. 4toy 1674. Which Pamphlet was anfwered by another. Fatal Love ; or, The fore d Inconflancy, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. afted at the Theatre Royal and dedicated to Sir Rob. Owen. Plot from Achilles Tatim s Clitophon and Lucippe, a Romance, Boo^ 5. which Romance is likewife in Englijh, printed 8vo. The Female Prelate , or, The Hiflory of the Life and Death of Pope Joan, a Tragedy, j^to. 1680. afted at the Theatre Royal ■, and dedicated to the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftsbury. Plot from Platinas Lives of the Popes, Engliflied by Sir Paul Ri- caut, and the Life and Death of Pope Joan, 8vo. 1675. wherein is a Lift of fuch Authors who affirm, and others who deny the Truth of this Story. There is alfo another fmall Book of the Life and Death of Pope Joan, writ Dialogue-wife, by one Mr. Coo\, formerly Fellow of Vniverfity- Co Hedge, Oxon. which Piece was fo much va¬ lued then, that 'twas tranllated into French by J. de la Mon- taign. The Heir of Morocco, with the Death of Gay I and-, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1682. afted at the Theatre Royal-, and dedicated to the Lady Henrietta Wentworth, Baronefs of Nettlejled. Ibrahim, the IlluftrioM Bafja; a Tragedy, 4to. 1677. afted at Duke's Theatre •, and dedicated to the Dutchefs of Albermarle ■, it is writ in Heroick Verfe. Plot from The Illujlrioui Bajfa, a Ro¬ mance, Fol. Love and Revenge, a Tragedy, 4 to. 167$. afted at the Dukes Theatre ; and dedicated to the Duke of Newcaftle. A great part of this Play taken from another, called, Fatal Contratt, writ by Mr. Hemmings, formerly of the Univerfity of Oxon. Paftor Fidoor, The Faithful Shepherd, a Paftoral, 4to. 1677. afted at the Duke's Theatre, and dedicated to the Lady Elizabeth Delaval. It was firft tranllated by Sir Richard Fanjhaw, from the Italian of Guarini, which Tranflation our Author has endeavoured to improve. The i24 Known AUTHORS. S the World in the Moon, an Opera, 4to. 1698. as it is performed at the Theatre in Dorfet-Garden, by hisMajefty's Servants 5 and de¬ dicated to Chrifiopher Roth, Efq-, This is fomething unulual, being a comicaljjOpera. I think great part of the Run betwixt Palmerin, Worthy, Sir Dotterel, and J acini ha, pleafant enough, tho'thefirft and late Effay of our Author in the Soc. Tho. Shadwell, Efq} A Gentleman of a good Family in the County of Norfolk was well received by the Noblemen of Wit, efpecially the prefent Earl of Dorfet, the late Duke of NewcaIHe, (jc. he was on the Revolution made Poet Laureat, which place he held till his Death, which happened about three or four Years fince. His Co¬ medies, at leaft fome of them, fhew him to underftand Humour; 3nd if he cou'd have drawn the Chara&er of a Man of Wit, as well as that of a Coxcomb, there wou'd have been nothing want¬ ing to the Perfection of his Dramatick Fables. Eut to his Plays in their Order, being Seventeen in Number, (vi?.) The Amorous Bigotte, with the Second part of Teague 0 Divell)i, a Comedy 4/0. 16go. afted by their Majefties Servants and dedi¬ cated to the Right Honourable Charles, then Earl, now Duke of Shrewsbury. Bury Fair, a Comedy, 4to. 1 <58 9. afted by his Majefty's Ser¬ vants •, and dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Dor¬ fet and Middlesex, then Lord Chamberlain of his Majefty's Hofhold. Part of this Play taken from the Duke of Nervcafiles Triumphant Widow, and part from Molliere s Precieufes Ridicules. Epfom Wells, a Comedy, 4to. 1676. afted at the Duke's Theatre-, and dedicated to his Grace the Duke of Kewcaftle. 'Tis a pleafant Commendation of Mr. Lavgbain, ( whofe -rcmv Mr. Shadwell is) to bring Monfleur St. Euveremonfs Praife of it who cannot fpeak a Word of Englifh, and by Confequence none of the bell Judges of the Goodnefs of our Englifli Plays, which require a Mattery of our Tongue. The Humour ifts, a Comedy, 4to. 1671. afted by his Royal High- nefs's Servants and dedicated to the mofl Uluftrious Margaret, Dutchefs of Newcaftle. This Play (tho' the Defign of it was good) met with many Enemies at its firft appearance on the Stage. The Lancajhire Witches, and Teague 0 Dive llyt the Irijh Priejl 3 a Comedy, 4to. 1682. afted at the Duke's Theatre. Heywood and Brome have writ on the fame Subjeft, but not fo diverting. The Libertine, a Comedy, 4^0. 1676. atted by his Royal High- nefTes Servants •, and dedicated to his Grace the Duke of Newcajtle. This is accounted one of his beft Plays, and is diverting enough. Plot Known AUTHORS. S Plot from MoLliere's VAtbee Foudroye, & H. Atheijlo Fulmi- nato. The Mifer, aComedy, 4to. 1672. afted by his Majefty's Servants, at the Theatre Royal; and dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Buckkurfl^ now Earl of Vorfet and Middlefex. Plot from Mollmes Vavaree. Pfyche, an Opera, 4to. 1*75. afted at the Duke's Theatre, and dedicated to his Grace James, Duke of Monmouth. This being the firffc Play he writ in Rhime, met with divers Enemies. Our Author nude ufe of the French Pfyche, and of Apuleius's Afinui Au¬ reus, which is alfo in Englifh, 4to. 1639. The Royal Shepherdefs, a Tragi-Comedy. 4to. 1669. afted by his Highnefs the Duke of Tory's Servants. This Play is taken from The Reward of Vertue, writ by Mr. Fountain. The Scomers, a Comedy, 4*0. 1591. afted by their Majefties Servants-, and dedicated by his Widow, to the late Queen, of ever blefied Memory. I think in this Comedy there is a great deal of noify Humour, and that not unpleaiant. The Charafters of Eugenia, and Clara are Copies of Sir George Etheridge, at lead that of Eugenia is of Harriot, aiid fo is Sir William Rant, a faint one of Dorimant, and Sir Frederic Frolick- The Squire of Alfatia, a Comedy, 4to. 1688. afted by their Ma- jefties Servants and dedicated to the Earl of Dorfet and Middlefex. This Play, which met with good Succefs, is founded on Terence's Adelphi. The fullen Lovers-, or, The Impertinents, aComedy, 4to. i6jo. * and dedicated to his Grace Will:am, Duke of tfewcaftle. Plot from Meniere's Les Facheaux. Timon of Athens •, or, The Man-hater, a Tragedy, 4to. i6j2. afted at the Duke's Theatre, and dedicated to the late Duke of Buckingham. Moft part of this Play is Shakefpeaf s; nay, and the Criticks fay, all of it that is good for any thing. The True Widow, a Comedy, 4*0. 1679. afted at the Duke's The¬ atre, and dedicated to Sir Charles Sidley. This Play has not ap¬ peared very often on the Stage, tho' Mr. Langbain commends the Charafters and Humours to be as well drawn as any of this Age. The Volunteers 5 or, The Stockjobbers, a Comedy, 4to. 169%. and dedicated by his Widow to the Queen. Sir Timothy Caftrils growing Valiant on his Rencounter with Nickum, is very like the Little French Lawyer of Fletcher ■, only Sir Timothy preferves his Va¬ lour to the end of the Play ; tho' we have not the Experiment whether the fight of his Blood would not have had the fame Effeft on him. t The i26 Known AUTHORS. S The Woman Captain, a Comedy, 4to. 1680. afted at the Duke's Theatre, by his Royal Highnefs's Servants 3 and dedicated to Hen¬ ry, Lord Oglej Son to the Duke of Newcaftle. William Shakefpear* HE was born and buried in Stratford upon Avon, in Warwick- JJnre. I have been told that he writ the Scene of the Ghofl in Hamlet, at his Boufe which bordered on the Charnel-IIoufe and Church-Yard. He was both Player and Poet; but the greateft Po¬ et that ever trod the Stage, I am of Opinion, in fpight of Mr. Johnfon, and others from him, that though perhaps he might not be that Critic in Latin and Greek as Benyet that he underftood the former, fo well as perfeftly to be Matter of their Hiftories, for in all his Roman Characters he has nicely followed Hiftory, and you find his Brutus, his Cajfm, his Anthony, and his C&far, his Corio- lanm, foe. juft as the Hiftorians of thofe times defcribe 'em. He died on the 23d of April, 1616. and is buried with his Wife and Daughter in Stratford-Church afore-faid, under a Monument on which is a Statue leaning on a Cufhion, and this Infcription; Ingenio Pylum, genio Socratem, arte Maronem, Terra tegit, Populwf mcerit, Olympus habet. Stay, Pajfenger, why dojl thou go fo faft P Read, if thou can ft, whom envious Death has placd Within this Monument, Shakefpear, with whom Quicl^ Nature died, whofe Name doth deelthe Tomb Far more than coft, fmce all that he hath writ Leaves living Art, but Page, to ferve b'u Wit. Obiit An. Dom. 1616. JEt. 53. Die 23. Apr, Near the Wall on a plain Stone, which covers him, is this Epitaph: Good Friend, for Jefm Sake forbear To dig the D ujl enclofed here. Blefl be the Man that Jfares thefe Stones^ And curjl be he that moves my Bones. Alls well that ends well, a Comedy. Plot from Boccace's Novels> Vayi. Nov. p. Juliet of Narbona, &c. Anthony and Cleopatraga Tragedy, fol. Plot from Plutarch in vi¬ ta Antonii. As Known AUTHORS. S 127 jAs you lik.e ity a Comedy,. Fol. The Birth of Merlin■, or, The Child has loft hit Father, a Tra- gi-Comedy, 4^ 1662. Mr. Rowley join'd with our Author in this Flay. Plot, Ethelrrord, G. Monmouth, Bede, Po/z'afor, Virgil, .5Yo»v (£rc. >4 of £>ron-, a Comedy, fol. The Ground from PlautM, Amphitruo, and Mmechmi. Coriolanus, a Tragedy, fol. Plot from Plutarch's Life of Coriola- nus, from liu/jf Hiftory, Dionifiiu HallicarnajfeM, &c. Cromwell, (Thomas, Lord) /ji* Z-i/e and Death, a Hi ft or y, /o/. and 4fo. Plot from Fox's Martyr ology, Fuller's Church Hij\. Dr. nefr's Hift. Reformation, Wanly's Hijh of Man. Hacwell's Apology, and Lloyd's Englijh Worthies. Cymbeiine, his Tragedyfol. Mr. Durfeys Injured Princefs or, Tfre Wager, is only this Play reviv'd. The Plot from Boccace's Novels, D^y 2. Aw. p. Henry the Fourth, Two Parts, Hiftory, /o/. the firft Part con¬ taining the Life of izem;y Percy, firnamed Hotfpur • and the comi¬ cal pact the Charafter of Sir Jo/m Faljiaff, which has been play'd by the late famous Mr. Lacey, to Admiration. In the fecond part" you have an Aft of the Death of this King, and the Coronation of his Succeftor. See Geoffry of Monmouth, Caxton, Harding, Hall, Grafton, Martin, Hollingjhead, .Sftw, and other our Englijh Chro¬ nicles. Henry the Fifth, his Life •, Hiftory, fol. A Comical part is mixt with the Hiftorical, and contains the Reign of this King, to his Marriage with Katharine of France. See the afore-faid Englijh Chronicles. Henry the Sixth, Three Parts, Hiftory, /«>/. In the Second is the Death of the good Duke Humphrey, in the Third the Death of the Duke of 7or£; all the Parts contain the whole Reign of this King. See the fame Englijh Chronicles. Henry the Eighth, 6# Z-i/f? Hiftory, fol. The part of King Hen¬ ry was often in King Charles the Second's Time extraordinary well afted by Mr. Betterton. See our Englijh Chronicles before-men¬ tioned. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,5 a Tragedy, fol. and 4to. For the Slot fee Saxo-Grammaticus, Crantrum, Pontaim, Idacm foe. John, King of England Hiftory, fol. for the Plot fee our Eng¬ lijh Chronicles. John, King of England, his troublefom Reign, in two parts, Hifto¬ ry, 4fo. 1611. with the Difcovery of King Richard C&ur de Lyons^ Bafe Son (as vulgarly called) Fawconbridge alfo the Death of the faid King John at Swinjlead Abby. Thefe Plays were feveral times afted by the Queen's Majefty's Players, tho not divi¬ ded into Afts, and differ much from the other Play in Folio. Julius 128 Known AUTHORS. S Julius C&far, a Tagedy, fol. and 4to Founded on Hiftory. If was reviv'd and afted divers times in the Reign of the late King Charles II. For the Prologue, which was highly commended, fee a fmall Book, called Covent-Oarden Drollery, pag. 9: and for the Hiftory, fee Plutarch, Livy, Suetonius. Lear, King of England; a Tragedy, fol. and 4to. This Play has bean reviv'd with Alterations by our prefent Poet Laureat. Fof the true Story, fez Milt oris H ijl.of England, beginning pag. 17. fee alfo Leland, Monmouth, Gloucefier, fee. Locrine, El deft Son to King Brutus, a Tragedy, fol. and 4^0. For the Plot, fee Mlltoris Hi ft. of England, and the afore-faid Au¬ thors. London Prodigal, a Comedy, /o/. and 4^. Love's Labour loft, a Comedy, /o/. Mackbeth, a Tragedy, fo/. and 4*0. revived and re-printed witlf Alterations and Songs, and now often afted. For the Plot confult Buchanan, and others who have written Scottifh Affairs j fee alfat Heywoodof Angels, />. 508. Heyliris Cofmography, Book, 1. Meafure for Meafure, a Corned), /o/. For the Plot fee Cynthio Giraldi, Dec. 8. Aw. 5. Lipfii Monita, p. 12$. Hiftoirs Admirabiles de notre temps, p. 216. The Merchant of Venice, a T-ragi-Comedy, /o/. Midfummer-Nights Dream, a Comedy, fol. The comical part j hereof is printed 4to. under the Title of Bottom the Weaver, and | afted by fmall Parties at Bartholomew Fair, and other Places: and fmce publifh'd under the Name of The Fairy Queen. Much ado about nothing, a Comedy, fol. Sir William D'avemni r made ufe of this Play, and Meafure for Meafure, in compofinghis t Law againft Lovers. For the Plot fee Ariojlo's Orlando Furiofo, Boo^ 5. and Spencer's Fairy Queen, 2. Oldcaftle, Lorrf Cobhams Life and Death, a Tragedy, /o/. See 1 Fullers Church Hift. and FoxV £o K % M i|2 Known AUTHORS. S The Con]} ant Maid; or, Love will find out the Way ; a Comedy, 4to. 1667. This was afted at a new Houfe, called, The Nurfery jri Hat ton-Gar den. You may find Hadwell's courting of the Widow Bellamy, by the Advice of Flay fair, to be the Subjeft of divers other Plays. Contention for Honour and Riches, a Mafque, 4to. 1633. dedica¬ ted to Edward Golding of Colflon, in Narthamptonfhire, Efq-, This Author, with this and fome other Matter, compofed a Comedy, called, Honoria and Mammon, hereafter mentioned. The Contention of Ajax andVlyffes for Achilles''s Armour, a Mafque, 8vo. i(558. Plot from Ovid's Metamorpofis, BoqI^ 13. The Coronation, a Comedy, 4^0. Which Play by fome means or other, was printed with Beaumont's and Fletchers Plays, tho' none of theirs. A Court Secret, a Tragi-Comedy, 8k0. firft printed 1653. then afted at the Biack^Fryars; and dedicated to William, Earl of Strafford. Cupid and Death, a Mafque, 4 to. 1659. For the Plot, fee Ogilbfs JFfop's Fables, Vol. I. Fab. 39. The Doubtful Heir, a Tragi-Comedy, 8ko. 1652. afted at the BlacJ^Fryars and dedicated to Sir Edmund Bowyer. For part of the Story, fee The EngliJ}) Adventurers. 8vo. part 3. The Duke's Miftrefs, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1638. afted at the private Houfe in Drury-Lane, by her Majefty's Servants. The Example, a Tragi-Comedy, 4*0. 1637. afted at the private ] Houfe in Drury-Lane, by her Majefty's Servants. The Gamejler, a Comedy, 4ft?. 1637. afted at the private Houfe in Drury-Lane. Plot, Queen Margaret's Novels, Day 1. At0k. 8. and Vnlucl^y Citizen, Svo. The Gentlemanof Venice, a Tragi-Comedy, 4ft). 16$$. afted at the private Houfe in Salisbury-Court, by her Majefly's Servants, and dedicated to Sir Tho. Nightingale, Baronet. For the Plot, confult Gaytons Notes on Don Quixot, Bool^ 4. Chap. 6. &c. 7he Grateful Servant, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1655. afted at the private Houfe in Drury-Lane, by her Majefty's Servants, with good Applaufe ^ and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Francis, Earl of Rutland. Compare this Play with The numerous Courtier, writ by the fame Author. Hide-Park,, a Comedy, qto. 1637. prefented by her Majefty's Servants at the private Houfe in Drury-Lane ^ and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Henry, Earl of Holland. Honoria and Mammon, a Comedy, 8-1/0. Plot grounded on a Mafque of the fame Author's, call'd, Contention for Honour and v Riches. 1 The Known AUTHORS, S3? i;; The Humorous Courtier, a Comedy, 4to. 1640. preferred at the private Houfe in Drury-Lane, with good Applaufe. Thelmpojiure, a Tragi-Comedy, 8vo. 1652. afted at the private Houfein Black; Fry arsand dedicated to Sir Rob. Bol/cs, Baronet.' The Lady of Pleafure, a Comedy, 4*0. 16*5 7. afted at the private Houfe in Drury-Lane, by her Majefly's Servants ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Richard, Lord Lovelacp, of Hurley. Part of this Play refembles part in The Grateful Servant.. Love Trices • or, Sc/joo/ 0/ Compliments •, a Comedy, 4 fa. 1667. afted at the Theatre in little-Lmcolns-Inn-Fields, by his Royal Hignefs, the Duke of 7or£s Servants. Love's Cruelty, a Tragedy, 4ft). 11540. afted at the private Houfe in Drury-Lane, by her Majefly's Servants; and dedicated to Cpr- net George Porter, and Mr. Charles Porter. See Cynthios Novels, Dec. 5. Nov. 6. and Q. Margaret's Novels, Day 4. A/W (5. T/;e Maid's Revenge, a Tragedy, 4^0. 1639. acted at the private Houfe in Drury-Lane, with good Applaufe, by her Majeftv's Ser- 1 vants. This Play is dedicated to Henry Osborn, Efq-, Plot from Reynold's God's Revenge againft Murther, fol. 800^2. Hilt. 7. Tfre Opportunity,3. Comedy,4*0. afted at the private Houfe in Dru- ; ry-Lane, by her Majeftys Servants; it is dedicated to Capt. Richard Owen. Compare this Play with Shakefrear's Meafure for Meafure. The Politician, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1655. prefetited at Salii bury- Court, by her Majefly's Servants; and dedicated to Walter Moyle, Efq-, For the Plot fee the Countefs of Montgomery's Urania. The Royal Mafter, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 11538. afted at the Theatre in Dublin, and in the Caille there before the Right Ho¬ nourable , the Lord Deputy of Ireland and dedicated to the Right Honourable, George, Earl of Kildare. By the many Copies pf Verfes in Commendation of this Play, we may guefs it was jvell efteem'd. St. Patricks for Ireland, a Hiflory, qto. 1640. There is but one part of this Play printed •, a fecond was defigned by the Author for the Prefs, but never publifh'd. See Bede s Life of St. Patrick Sigibert, Baleus3 Baronius, &c. The Sifters, a Comedy, 8m 1652. afted at the private Houfe in Blac^Fryars and dedicated to William Paulet, Efq; The Traytor, a Tragedy, 4to. 1635- afte$l by her Majefly's Ser¬ vants ; and dedicated to the Duke of Nemajile. This Play was one Mr. Rivers\ a Jefuit, tho' alter'd a little and introdue'd into the Houfe by Shirley. The Triumph of Beauty, aMafque, 8vo. 1646. Compare this to the comical Part of the Midsummer-Nights Dream, and another part to Bottom the Weaver, both by Shakef^ar: fee alfo Luciaiis Dialogues. This is printed with the Author's Poems, 8vo. K 3 The i;4 Known AUTHORS. S The Wedding, a Comedy, 4*0. 16 • afted by her Majefty's Ser¬ vants at the Phenix in Vrury-Lane j and dedicated to V/iHjam Gow° er, Efq-, The Witty Fair one, a Comedy, 4^0. 1633- afted at the private Houfe in Vrury-Lane *, and dedicated to Sir Edward BufheU. The Toung Admiral, a Tragicomedy, 4to 1637. afted at the private Houfe in Drury-Lane -7 and dedicated to the Right Honou¬ rable, George, Lord Barney. Sir Charles Sidley. THis Noble Gentleman is yet living, and has been efteem'd a Man of the. Fir ft Rank of Wit. He writ thele three follow¬ ing Plays : Anthony and Cleopatra, a Tragedy, 4to. 1677. afred at the Duke's Theatre, Plot from Appian, Dion Caffm, Plutarch's Life of M. Anthony. ■■ - BeUamira or, The Miftrefs 5 a Comedy, 4to. 1687. afted by his Majefty's Servant. The Ground from Terrence's Eunuchm. The Mulberry Garden, a Comedy, 4to. i668. afted at the The- atrd Royal, by his Majefty's Servants. This Play is dedicated to her Grace the Dutchefs of Richmond and Lenix. Sir John Em- young, and Sir Samuel Forecaftle copied from Molliere's L'Efcole it Marti, ' tv: . . . John Smith. Gentleman of Snenton, in TorJ^fhire, and now (or lately) li- igL ving •, he writ a Flay that was never afted, called, Cytherea •, or, The Enamouring Girdle, a Comedy, 4to. 1577. This Play the Author dedicated to the Northern Gentry. i ti,t I ' * ' v " , •' William Smith. Author writ one Play in King James the Firft his Reign, t calld, - N ^ The HeUor of Germany or, The Palfgrave Prime Eletlor; a Hi- ftory, 4to. 1615. afted at the Red Bull, &c. by a Company of young Citizens, and dedicated to the right Honourable, Sir John Swinnerton, Lord Mayor of London. This Play is not divided into Atts. He writ, with the Afliftance of one Mr. Webbe, a Book callU, The Defcripiion of the C^mty Palatine of Cheft er. TlxMi Known AUTHORS. S ijf \ Thomas Southern. A Gentleman now living, who, as I have been inform'd, made his firft Application to the Law; but quitted thofe rougher Studies for the more pleanng Entertainment of the Mufes; and after the writing of two Plays, with no ill Succefs, at lead with very good Judges, mov'd by his aftive Temper, he left, for fome Years, the calmer retreat of Poetry for the War; till, in the Year 1690. he prefented the Town with that diverting Comedy of Sir Anthony Love, and Six more, but of all in their order : The Disappointment; or, The Mother in Fajhion•, afted at the The¬ atre Royal, 1084. 4to. and dedicated to the Right Honourable, James, Earl of O'ffery (the prefent Duke of Orrnom). -The Cur tow Impertinent of the incomparable Hiftory of Don Qvixot, feems to have given our Author an Hint ot the Plot. The Loyal Brother; or, The Per fun Prince a Tragedy, afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeftie; Servants, 1682. 4to. and dedicated to his Grace, the Duke of Richmond. This was his firft Play, and is built on the Novel of Tachmas, Prince of Per- fia, 8 vo. The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery •, a Play, aftci at the Theatre Royal, by their Majefties Servants, 1694. 4to. and dedicated to Anthony Hammond, of Somerfham Place, Efq; In the Dedication our Author owns his taking a hint of the Tragical part of this Play, from a Novel of Mrs. Behns, call'd, The Nun; or, The Fair Vow-breaker. This Play was receiv'd with vaft Ap- plaufe, and is yet afted with Succefs; the Diftrefs of the Story being extreamly moving, and the PafTions very well touched by the Author; tho' had he made Villeroy and Biron Friends, it wou'd have fometliing hei^hten'd the Diftrefs. In the Comical part, the Hint of Fernando being perfuaded to believe that he had been dead, buried, and in Purgatory, feems to be owing to The Little Thief of Fletcher. The Maids Lafl Prayer -, or, Any thing rather than Fail a Come¬ dy, afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majefties Servants, 1693. 4to. and dedicated to.the Honourable, Mr. Charles Boyl. Oroonoty, a Tragedy, afted atthe Theatre Royal, by hisMajefty's Servants, 1696. $to'. and dedicated to his Grace, William, Duke of Devonfhire, fee. in which the Author makes this ingenuous Ac¬ knowledgement, which few Poets have formerly done •, viz- ' I 4 ftand engaged to Mrs. Behn for the occafion of a moft paftionate c Diftrefs in my laft Play, (which was The Innocent Adultry) and in. < a Confcience that I had not made her. a fufficient Acknowledg- « ment, I have run farther into her Debt, with a Defign to oblige „ $4 W ip6 Known AUTHORS. S 4 me to be Honeft, and that every one may find me out for Ingra¬ titude, when I don't fay all that's fit for me upon that Subject: 1 fhe had a great Command of the Stage, and I have often won- c der'd that file fhould bury her Favourite Hero in a Novel, whei> 5 fhe ^ftight have reviv'd him in the Scene. I hive quoted this, becaufe 'tis very uncommon with Authors to fpeak well of thole they borrow from in their .Writings,for I have known a great Man perpetually rail at the French Authors, and yet contradift his Reflexions on them, by filling his Writings with their Wit and Defigijs ; and I have fo often experiene'd this Par¬ ticular, among the Writers of our Age, that when I hear any of them condemn, either our Ancient or Modern Authors, I conclude, -he has been robbing there, and would deter us from finding out his Theft. But as to this Play of Oroonoty, you find our Poet has allow'd the Plot of it Mrs. Behris; for on that Prince fhe has com- pos'd the befl of her Novels: and as it muff be'confefs'd that the Play had not its mighty Succefs without an innate Excellence ■, fo in my Opinion, the necelfary regularities a Dramatick Poet is ob¬ liged to obfcrve, has left many Beauties in the Novel, which our jAuthor cou'd not transfer to his Poem. As Mrs. Barrey did the Poet gll t[*ie Juftice fo admirable an Adtrefs, when (lie moft exerts her felf, could do, in the Innocent Adultery fo Mr. Verbruggen, in the Part of Qmnokg, by doing the Author Right, got himfelf the Re¬ putation of*>ne of the befl Aclors of his time. • Sir Anthony -Loveor, The Rambling Lady ; a Comedy, 4^1690, afted at the jfheatre Royal by their Majefties Servants; and dedi¬ cated to Tho. Slfipwith, Efq- (now Sir Thomas). This Play met .with extraordinary Succefs. The V/i v?s" excufe or, Cuckolds make themfelves a Comedy, afted at the-Theatre Royal, by their Majeftsies Servants, 1692. 4to. This Play it Teems -4d not take as well as was expefted, but is ufh- cy'd into print by Pa Copy of Verfes of his Friend, Mr. Dry den •, ip which he juftly reflefts on the depraved Tafte of the Age, efpe- ejally. in thefp Two Lines, on the Fault of thofe Poets, who de¬ bauch the Palate of the Audience. farce In it felf is of a nafly Scent; ButihQ Gain fulfils not of the Excrement. For if there be not fo intricate a Plot, there is certainly a gaily Conversion, and Purity of Language, which few of our Poets ,obfcn?eo . ; t. .. Thomfa Known AUTHORS. S Thomas Stanley, Efq$ A Learned Gentleman of Cumberloe-Green, in Hertford/Jure, who in the time of King Charles the Firft, writ the Hiftory of the Philofophers, and in that a Play of Ariftophanes, called, The Clouds^ a Comedy, fol. 1687. Tranflated from Ariftopha¬ nes, printed with his Hiftory of Philofophy, Re-printed about Ten Years fince. He tranflated /Ffchylm's Tragedies into Latin - alfo Anacreon and Mofchws, from the Greek.• He has publifh'd like- wife divers Tranflations from Latin, Spanifh, and Italian - befides 'his Poems mEnglifh, 8vo. and two fmall Romances or Novels, 8vo. Sir Robert Stapleton. A Learned Author who was Gentleman Ufher of the Privy Cham- ber to King Charles the Second j and is, I fuppofe, ftill living. He writ Two Plays: Hero and Leander, a Tragedy, 4to. 1669. dedicated to her Grace, the Dutchefs of Monmouth. Plot from Ovid's Epiftles, and Mufauss Erotopagnion, Greeland Latin. The Slighted Maid, a Comedy,4fo. 1663. dedicated to his Grace, the Duke of Monmouth. Plot from Mart. Epigr. 4. <&c. John Stephens. "THis Author, who liv'd in the Reign of King James the firft, writ one very long Play, call'd, Cynthia's Revenge, a Tragedy, 4to. 1613. Plot from Lucans Pharfalia, and Ovid's Met amorphojis, lib. 13. William Strode, POet and Divine in the Reign of King Charles the Frft; he was born in Devon/hire, entred at Nineteen, and admitted Student of Chrift-Church, Oxonhaving taken moft of his Degrees, was chofe Univerfity-Orator, and after that commenc'd [Doftor, and •was made a Cannon by the King. He died March 11. 1644. and was buried at Chrift-Church afore-faid. The Floating I/land, a Comedy, 4*0.16$$. afted by the Students of Chrift-Church, before his Majefty, at Oxon. 1639. The Airs and Songs were fet by Mr. Henry Lams. The Author had tranfcri- bed i;8 AUTHORS- S bed and dedicated the Play to his honoured Patron, Sir John Helle, but it was not printed till fome Years after his Death. This Play is full of Morality. The Author publifh'd three Sermons befides the Play. J. Studley, ANother Tranflator of Seneca s Tragedies, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, of which he Englifh'd Four: vij. Agamemnon, a Tragedy, 4to. Our Author has added a whole Scene in the Fifth Aft, Hippolitus, a Tragedy, 4to. This is a very regular Play, as to Time, Place, and Aftion. Hercules Oetaw, a Tragedy, 4to. A Refemblance of Sophocles Trachiniai. Medeay a Tragedy, 4to. In this Seneca, imitates Euripides, but at too great a di fiance, and is alfo regular, as moft of his Tragedies are. This Tranflator has altered the Chorus of the Firft Aft. Sir John Suckling. WAS born at Wit ham, in Middlesex, 1631. in the beginning of the Eleventh Month he fpoke Latin at Five Years old, and writ it at Nine. He was Comptroller to King Charles the Firft. An excellent Mufician and Poet: made a Campaign with Gufta- uiffy and was in Five Sieges, Three Battles, &c. he was at the Ex- pence of 12000 /. to raife a Troep for the King. He writ Four Plays, viz,. Aglaura, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. and 8vo. prefented at the pri¬ vate Houfe in Black-Fryars. The Author has fo alter'd the laft Aft, that 'tis at the Pleafure of the Aftors to make it a Tragedy or Tra¬ gi-Comedy. Brenoralt *, or, The Difcontented Colonel, a Tragedy, 8vo. pre¬ fented by his Majefty's Servants, at the private Houfe in Blacky Fryars. The Goblins, a Tragi-Comedy, 8vo. prefented by his Majefty's Servants at the private Houfe in Blacl^Fryars. The Sad One, a Tragedy, 8vo. This Play Sir John never finifh'd. Thefe Plays, with his other Works, are printed together 8vo. the laft Edition printed 1676. If you wo^lo. fee a farther Chara¬ cter of this Author, fee Lloyd's Memoirs, fol. pag. i$p. Gilbe^ Known AUTHORS. T 139 Gilbert Sxvinhoe* ANerthumberland Gentleman, who in the Reign' of King Charle* the Firft, writ a Play, call'd, The Vnhappy Fair Irene, a Tragedy, 4to. 16 58. Plot from Ban- deUo s Novels, and Turkjfh Chronicles, Life of Mahomet the Firft. U R prefent Poet Laureat, a Perfon of great Probity of Manners, Learning, and good Nature : His Birth and E- ducation (as I have been told) he owes to the Kingdom of Ireland: He has, for feveral Years, had the Patronage of the pre¬ fent Earl of Dorfet, and has Merit to deferve more than he has met with from others: He is guilty of Mode fly, of which few of his Profeffion know much •, and it is the noify pufliing Man in Poe¬ try, as well as other things, that prevails with Fame as well as Fortune. But now to his Drammatick Compofures. Brutus of Alba, an Opera, 4to. 1678. afted at the Duke's The¬ atre } it is dedicated to the Right Honourable, Charles, Earl of Dorfet and Middlesex. Plot from Virgil's JILneids, Book. 4. The Cuckolds Haven j or, An Alderman no Conjurer,- aFarce, 4ft?. 1685. afted at the Queen's Theatre in Dorfet-Garden -and dedica¬ ted to Col. Edmund Ajhton. Plot from Eajlward Hoe, and The De¬ vil's an Afi. A Duke and no Duke, a Farce, 4to. 1685. a&ed by their Maje- ilies Servants; and dedicated to, the Right Honourable, Sir John JHervyt. In this Play are divers Songs fet to Mufick with thorough Bafles for the Theorbo or Bafs-Viol. Plot from Trappelin fuppofed a Prince. The Ingratitude of a Common-Wealth; or, The Fall of Cuius Mar- fmCoriolanus ;aTragi-Comedy,4fo. 1682.afted at the Theatre Royal, and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Charles, Lord Herbert, Mar- quefs of WorceJIer. Part of this Play borrowed from Shakefpeafs icriolanw. T Nahum Tate, Efq^ The 14° Known AUTHORS. T The Ijland Priticefs, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1687. and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Henyy> Lord Walgrave. Reviv'd with Alterations from Fletcher. The Loyal General, a Tragedy, 4to. 1680. afted at the Duke's , Theatre ; and is dedicated to Edward Taylor, Efq; Lear, King of England, and his Three Daughters; an Hiftorical Play, 4to. 1687. afted at the Duke's Theatre ; it is Dedicated to Thomtts Boteler, Efq-, and reviv'd with Alterations from Shake [pear; and now call'd, The Ancient Hiftory of King Lear, &c. Richard the Third; or, The Sicilian Vfurper ; a Hiftory, 4to. 1681. a died at the Theatre Royal, and dedicated to George Raynf- ford, Efq; with a Prefatory Epiftle in Vindication of the Author by Reafon of the Prohibition of this Play on the Stage. Reviv'd from Shakejpear. This our Author has publirti'd divers Poems on feveral Occafi- ons, fome of them printed 8m one Volume whereof are all his own, another Volume by feveral Hands. John Tateham. GIty Poet in King Charles the Firft's Time. Mr. Langbain has found out a pleafant Compenfation for his want of Wit, vi%. his Loyalty, which might be fomething to attone for the Defefts of a Servants Brains, but I think very little for thofe of a Poet. The DiftraZled States a Tragedy, qto. 16 $1. This Play was written Ten Years before printed, and is dedicated to Sir John Sidley. The Rump •, or, The Mirrour of the late Times ; a Comedy, 4to. 1661. afted at the private Houfe in Dorfet-Court, and dedicated to Walter James, Efq; This Play has been reviv'd under the Title of The Roundheads. For the Plot confult our EnglifJ) Chronicles of the Civil Wars. Scots Vagaries; or, A Knot if Knaves; a Comedy, 4*0. 1652. and dedicated to Robert Dormer, Efq; This Play is writ in a Scotch VialeZl. Love Crowns the End, a Tragi-comedy, 8vo. 1657. afted by tlie Scholars of Brtngham in the County of Nottingham. This Play is very fhort and net divided into Afts j you may find it printed with his Poems, 1657. 8m Robert Known AUTHORS. T Robert Taylor. TH E Author of one Play, call'd, The Hog has loft hii Pearly a Comedy, divers times publickly afted by certain London Prentices. Thomas Thompfon. a Poor Plagiary, that could not difguife or improve his Thefts. Tiiefe two following Plays go under his Name; vi%. The Englifh Rogue, a Comedy, 4*0. 1668. afted (fays the Title) before feveral Perfons of Honour, with great Applaufe,and dedica¬ ted to Mrs. Alice Barret. Mother Shipton, her Life 4to. The Author hereof fays, 'twas afted "Nine Days together, with great Applaufe. Plot from a Book fo called in Profe, 4to. but mod of the Characters and Lan¬ guage from The City Madam, and The Chajl Maid of Cheapfide. ft Nicholas Trot, HE writ one Play, call'd, Arthur, a Tragedy. Richard Tuks. Alfthor of a Play that reprefents the Danger of the Soul in this World, and was once called The Souls Warfarej now, The Divine Comedian or, The right Vfe of Flays, improv'd in a SacredjTragi-Comedy, 4*0.1672. and dedicated to the Right Ho¬ nourable, Mary, Countefs of Warwick S. Take- A N Ejjex Gentleman, a Collonel, who in i66\. tranflated a Play ^ from the Spanifh, called, The Adventurers of Five Hours, a Tragi-Comedy 4to. 1662. be¬ ing the Second Edition it is dedicated to the Right Honourable, Henry Howard, of Norfolk. This Play is of good Repute. Cyril 142 Known AUTHORS. V Cyril Turner. AN Author who writ in the Time of King James the Firft, tw© Plays, entituled, The At hafts Tragedy, 4 to. The Conveyance away of Sebaftian and Frefco, on her Husband's approach, is taken from Boccaces No„ vels, Day 7. Nov. 6. The Loyal Brother3 or, The Revenger s Tragedy, 4to. John Tut chin. a Gentleman of thofe Times, wlio has writ one Play, call'd, The Unfortunate Shepherd, a Paftoral, 8vo. 11583. This is printed with a Piece call'd, A Difcourfe of Life, in Profe 3 and fome Poems on feveral Occafions, 8vo. V Captain Van Brug. THO' this Gentleman's Modefty has hitherto hindred him from fetting his Name to any of the Plays that he has Writ, yet they are fo Univerfally known to be his, and own'd by him to the Stage by all other ways, that it cannot reafonably be taken amifs by him, to find his Name here, lince it is not in the Power of En- vy to mention it, without the higheft Value and Efteem. This Gentleman, as I am informed, was born in Cheflrire, and by me»re than a Common Education, and Converfe with the beft Company qualified for thefe Performances, which have got him the Prefe¬ rence to all our Modern Writers of Comedy, lince Mr. Wycherlyy and Sir. George Etheridge have left the Stage 3 and with all the due Refpeft that I owe thofe two great Men, I muft place Mr, Van Brug in their Form, for the fprightlinefs of his Wit, the ea- finefs, and at the fame time, force of the Converfation of his Plays are fuch, that none elfe can ftand in Competition with him, Methinks in the Comparifonof his Plays, withmofl of our other Drammatic Pieces, there is the fame difference, which there is be¬ twixt the Draughts of Van Dike, Titian, and other great Maflersbf former Days, and fome of our beft Painters now 3 thefe are in- Known AUTHORS. V 143 deed good Reprefentations, but his are the things they Reprefent; (if you'll pardon that feeming Contradiction of the ExprefTion) many of our Writers have given us good Images of the Fools of our Age, but they are ftill but Images; but when you read or fee Mr. Van Brug s, you fee the very Originals, all is fo free, fo eafie and fo bold, as perfvvade them to be 110 Copies, you evidently fee the Lineaments of Nature, without the ftifnefs of Art, which would but debafe his Work. Others of our Comic Writers, who have fucceeded moll in that way, pick out Characters that are in¬ deed diverting enough on the Stage, but which fcarce one fenfible Man in a Thoufand can read in his Chamber, fomuch is left to the Aftion : But Mr. Van Brags Characters are Compos'd of that part of Nature, which is not fo Monftrous tn fliock the Reader, or Naufeate his Palate, but which yield apleafmg Entertainment; he puts Folly into fuch a Light, that it is as diverting to the Reader as Spectator ■, and his Fools are fo pleating, that you are not weary of their Company before they leave you. Another Quality diftinft from many of our Received Poets, is, That his Men of Wit are really fo, and not like Mr. ShadvreU's the dulleft in the Play : I have ventured to fay all this, without either the Profpeft of Encolpm in Petronius Arbiter, VtforisCena- ris Poet am Laudajii, or the fear of that Wity Cenfure of The Plain Dealer, for choofmg to fatter the Poets of the Age, rather than not flatter at all. Becaufe one that is unknown,can have but little ex¬ pectations of the former,or juftly deferve the latter,when he fpeaks but what is juftly his due-, nnlefs the Praile of Wit be as unallow¬ able as fuperfluous. He has Honoured his Country with three Plays that he owns : Of thefe in their Order. Mfop, A Comedy 4to. Afted at the Theatre Royal, 1697. In the i Preface vve learn both the Fate of the Play, and that the Author owes his Foundation to the French for it was writ Originally in French by Mr.Bourfaut, and had almoft the fame Fate there as here, as to its Succefs the firft day it was not lik'd, the next it fcarce gain'd Ground, the third it held up its Head, and the fourth Tri- i umphed, and was in Paris Acted for near a Month together. It is fo far from wanting any Beauties of the French,that it e'ry where excels it ^ and that extreamly diverting Scene of Sir Polydorus Hog- ! Jfye, may be faid to be entirely his own, as are all the three Scenes that were fmce added of the" Vlayers, the Senator and the Bea^ and which were receiv'd with Univerfal Applaufe, as indeed they juftly merited. It will perhaps be wondered that it fliould ACt fo very often in Paris, and not hold out a Fortnight nor ten days here for which there may be two Reafons Affigned : Fit ft, ir] Paris there is not that foolifh and extravagant Prejudice againfl the Stage, as is entertain'd in a numerous Party of this City, who rail againfl that and Common Prayer with an equal Zeal: So that in * Park 144 Known AUTHORS. V Paris almoft e'ry one goes to the Theatre, here not the tenth part* for Hypocrifie and Bufinefs here, divide the greater part to their feveral and different Offices: Another Reaibn is, That the Gover- nours of the Houfe were unwilling to wear it out, and fo balk'd the Run of it. I am not ignorant of the feveral Objeftions made againft this Play by the Criticks, that the Scenes are loofe, and not at all akin to the Plot, and may be cut out and alter'd in perpetuus, without the leaft Injury or Advantage to the thin and frail Defign of the Play ; that in Lydia, before the time of Alexander the Great, they talk of Juftices of the Peace, Fox Hunting, Flanders Horfes and other things which are entirely Modern but at the fame time that thefe Accufations muft be confefs'd not to be ill grounded ; it muft be own'd, that without tliefe Faults we muft have loft Beauties of greater Conference. This I'm fure, there has never been on the Stage, a Play of more general Satyr fince the Pla'm Dialer • and there are fuch Publick and ufeful Morals re¬ commended to the Audience, that will be as beneficial to the Common-weal, as diverting to the immediate Spectators. The Provol( d Wife, a Comedy 4.to. Afted at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by his Majefty's Servants, 1697. Tofpeakof this Play as I ought, I fliou'd have the Pen of the Author who Writ it, and the recommending the Reader to a Perufal of it, is the • greateft Praife I can give it. But I cannot omit the Objections I have heard ulade to it, by fome of our Criticks, vi%. That it is a loofe Play, without Defign, or if there be a Defign, 'tis fuch a one as the juft Rules of Comedy exclude, fince it teaches the Wives how they ought to return the Brutality of their Husbands. I cannot by any means allow this Objection ; for the Defign feems to me as juft as the Reflections and Wit of it are poinant, the Con¬ vention lively and genteel; for it rather teaches Husbands how ' they ought to expert their Wives fliou'd make them a Return, if they ufe them as Sir John Brute did his; fuch Husbands may learn, . that flighted and abufed Virtue and Beauty, may be provoked to hearken to the prevailing Motives of Revenge. I can never think ;J any reafonable Man fliou'd fuppofe a Woman entirely diverted of l a fenfe of Humanity, or infenfible either of the Power of an agree¬ able Temptation, or of the Pleafure it yields: and as moil of our Vices are the fureft Guard, if not fource of our Virtues, I'm con¬ fident, when' the Husbands ill Ufage of his Wife deprives himfelf of her Love, he difmifles the fureft Guard of their common Ho¬ nour ; and the other, that is her Pride and Care of her Reputa¬ tion will not be of force enough againft Revenge ^ and the ftrong follicitationsof an agreeable Perfon, that demonftrates a value for what the Poffeffor flights : So that it cannot be deny'd, that this Moral is of admirable Ufe j aud offers a Truth Co our confidera- Known AUTHORS. W 14 9 tfon, which woud often prevent the Ruin of Families, which generally begins with the Husbands Faults.. I know of no Thefts in this Play, or indeed any of this Gentlemans, but what he has own'd in his Preface. The Relapfe, or Virtue in Danger, being the fequel to Loves laji Shift or The Fool in Faftion, 4to. A&ed at the Theatre Royal,, 1697. This Play was received with mighty applaufe, and fpight of the 1,1. broken Scenes, which muft be allowed an irregularity that might 5 have been avoided , has its juft and uncommon Merits; and I it think the Character of my Lord Foppington, if it at all fall fliort of that Ma ft er piece of Sir Fopling Flutter, at lea ft: challenges tha 5 next place, in preference to all of that kindj for the Stage has been almoft as Fruitful in Beaux, as the Boxes. The time when thele three Plays were written is uncertain j but all appeared in a little time of one another, and this which comes, is laft in the Alphabet, was the firft in the Reprefentation •, and as Ihe informs us in the Prologue, was Wrote in fix Weeks, a fign of a double Bleffing, of bringing forth without Pain, and even Chil¬ dren Perfect and Beautiful, without the* ufual nine Months Travel. vv Lewis J Yagerf ■ 4 ' ■ ■ 1 / ' ' HIS Author (who was a Clerk in Queen Elizabeth's time) was then accounted a Man of great Learning. He The- atrei 1 2 Dr.' Ksb, 148 Known AUTHORS. W Dr. Robert Wild» THis Author, tho' a Presbyterian Do ft or, writ one Play and divers Poems, but is moft famous for his Iter Boreale. The Play is intituled, The Benefice, a Comedy, 4to. 1689. The Defign taken from another Play, call'd, The Return from ParnaJJks j or, A Scourge for Simony. Leonard Will an. •T"H E Author of a Play, publifh'd one Pafloral in Verfe, call'd, Afirxa or, True Love's Mirrour a Paftoral, Svo. 1651. It is dedicated to the Illuftrious Princefs, Mary, Dutchefs of Rich¬ mond and Lenox. Plot from a Romance fo called* George If ilkjtis. HE liv'd in the Reign of King Charles the Firft, and writ (be. fides one he join d with Day and Rowley in) a Play, call'd, The Miferies of Inforced Marriage, a Tragi-comedy, 4to. 1637. Mrs. Behn took her Plot and great part of the Language of this Play, to her Town Fop; or, Sir Timothy Tawdry. The other Play he join'd in, is called, The Travels of Three Englifh Brothers. Robert Wilmot. A Poet of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, and at the Requeft of the Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple, writ, Tancred and Grifmond, a Tragedy, 4to. 1592. afted before her Majefty by the Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple \ and dedicated it to the Right Worfhipful and Vertuous Ladies, the Lady Mary Pe¬ ter, and the Lady Ann Grey. Plot, Nov. 1. Day 4. of Boccace's Novels. John Wilfon. a N Author of the Place of whofe Birth I am ignorant; he was once Recorder of Londonderry, and fometime refided in Dub¬ lin, where he writ Belphegor, which was afterwards afted in London He Known AUTHORS. W 149 He died about three Years fince, near Leicefler-Fields, but where buried I know not. He is Author of four Plays; viz. Andronicus Commenitu, a Tragedy, $to. 1663. Plot from Hey litis Cofmography in the Defcription of Greece, CantacufenKf, Lemclavi- w, der or Contrivance of his Uncle, are the Subjeft of this Play. SUPPO * Ift Supposed Authors. R. A. Gent. IS Author writ one Play, calTd, The Valiant Welch Man; or, The True Chronicle //?- 8 Jlory of the Life and Valiant Deeds of Charadoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called Wales 5 a Tragi¬ comedy, 4fa. 1 d6s;. afted by the Prince of Wales's Servants, the Plot from Vbaldine le vite del donne iUuJlre, p. 6. Tacitus Annalsy Milton's Hijlory of England, and from our Britifl) Chronicles. H. B. THis Author has publifh'd one Play, entituled, The Worlds Idol; or, Plutw, a Comedy, 8w. i6$o. Tranfla- ted from Ariflophanes, with Notes and a Difcourfe upon it. p. B. THE Mocli Duellijl; or, The French Vallet; a Comedy, fup- pofed to be writ by Peter BeUon, Gent. 4 to. 1675. afted at the Theatre Royal by his Majefty's Servants, and dedicated to the vertuous, accomplifhtLady, Madam S.C. U4 J. C> Suppofed AUTHORS. j. c. THis Author writ a very diverting Play, call'd, The Two Merry Milk. Maids or. The beji Words near the Garland, a Comedy, 4to. 1661. play'd before the King with great Applaufe, by the Company of the Revels. Part of the Plot from the Tenth Day, Nov. $. of Boccace's Novels, and is the Foundation of feveral Plays, as Fletcher's Four Plays in One, (?c. J.D. UNder thefe Two Letters are thefe Two Plays following : Hell's High Court of Juflice 5 or, The Tryal of Three Pcl't- tlcJ^GhoJis, vi%. Oliver Cromwell, King of Svveeden, and Cardinal Mazarine; a Tragedy, 4to. 1661. The Mall-, or, The Modijh Lovers; a Comedy, \to. 1674. afted by the King's Servants, and dedicated to William Whitcom, Junior, Efq; (fuppofed by Dr. Hide, the Proto-Bibliothicarm to the Univer- fity) to be Mr.Drydens, tho' it differs much from the Stile of his Works. R. G. THis Tranflator and Author was fome time Mafter of Arts of Magdalen-Colledge, Cxon -, publi/h'd Two Plays: Alphonfw, King of An agon, a comical Hiflory, 4 to. 1599. as it has been fundry times afted. Ignorccmur, a Comedy, 4to. 1662. very often afted with Ap¬ plaufe before King James the Fir ft, written originally in Latin and tranflated by our Author. & H. '"THis Author was of Exeter-Colledge, Oxon •, and whilft Batchelor of Arts, writ Sicily and Naples-, or, The Fatal Vnion-, a Tragedy, 4to. 1^40. There were feveral Copies of Yerfes in Praife of this Play, writ by the Students of Oxon. t s u p p o- 151 Supposed Authors. B. ND ER thefe Letters are printed thefe Two Plays: Guy, Earl of Warwick^ a Tragedy* 4to. faid by fome to be writ by Ben. Johnfort, tho much inferior to the Works of that excellent Poet. The Bajhful Lovers, a Tragi-Comedy, 8vo. 1655. a&ed at the Blacl^Fryars, by his Majefty's Servants. E. M. TTHis Author writ one Play, call'd, Saint Cecily-, or, The Converted Twins, a Tragedy, 4ft}. 1667. fuppofed to be writ by Mr. Matthew Medbourn, the Comedian, and dedicated to Queen Catharine. Plot From Eufebm, Bpiphanw, Baronmy &c. N. N. ROme's Follies-y or, The Amorous Fry or s, a Comedy, as it was lately afted at a Perfon of Quality's Houfe, 4to. 1681. This Play (which has been omitted by Mr. Langbain) is dedicated to the Right Honourable, Anthony, Earl of Shaftsbury. There's not enough in this Play to recommend it to the nicer Judges of Poe¬ try : Inftead of the Author's Name, we only find the Tvvo Let¬ ters above-mentioned. W. N. Huntington's Divertifement h or, An Interlude for the general Entertainment of the County Feaft, held at Merchant Tay~ lor s-HaU, printed, 4 to. 167$. by W.N. and dedicated to the No¬ bility and Gentry of that Country. ^ ^ ^ Suppofed AUTHORS. 7 T.P. Author has publifhed two Plays: The French Conjurer, a Comedy, 4 to. 1678. a died at the Duke's Theatre. Plot part of it from Gufman, in the Stories of Dorido and Clorjdia, and the Merchant of Sevil. A Witty Combat; or, The Female Viflor, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. X663. afted by feveral Perfonsof Quality. Plot from The German frincefs, a Novel, in 8vo. ?T*HisTranflator Publifh'd, Ariadne; or, The Marriage of Bacchusan Opera, 4^. 1674, ►tfted by the Royal Academy of Mufick at the Theatre Royal, and dedicated to the King j being a Vocal Reprefentation from the French, and fet to Mufick by Mr. Grabutt, Mafter of the King's Mufick. Roades, a Tragedy, 8vo. 1660. Suppofed to be writ by Samuel Pordage, and taken from Seneca. A Tpnflator, who publifh'd this one Play, call'd, * The Extravagant Shepherd, a Paftoral Comedy, 4to. 1654. fcnd dedicated to Mrs. Thovnehill, of Ollantigh, in Kent. Transi¬ ted from Corneille; Plot founded 011 Lyfi$ j or, Tfre Extravagant Shepherd a Romance, fol. CHriflmas Ordinary, a Private Shew ; wherein is exprefs'd the jovial Freedom of that Feftival; as it was afted at a Gentle- fnan's Houfe among other levels , printed 1682. This is x 'Piece that- falls into the Number of Dramatick Writings, tko there is net much to recommend it to this Place. The Author Monfieur P. P. S. F. T.R. W. R. Suppofed AUTHORS. i is not known, but there are two Letters of his Name put to the Title Page j (vt\.) W. R. Mafter of Arts.- The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth or, The Reftauration of the Proteftanp Religion, &c. Mr. S. Matter of Arts. Y H E Author of this ancient Play, printed in a Black Letter, is ftyled by him, A right Pithy, Pleafant, and Merry Comedy, called, Gammer Our ton's Needle; a Comedy, 4*0. 1 $61. afted at Chrifl's- Cdlege, Cambridge, near a Hundred Years ago. j. s. UNder thefe Two Letters are publifh'd thefe following Plays, vi%. Andromana 5 or, The Merchants Wife, a Tragedy, 4.to. 1660. Plot from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, in the Story of Plangnt, p. 1 $5. • Mafquerade du del, a Mafque \to. 1640. and dedicated to the Queen. PhiUU of Scyros, a Paftoral, 4to. 1655. Tranflated from the Italian of C. Guidubaldo di Bonarelli. The Prince of Priggs Revels*, or, The Prafiifes of that grand Thief Captain James Hinde, a Comedy, 4to. This Piece I cou'd never yet get a Sight of, s. s. TTHis Author publifh'd only this flngle Play, entituled, The Honejl Lawyer, a Comedy, 4*0.1616. afted by the Queen's Servants. j. UNder thefe two Letters we may find two Plays printed, vi^. Grim, the Collier of Croyden •, or, The Devil and his Dam, with the Devil of St. Dunftans, a Comedy, 8 vo. 1662. Plot from Machiavel"s Marriage of Belphegor, a Novel, fol. 'tis alfo printed With Quevedos Novels, 8 vo. and in the Ternary of Plays. ■ proas, ^ Tragedy, 4*0. 1686. tranflated from Seneca. ij4- Supfofid AUTHORS. c. w. *TTHis Author is fuppofed to be Chrijlopher Wafe, late one of the Squire-Beadles of Oxford, who publifh'd a Play call'd, Eleftim, a Tragedy, 12. Hague, 1549. prefented to her High- Befs the Lady Elizabeth. Tranflated from Sophocles. E. W. ON E who does not .pretend to be the Author, but the Occa- fion of publifhing this fingle Play 5 Apollo Shroving, a Comedy, 8vo. 1627. writ by the Mafler of Hadleigh-School in Suffolk, and afted there by his Scholar's. j. UNder thefe two Letters is printed one Play, call'd, The Valiant Scot. 4to. 167,1. publifh'd by William Bawyer, and dedicated to the Right Honourable, James, Marques of Hamil¬ ton. L.W. UNder thefe two Letters the Author publifh'd this Play, en¬ titled, Orgula or, The Fatal Error, a Tragedy, 4to. 16 $8. and dedi¬ cated to the moft accomplifh'd Lady, the Lady Frances Wildegoofs', with a Preface /hewing the true Nature of Poefie. M. W. Matter of Arts. TT H E Second Author who has this Play in the Ternary of Plays, vi^. The Marriage-Broker -y or, The Pander ■, a Comedy, 8vo. 1662. Plot from Englijh Chronicles, in the Reign of Sebert, King of the Wejl Saxons. R.W. Suppofed AUTHORS. iff R. W. s ' > TTHis ancient Author publifh'd a Play many Years ago, which Mr. Langbain gave a wrong Title to, by reafon he never faw it, and is entituled, The Three Ladies of London. T. W. •THE Third Author who has this following Tragedy, in theTer~ nary of Plays, call'd, Thornby-Abby ; or, The London Maid, a Tragedy 8vo. and dedi* cated to Wiliiam Aujlin, Efq-, by R. D. thle Publifher} and tranfla- ted from Flautw. w. w. I THE Tranflator of this following Comedy, calPd, Manstehmi, a Comedy, /[to. 1515. This Author had feveral others tranflated, tho1 never publifh'd them. UNKNOWN i $6 Unknown Authors, H E Abdicated Prince \ or, The Adventures of Four Tears; a Tragt-Comedy, 4to. 1690. afted at White- Hall, by feveral Perfons of Quality. Abraham's Sacrifice, mentioned in former Catalogues, but I queftion whether it may be properly called a Play, Mr. Langbaw, or my felf, having never feen it. An Alarum for London ; or, The Siege of Antwerp•, with the Ad¬ venturous Afts, and Valiant Deeds of the Lame Soldier ; a Tragi¬ comedy, 4to. 1602. play'd by the Servants the Right Honoura¬ ble, the Lord Chamberlain. Plot from the Tragical Hiftory of the City of Antwerp, 4to. Albion, an Interlude, mentioned in former Catalogues, but ne¬ ver met with by Mr. Langbainy or my felf Albion 's Triumph, a Mafque, 4to. 1631. perfonated at Court by the King, Queen, and the Lords, the Sunday after Twelfth- Night, 1(531. Albumaxer, a Comedy, 4^0. 1634. play'd at Cambridge before the King, by the Gentlemen of Tnnity-Colledge; afterwards revi¬ ved at the King's Houfe with a new Prologue writ by Mr. Vryden. Aminta, a Paftoral, 4to. 1628. Tranflated from TaJJos Aminta, with Ariadne's Complaint, in Imitation of Anguilara. The Amorous Gallant; or, Love in Fafhion fometimes under the Title of The Amorous Orontut *, a Comedy, 4^0. 1675. Tranfla- ted from a French Play, writ by Th. Corneille, ftiled, L'Amour Alamode ■, the Plot from a Spanifh Play writ by Ant. de Solis, named, El Amor al Vfo. The Amorous Old Woman , or, 'Tis well if it take, a Comedy, 4to. 1684. 'tis alio printed with another Title, call'd, The Fond Lady. Andronicus, a Tragedy, Impiety s Long Succefs-, or, Heaven's late Revenget 8vo. 1661. This Play is not mentioned by Mr. Langbain, nor can I learn who is the Author thereof. Arden Unknown AUTHORS. C 157 Arden of Fever/ham, his true and lamentable Tragedy, who was barbaroufiy furthered by the means of his Wife, who being in Love with one Mofebie, hired two Ruffins, Blacky Will and Shak? bag to kill him, 4^0. 1599. Plot from Goodwin, Hayward, Hol- lingfhead, Baker, and Beard's Theatre of God's Judgments. The Arraignment of Parti, a Paftoral, fuppofed by Kirk man to be Mr. William Shakefpear's. B T HE Baniftid Duke, or, The Tragedy of Infortunatuo • 4?*?. 16 go. afted at the Theatre Royal. The Battle of Alcazar, Fought in Barbary, between Sebaftian, King of Portugal; Abdelmelech, 0/" Morocco ; mYA Death of Captain Stukely, a Tragedy, 4*0. 1594. afted by the Lord High Admiral's Servants. Plot from Heylins Cofmography in the Hiftory of Spain } De reinj Lufitan. by Andr. Schottum, /s/. and Fuller's Worthies. Band, Ruff, and Cuff-, accounted an Interlude in former Cata¬ logues, but neither Mr. Langbain nor my felf, could ever pro- cure the Sight of one. The Baftard, a Tragedy, 4*0. 1552. Plot and part of the Lan¬ guage is taken from The Loves of Schiarra and Florelia, in the Eng~ lifJj Lovers. See alfo TheVnfortunate Spaniard. The Bloody Duke or, The Adventures for a Crown, a Tragi-Co- medy, 4 to. 16 go. by the Author of The Abdicated Prince-, afted at the Court of Alba Regalti, by feveral Perfons of Quality. Bonduca, with an Entertainment of Mufick, Vocal and Inftru- mental, a Tragedy afted at the Theatre in Dorfet-Garden, 16g6. 4to. and dedicated by Nr. Parrel to the Right Honourable, the Lord Jefferys. This Play on the Revival (for it is fcarce to be faid more) tho' the two Univerfities club'd to the Alterations, did not fucceed fo well as it deferv'd, confidering it almoft all Fletcher's. Braggadocio-, or, The Bawd turn'd Puritan,* Comedy, 4 to. 16'go. by a Perfon of Quality. c CJEfafs Revenge, a Tragedy, of which I can give no Account. Charles the Fir ft, King of England, his Tragedy, 4 to. \6\g. and dedicated to King Charles the Second, with a Copy of Verfes in Praife of it. Plot from Englifi Chronicles. The iy8 Unknown AUTHORS. C The Combat of Caps, a Mafque which is mentioned in divers Ca¬ talogues, but I could never fee one. The Commmons Condition, a Comedy, of which I can give no Ac¬ count. The Conjiant Nymph -, or, The Rambling Shepherd, a Paftoral, 4tdi 1678. atted at the Duke's Theatre. The Cornifh Comedy, a Comedy, 4to. 1696. afted at the Theatre Royal in Dorfet-Garden, by his Majefty's Servants, this Play was writ by a CorniJJ,; Attorney, as I am inform'd, who had better have kept to the other Offices of the Quii, fc very different from thofe of Parnajfm. 'Tis dedicated by Mr. Powel to Chriflopher Rich, Efq-, one of the Patentees of his Majefty's Theatre; and ufher'd in, like other Plays that mifs of Succefs, with a Preface in its Vindication, let its Fate be never fo juft. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth-, or, The Rejiauration of the Proteftant Religion, and the Downfalof the Pope, 4to. 1680. being a moft excellent Play, as it was afted both at Bartholomew ana Southward Fairs, with great Applaufe. This is only a Droll, but the Succefs the Current of the Times gave it, met with a Book- feller to make it pafs the Prefs but there is no great Poetry to be expected from it, or any Mailery of Defign or Conduft; yet if the Readers have a mind to fee a particular Account of the Tranfr aftions of that glorious Queen, I wou'd advife them, be/ides our Chronicles of Stove, Speed, Baker, <£rc. to read the great Cambdens Elizabeth, and Dr. Burnet's Hiftory of the Reformation. The Cojlly Whore, a comical Hiftory, 4to. 1633. a&ed by the Company of Revels. The Contention between Tori1 and Lan:after, two Parts, with the Death of the good Duke Humphrey, and the Banijhment and Death of the Dul^e of Suffolk, and the Tragical End of the Proud Cardinal of Winchefter, with the notable Rebellion of Jack Cade, and the Duke of York's firji Claim to the Crown, a Tragedy, 4to. 1600. This Play differs very little from the fecond Part of Shakefpeafs Henry the Sixth, fol. The Counterfeits, a Comedy, 4to. 1679. "afted. at the Duke's Theatre. Plot from a tranflated SpaniHi Novel, called, The Tra- panner Trapann d, 8vo. 1^55. Some account this Play to be John Leanard's, a great Plagiary. < The Counterfeit Bridegroom •, or, The Defeated Widow • a Comedy,* 4fo. 11577. a^ed at his Royal Highnefs the Duke's Theatre. Tis only an old Play of Middletoris, call'd, No Wit like a Wofnans, 8 vo. CromweWs Conjpiracy, a Tragi-Comedy. This I never law. Cruel Unknown AUTHORS. E 15-9 Cruel Debtor, a Play only nam'd by Mr. Kirkman, but I never faw any fuch. Cupid's Whirligig, a Comedy, 4 to. 1616. feverai times afted by the Children of his Majefty's Revels, and dedicated by the Publifih- er, to Mr. Rob. Hayman. Plot, Biccaces Novels, fol. Cyrus, King of Perfia ■, a Tragedy. D DAmon and Pythias, a Hiftory. Darius, (fliled ) a pretty new Interlude, both pithy and Pleafant, of the Story of King Darin, being taken out of the third and fourth Chapter of Efdras. Lond. 1565. 4to. This is a good old Play, and the Author has fo contriv'd it, that Six Perfons may eafily aft it. The Title Page refers the Reader to the Place where (if his Curiofity requires it) he may read the Story. The Debauchee or, The Credulous Cuckold; a Comedy, 4to. 1677. afted at his Highnefs the Duke of Tory's Theatre. 'Tis a Play of Broome's reviv'd, calPd, A Mad Couple well matched. The Deftruftion of Jerufalem. Dicf^Scorner, mentioned to be a Play in Mr. Knkman\ Catalogue. The Divine Mafque, 4to. dedicated tQ General Monl^, by one Anthony Sadler. E ED ward the Third, his Reign, a Hiftory, 4 to. 1599. fundry times play'd about the City of London. Plot from our old EngliJJ) Chronicles. Edward the Third, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March, a Hiftory, 4to. 1590. afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeilies Servants j and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Henry, Lord Vifcount Sidney. Plot from the EnglijJ) Chronicles, vide Walfing- Ikm, du Chefne, Grafton, Stow, Speed, M.WeJhninJier, Fabian, Fro- ijfart, Fol. Virgil, Hollingfhead, 1foe. as alfo AEfchafms Major, and a Novel tranflated from the French, fliled, TheCountefs of Salif- bury, 81>0. Elvira, or, The Worjl not always True a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1667. This is by fome afcribed to the Lord Digby. The Emprefs of Morocco, a Farce, 4to. 1674* afted by his Ma;e- fty's Servants. Said to be writ by Tho. Duffet. Englijh Men for Money; or, A Woman will have her Will •, a very pleafant Comedy, 4*0. 16$6. often afted with great Applaufe. The i6o Unknown AUTHORS. F The Englifl) Princes •, or, The Death of Richard the Third■, a Tra¬ gedy, 4to. 1673. This Play is afcribed to John Carel, and writ in Heroick Vcrfe. Plot from HoUingftead, Speed, Balder, Stow, Fabian, Grafton, Fo/. Virgil, <&c. Enough's as good as a Feaji, a Comedy. £fe>7 Woman in her Humour, a Comedy, 4/0. 1609. F THE Faftioui Citizen 5 or, 77;e Melancholy Vifioner; a Comedy, 4/0. r i5 8 5. afted at the Duke's Theatre. The Faithful Shepherd, a Paftoral, 4ft?. Plot from Guarims II Fajlor Fido. Fair Em, the Miller s Daughter of Manchefler■, with the Love of William the Conqueror, a pleafant Comedy,4^. 1631. often afted in the City of London, by the Servants of the Right Honourable, the Lord Strange. The Fairy Queen, an Opera, 4to. 1692. reprefented at the Queen's Theatre, by their Majefties Servants. There's a Preface prefixt to it, in Defence of Opera's, <&c. Tis wholly borrowed from thc.Midfummer-Nigbfs Dream, of Shakefpear, tho' there is no fuch Acknowledgment by this Author. The Fair Maid of Bnfiow, a Comedy, 4to. 1605. play'd before the King and Queen at Hampton Court. The Falfe Favourite Difgracd, and the Reward of Loyalty ■, a Tra- gi-Comedy, 8vo. 1657. This Play is afcribed to George Gerbier D'Ouvilly, but never afted. The Fatal Jealoufie, a Tragedy, 4to. 1673. afted at the Dukes Theatre, and afcribed by fome to Mr. Pane. Plot from Johannes Gigas's Pojlills •, fee alfo Theatre of God's Judgments, part 2. p. 55. Unfortunate Lovers, Nov. 1. The Feign d Aftrologer, a Comedy, '4to. 1668. tranflated from the French of Monfieur Corneille, Junior. Plot from Calderons El Aflrologo fing'tdo. Fideleand Fortunatm, in former Catalogues has been afcribed to one Barker. Fiord's Vagaries, a Comedy, 4to. 1670. afted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majefty's Servants ^ afcribed to Mr. Rhodes. Plot is founded on Boccace's Third Day, Nov. 3. The Folly of Priejlcraft, a Comedy, 4to. 1690. The Fond Lady, a Comedy, 4to. The fame with The Amorm Old Woman, only different Titles. free- Unknown AUTHORS. I l$l Free-Will, a Tragedy, tranflated from the Italian, by H.C. fun- $>ofed to be Henry Cheel ¥ id gun and Lucrelle, I can fay nothing of this PJay, havin • ne¬ ver leen it. G rf HE Gentile Craft, fee Shoomd\ers Holiday, which is the fame PJay. The Ghofi or, The] Woman wears the Breeches, a Comedy, writ in the Year, 1640. and printed 4to. 1650. * H T HE Hettor; or, The Falfe Challenge • a Comedy, 4^. 1656. Henry the Fifth, with the Battel of A gen-Court •, a Hiftory, 4^0. 1617. afted by the King's Majefty's Servants. Plot from the Englij}} Chronicles, 6Yok>, Speed, Balder, foe. Hiflriomafirix } or, The Player wbipt, a Comedy, 4*0. itfio. This Play was writ in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Hoffman hit Tragedyor, A Revenge for a Father ; atted with great Applaufe, at the Fh&nix in Drury-Lane, dedicated by Hugh Perry, to his Honoured Friend Mr. Richard Kilvert. How to chufe a good Wife from a Bad one, a pleafant conceited Comedy, 4*0. 1634. feveral times afted by the fervants of the Earl of Worcefier. The Foundation of this Play is taken from a Novel m Cynthio Giraldi, Dec, 3. Nov. 5. the Story of Anfelmes favingof young Arthurs Wife, is related in feveral Novels ^ vide the Ninth Novel of The Pleafant Companion (printed in 8vo. London, 1684.) ftil'd, Love in the Grave. I JAcl^Vrums Entertainment\ or, The Comedy of Pafquil and Cathe¬ rine, 4to. 1616. feveral times afted by the Children of Pauls, Mammons poyfoning of Catherines Face, refembles the Ufage of dernagorat to Parthenia>, in Arguhts and Parthenia. jack, Jugter, a Comedy, according to old Catalogues, but J could never procure one. Jack-straw's Life and Death, a notorious Rebel in England, who was kill'd in Smithfeld by the Lord Mayor of London, 4to. 1593- This Play is divided into but Fpur Arts. Plot in the Englij)) Chro- M meles, 162 Unknown AUTHORS. K nicies, viz. Baker, Speedy Stow, 8cc. in the Reign of King Richard the Second. Jacob and Efau, an Interlude, this Play, as it is eafy to be per¬ ceived, is founded on Scripture. SeeGenefis, Chap. 25,26, foe. See alio Jofephm, Lib. 1. Tornelli Annates, &c. James the Fourth, a Hiftory. The Play is founded on the King of Scotland of that Name. Jeronymo, the Firfl Part, with the Wars of Portugal ♦, or, The Spanifh Tragedy, a Tragedy, 4/0. 1605. containing the Life and Death of John Andr&a. Jeronymo ii mad again or, The Spanifh Tragedya Tragedy* containing the lamentable End of D. Horatio and Bellimperin, with the pitiful Death of Jennymo, 4to. 1627,. There are fome Au¬ thors that have quoted feveral Lines out of this Play, viz. Ben. Johnfon in Every Man in his Humour, Shirley in his in a Cage, (Arc. Impatient Poverty, ftiled a Comedy by fome Catalogues. T/;e Imperial Tragedy fol. 166 p. a fled at the Nurfery in Barbi¬ can, Plot from Marcellinui and Caffiodorus, in their Chronicles about Zew/j; fee alfo, Baronius, Godeau, Zonarus, (£rc. 'tis by fome afcri- bed to Sir William Ki Hi grew, and tranflated from the Latin. The Interlude of Touth, a ferious, old, inftruftive Piece, written in Verfe in 4^0. 7o/j« f/je Evangelijl, The Title page of this alfo fliews the Sub- jeft Divine. The Jovial Crew ; or, The "Devil turned Ranter ; an Interlude, 4to. 16 $1. This is a Charafter of The Roaring Ranters of thofe Times reprefented in a Comedy. Ing Edgar and Alfred a, a Hiftory, 4 to. Plot from Englijh Chro- The King and Queens Entertainment at Richmond, after their leaving Oxford, in a Mafque, prefented by the moft Uluftrious Prince Charles, September 12. 1636. and dedicated to her Maje- fly, the Queen of Great Britain, by a Copy of Verfes. A Knacli how to lyiow an hemeji Man, a Comedy, 4to. 15 96. 'Tis entituled a pleafant conceited Comedy, as it has been fundry times play'd about the City of London. A Knacky how to know a Knave, a very pleafant and merry Come¬ dy, 4to. 1594. feveral times afted by Edw. Allen, with Kemp's ap¬ plauded Merriments of the Men of Goteham, in receiving the King into Goteham. Plot from the Story of King Edgar> Ethen- K nicies. wald- Unknown AUTHORS. L *paid and Alfredo. ; fee alfo Walfingham, Grafton, Malmesbury, 3Yo»'9 ere. The Knave in Grain new vampt, a Comedy, 4^. 1540. afted aC the Fortune with very great Applaufe. Knavery in all Trades ■, or, The Coffee-Houfe ; a Comedy, 4to* i66\. afted in the Chrijlmof Holy-days, by feveral Apprentices with great Applaufe. The Knight of the Golden Shield. See Sir Clyomon. L *p//£ Lady Alimony} or, The Alimony-Lady - an excellent plea- fant Comedy, 4to. 1659. duly authoril'cd, daily afted, and frequently followed. The Late Revolution-, or, The Happy Change a Tragi-Comedy, afted throughout the Englifh Dominions, in the Year 1688. writ¬ ten by a Perfon of (Quality, and printed in 4to. 1690. the Epi- ftle Dedicatory is to all true Englifh Men, ^rc. This Ptey or Sto¬ ry is what the Title Bears, vi%. The Tr an fail ions of the Late Kings leaving the Nation. The Laws of Nature, a Comedy, by former Catalogues; but I que ft ion whether any fuch. The Levellers Levelled • or, The Independents Confpiracy to mot out Monarchy an Interlude written by Mercurius Pragmaticus, 4to» 1647. This is dedicated to the late King Charles the Second. Liberality and Prodigality, a Comedy. Lingua■, or, The Combat of the Tongue and the five Senfes fir Superiority , a pieafant Comedy, 4to. Mr. Winjianly fays, that oil- iter Cromwell, the late Ufurper, afted the part of LaVtus, in Cam- bridge, which fir ft infpir'd him with Ambition. London Chanticlers, a witty Comedy, full of various and de¬ lightful Mirth, often afted with great Applaufe, and printed 4^0. 165 9. Lool> about you, a pieafant Comedy, 4to. 1600. play'd by the Servants of the Right Honourable, Lord High Admiral. For the Hifiprical Part, fee the Englifh Chronicles -, viz. Balder, Speed., Pol. Virgil, Daniel, foe. in the Reign of King Henry the Second. The Loft Lady, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. Love A-U-mode, a Comedy, 4 to. 1667,. afted at Middle fix « Houfe, with great Applaufe. This Play is juftified by the Author, who, if we believe the Title Page, is a Perfon of Honour. . ; Love's Loadjhne, a Comedy, 4to. of which I refer you to fm' Letter P. where you may find fome Account of it under the Title of Pat horn ac hi a ;' or, 7 he Battle of 4ffeiiions- ; which is the fame ,53°- M 2 164. Unknown AUTHORS. M Luminali a■, or, The Feflival of tight-, a Mafque, 4 to. 1637. tins was perfonated (the fame Year) on Shrove-Tuefday-Night, by the (Queen's Majefty and her Ladies. Mr. Inigo Jones aflif ted in it. M MAnhood and Wifdom, a Play mentioned in other Catalogues, Marcus T'dims Cicero, that famous Orator, his Tragedy, 4^. 1651. writ in Imitation of Catiline's Conspiracy, by Johnfon. Plot Plutarch in vita Ciceroris, Appian, Dion, Lambin, &c. Marriage of Wit and Science, an Interlude. Majler Turbulent -, or, The Melancholic!^ a Comedy, <\to.1 <532. & it was acted at the Duke's Theatre. Mafque of Flowers, 4to. 1614. prefented at the Eanquetting- Houfe at White-Hall, by the Gentlemen of Grays-Inn, on Twelfth- Night, 1631. It is dedicated to Sir Franck Bacon, then Attorney General. Majjianello, hit Tragedy, or, The Rebellion of Naples 8vo. 167,1, This is dedicated to John C/>)/« ci Mohammad,1 2da. expugnata, foU. > The Siege and Surrender of Mons, a Tragi-Comedy, expofing the Yiilany of thePriefts, and the Intreagues of the French, 1681. 4to, ..This wgs never a died, and is built 011 the publick News, and pri- <; 'titte Reports of that Siege: •w i * •; v'lt Unknown AUTHORS. S 169 Sir Clyomon, Knight of the Golden-Shield, Son to the King of Den¬ mark •, flniClamydesj White Knight, ,So?i fo the King of Suavia, (both Valiant Knights) their Hiftory, 4^0. 1599. Sir Giies Goofe-Capt Knight • a Comedy, 4fo. 1636. afted at the private Houfe in Salisbury-Court, with great Applaufe. This was publifh'd by one Ferry, and dedicated to Richard. Young, Efq-, ' Sir Solomon ■ or, The'Cautious-Coxcomb-, a Comedy, /[to. 1671. afted at his Royal Highnefs, the Duke of Tories Theatre. This is* moftly a Translation from Moliere's L'Ecole des Femmes, and moft :agree done by Mr. Corel. This Play, tho'met with fome Ene¬ mies, yet found Succefs in the Aftion -, and afterwards the Author printed ajuftification of it. • * • Salmon and Perfeda, their Tragedy ; wherein is laid open Love's Conftancy, Fortune's Inconftancy, and Death's Triumphs; 4to. 1599. This old Play, with the before-going long Title, is not divided in¬ to Afts. * The Sophifler, a Comedy, <[to. 1 <5 3 8- This Play, tho'printed, was not, I believe, ever a fled. The SpanijJ) Bawd-, or, Calif 0 and Melibea, reprefented in Cele- Jlina, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. 1631. The Play is very long, and :,was originally writ in SpaniJ)j, and done into EnglifJ) by Von Diego Fuedefer,a Spaniard-, who alfo tranflated another Book into Englifh, called, Exemplary Novels, fol. There are Twenty Four Afts in The Spanifb Bawds. Sport upon Sport *, Drolls, 8vo. This is a Collection of Drolls taken from Plays, by Kirkman, and printed 1673. The Step-Mother, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1664. afted at the The¬ atre in Little Lincoln>:-lnn-Fields, by his Highnefs, the Duke of Tory's Servants. The Strange Difcovery, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1640. Plot and Language from Heliodonu's ZEthiopick, Hifl. Svo. Book 10. Sufauna's Tedrs. The Subjefts Joy-, or, 7he Kings Rejiauration, cheerfully made known in a facred Mafque, &lc. 4to. 1660. dedicated to the Lord General Monk. ThisMafque has been omitted by Mr. Langbain. Swetnam, the Woman-Hater, arraign d by Women, a Comedy, /[to. 1620. afted at the Red-Bull, by the Queen's Servants. Plot from an old Spanifl) Book, call'd, Hifloria de Aurelia, Jfabella Hija del Rey de Efcotia, &c. 12?no. and from an EnglijJ) Pamphlet, entitu- fed, The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward\ and Inconjhnt We- knart* T Tempt Unknown AUTHORS. T T TEmpe Keftored a Mafque, 4(0. 1631. This was prefentedon Shrove-Tuefday, at White-Haiti to his Majefly, by the Queen and fourteen Ladies of Honour. The Defcriptions, &c. of the Scenes were invented by Mr. Inigo Jones. Therfytes, an Interlude. Tiberius (Claudius Nero) his Tragical Life and Death, a Trage¬ dy, 4 to. 16 . Plot from Suetonius, Dion, Tacitus, &c. Timoleon; or, The Revolution-, a Tragi-Comedy, London, printed 1697. 4^0. and dedicated to his Friend, J. F. The Comical part is a very good and ufeful Satyr on the Mercenary Temper of many Courtiers of preferring Money to Merit. The Story of Timoleon, is in his Life in Plutarch, and Cornelius Nepos, 4jc. Tom EJJence-, or, The Modifb Wife j a Comedy, 4*0. 1677. This Play fucceeded well, and is faid to be writ by one Mr .Rawlins, Part from Meniere's Le Cocu Imaginarie, and part from Comedies £>. C&far D'Avalos. Tom Tyler and his Wife, an Interlude, 4to. printed firft many Years ago, in an old Engli/li Black Letter, and in a fort of Bur- lefque Verfe. The Drift of the whole Play is to reprefent and humble a Shrew. If it be compar'd with Monfieur Poifons Le Sot Venge, a near refemblance will appear. A Traytor to Himfelf •, or, Mans Heart his greatefl Enemy -, a moral Interlude, in Heroick Verfe, $to. 1*578. This was afted by the Boys of a Publick School at a Breaking up, and publifh'd that it may be ufeful on the like occafion. In it are no Womens Parts. Plautus his Captives is writ like it. The True, Trojans•, or, Fuimus Troes-, being a Story of the Brit aims Valour at the Romans firft Invafion -, a Hiftory, 4to. 1633. This Play was publickly prefented by the Gentlemen Students of Mag¬ dalen-College, in Oxon. Plot from Liv. Lib. 5. Cafar Comment, Lib. 4, and 5. Galfiidus ap. Arthur Monumetenfis. De Gefiis Re- gum Britannia, Lib. 4. A Tryal ef Chivalry, 4to. Wanting the Title Page, I'm ignorant of the Date and Place of its afting. Tryal of Treafure. The Triumphs of Virtue, a Tragi-Comedy, afted at the Theatre Royal, 1697. by his Majefty's Servants. Tho'this Play fucceeded not, it feems, among a great many Faults of Language, not $r> want fome Merit and had the Style and Language been as good as the Defign, it could not have fail'd of Applaufe. The Begin - ing feems to be borrowed from Fletchers, Wit without Money ■, and great Unknown AUTHORS. W 171 great part of the Charafter of Antonio (if I'm not miftaken) is co¬ pied from thence. Tunbridge-Welisor, A Dafs Courta Comedy, 4*0. 1678. sifted at the Duke s Theatre. This is thought to be writ by Mr. Rawlins, tho the Title lays, by a Perfon of Quality. This1 does not equal Epfom-Wells. J Tyrannical Government. V THE Unfortunate Usurper, a Tragedy, 4to. 1663. dedicated to Mr. Edward Vmferville. The fame Story of Andronicm Commenw, is writ by one Wilfon, before-mentioned ; which Play I take to excel this, but in this, Aft 5. Scene 3. we have a Paral¬ lel between thofe Times, and our late Civil Wars. The Ungrateful Favourite, a Tragedy, 4to. 1664. writ by a Per¬ fon oi Honour •, but I do not find it was ever afted. See Ouicciar- dm Pont aim, and other Writers on the Affairs of Naples. w A Warning for Fair Women, a Tragedy, 4to. 1599. The Title tells you it contains the moft Tragical and Lamenta¬ ble Murther of "Mr. George Sanders, of London, Merchant, near Shooters-Hill. The Weakejl goes to the Wall •, a Comedy, 4to. 1618. afted by the Right Honourable, the Earl of Oxon, Lord Great Chamberlain ot England's Servants. Wealth and Health. Wily Beguiled, a pleafant Comedy, \to. The Chief Aftors in the Comedy area Poor Scholar, a Rich Fool,, and a Knave at a Shift. Wive, Beer, Ale and Tobacco, contending for Superiority *, incertcd in former Catalogues as an Interlude, but is no other than a Dia¬ logue, 4 to. 16 $2. Win her and Take her ■, or, Old Fools will be Medling a Come¬ dy, 4to. 1691. afted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majefties Ser¬ vants -, and is dedicated to the Right Honourable, Peregrine, Earl Of Danby, Vifcount Latimer, &c. by Mr.Underbill. The Wit of a Woman, a plea&nt merry Comedy, 4to. 1^04. The 172 Unknown AUTHORS. W The Wits led by the Nofe-, or, A Poets Revenge; a Tragi-Comedy, 4to, 16-78. afted at the Theatre Royalj great part of it is taken from Chamberlain's Love's Viftqry- Woman turrid Bully, a Comedy, 4to. 1575. afted at the Duke's Theatre. This Play met not with that Succefs ,as was ex¬ pected. A Woman will have hev Will,\ See Mnglijh Men for Money, T HE i i Hi Si' u J! tit, ^ tin Jffi '« % THE APPENDIX. GREAT Part of thefe Sheets having ^een printed a good while, lias occafion'd a NecefTity of this Supple¬ ment tocompleat the Defignof the Book, in giving the Reader an Account of all the Plays that have been hi¬ therto printedi fome whereof were accidentally omitted in their proper Places. Known Authors. Thomas Dil^e. THIS Author has lately publifh'd another Comedy, call d, The Pretenders •, or, The Town Vnmasl£d, a Comedy, afted at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Fields, by his Majefty's Servantsj and dedicated to Thomas Barnadifton, of Ketton, in Suffolk., Efq^ I have little to fay to this Play, for 'tis not fair to attack a Man that's down, tho' I do not think (confidering what Plays have pleas'd) that this ought to have met with fo fevere a Fate. Vain- throat feems a Copy of Medley, and Scandal; Sir BeUamour, a faint Shadow of the Plain Dealer, or at leaft of Blunt in The Com¬ mittee •, Captain Bomceby we have had in various Plays, as The Squire of Alfatia, Old Batchelor, Epfom Wells, &c. Since the Mif- carriage of this Play, the Author died. Thomas D'ZJrfey. • "THis Author has lately publifh'd another Play, call'd, The Campaigners} or, The Pleafant Adventures at Brujfels -y with a Familiar Preface upon a late Reformer of the Stage j ending with i74 The APPENDIX. a Satyrical Fable of the Dog and the Ottor, 1698. 4to. 'Tis dedica¬ ted to the Right Honourable, Thomas, Lord Wharton, foe. The Intreague and Difcovery betwixt Madam La Marquife, and the Colonel is borrowed from a Novel or Memoir, called, Female Faljbood. Charles Gildon* "THis Author, being known too late to be brought in the Order of the Alphabet, I have plac'd him here in the Appendix, with an Account of thofe two Plays he has already Publifh'd, and are own'd by him, tho' his Name, without his Confent, was omit¬ ted in the Imprefilons of the Plays. He is, as I'm informed, a Gentleman bom at Gill'mgbam, near Shafts bury, in the County of D orfet. His Parents and Family were all of the Romifh Perfuafion, and in the time of the Civil War» doubly incur'd the Penalties of the Prevailing Side -, both as en- gag'd in the Royal Party, and as Recufants in Religionfor which, after the Plunderings of the War, his Grandfather paid two thirds of his Efface, al! the Time of that Government. His Father was of the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn, and tho' a great Zealot for the Faith he was born in, he cou'd not convey that Zeal to his Son, our Author, whom he dying, left but Nine Years of Age, having fold the beft part of the Eflate that our Author was born to, before he died. Gillingham, the Place of his Nativity, gave our Author the 1 firft Rudiments of Learning, under a very Honeft and Learned Ma- 5 fter, one Mr. Toutig. Thence his Relations fent him to the Eng- ? lifh Colledge of Secular Priefts at Doway in ffainault, with a defign 1 of making him a PrieJ?, if his Inclination cou'd away with that • Fun&ion which was fuppos'd the beft Support of a Gentleman * whofe Fortunes and Religion could promife him no greater Advan- 1 tage. But after Five Years Study there, he found his Inclinati- 1 ons point him another way; and at the Age of about Nineteen ' he returns for England■, and as foon as One and Twenty, put it I into his Power of enjoying thofe Pleafures that Age generally I purfues, he came to London, where having fpent the Remainder of ■! his Paternal Eftate, betwixt Two or Three and Twenty he married, and mofl of the Reign of King James, he fpent in reading the Controverfies of that Time; being ditfatisfied with feveral of the 8 Tenentsofthe Church of Rome, that he had imbib'd with his Mo- . ther's Milk, as they fay. In him there was an Example how diffi- :ii cult a thing it is, to overcome the Prejudice of Education; for I s( am affur'd that it coft him above Seven Years Study and Conteft, before he could entirely fliake off all thofe Opinions that had grown up with him from a Child tho' he cou'd not anfwer to 0 f himfelf The APPENDIX. i7y himfelf the Conviftion of his Reafon in the Points of Religion, yet he did what is laid of Medea, by Ovid : Video meliora probq; Delefiofa feqmr — . I have heard him fay, that the firft Book that gave him the greateft Convittion was, the Difcourfe of the late pious and in¬ genious Dr. Tillotfon, Lord Archbifhop of Canterbury, againft Tranfubftantiation, lent him by a Lawyer, that at the fame time cheated him of about Four Hundred Pounds, tho' he made way for that Peace of Mind that this Book firft opened the Door to. If I Ihou'd do with our Author, what fome other Writers of Lives have done, I might here tell you of his Inclinations to Poe¬ try from his Childhood, and talk of his Performances but he be¬ ing my Friend, I (hall forbear all things that may argue me guil¬ ty of Partiality; and fhall only fay, as he tells us in a Letter of his Ejjays, that Neceflity was the firft Motive of his venturing to be an Author. His firft attempt in the Drammatick way, was not till he was was paft Thirty Two Years of Age; and then in about a Month's time, he gave us a Tragedy, calTd, The Roman Bride's Re¬ venge , but of that in its Order : for we muft firft lpeak of a Play of the late famous Mrs. Behrfs, which he introduc'd by the Impor¬ tunity of a Friend of hers and his, on the Stage: It was called, The Tounger Brother $ or, the Amorous Jilt •, out of the Refpeft to her Memory, and a Deference, which was too nice, to her judg¬ ment, he durft not make any Alterations in it, but what were abfolutely neceftary, and thofe only in the firft and fecond Aft, which reflected on the Whigs, when if he had alter'd the jejune Stile of the three laft Afts, betwixt Prince Frederick and Mirtillay which was too heavy, in all Probability it would have been more to the Advantage of his Purfe. But now I fhall proceed to his own Plays, which are two in Number $ the firft in our Alphabeti¬ cal Order, is, Phaeton-j or, The Fatal Divorce, a Tragedy, afted at the Thea¬ tre Royal, written in Imitation of the Ancients, &c. 1698. 4to. and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Charles Montague, E% &c. the moft Noble and Generous Patron of the Mufes that our Nation has Produc'd. Tho' it was a very bold Undertaking of a Young Author, to attempt to bring fo very different a way of Writing on fo corrupt a Stage as ours-, yet the Succefs juftified his Opinion, that the Irregular, Prophane, and Obfcene Plays rook only becaufe our Audience faw no other, through the Poets Fault. The Plot, and a great many of the Beauties of the Play, the Au¬ thor fairly owns that he has taken from the Medea of Euripides 17.« The APPENDIX. and in his Preface you may find his Reafons for altering the Names and Characters from what they were in the Original that he has here copied. The Roman Bride's Revenge, a Tragedy, afted at the Theatre Royal, 1^97. 4to. dedicated by the Bookfeller to William Gregory, Efq; This Play was our Author's firft ; and as it was writ in a Month, fo it had the Fate of thofe untimely Births, as hafty a Death. Tho' notwithstanding the Faults of this Play, which muft be confefs d numerous enough, there is fo much Merit in the Firft, and part of the Second Aft, and the Beauty of theCataftro- phe, that if the Voice of the Town had not been infiuenc'd by the 111 Reprefentation, it muft have met with a lefs rigorous Cen- fure. But the Author s Faults lie generally in the Stile, and the Incidents of the Third and Fourth Afts. The Stile is too near an' Imitation of Mr. Lees (the worft Qualification of that Poet, who had Beauties enough to make amends for it) I mean in many Places, for in others 'tis Juft enough. The Incidents were too numerous, and not fo diftiiift as to be well difcern d by the Audience, efpe- cially in the Fourth Aft. Tho' I think there is no Incident in this Play fo unnatural, as fome of our celebrated Plays are efleerrfd for j and then the Confiifion of the Aftion contributed to the ma¬ king them feem lefs prepar'd. The Plot I take to be of the Author's own Invention, allowing for a Hint taken from Camma. cf Galata, which is thus far improv'd, that the Husband here is alive after the Wife has drank the Poifon, which heightens the Diftrefs of the Chief Characters. Eut the Moral is one of the moft noble of any of our Modern Plays, it being to give us an Example in the Puniflunent of Martian, that no Confideration in the World, ought to make us delay the Service of our Country. J Peter Motteux. Since the Printing of the foregoing Sheets, this Author has pub- Iifh'd another Play, call'd, Beauty in Diftrefs, a Tragedy, as it is afted at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by his Majefty's Servants, 4I0. 1698. de¬ dicated to Henry Heveningham, Efq-, I cannot perceive that the Author has ftole any part of his Defign, nor am apt to believe he has, fince he has generally been very free in owning to whom he has owed any Part of what he has publifh'd. There are a great many very fine Lines in this Play , yet Comedy feems much- more the Bent of our Author's Genius than Tragedy; tho' it muft be confefs'd, that in the Multiplicity of his Incidents he has follow'd only the Example of our native Poets, which may well excufe him. Before this Play we have a Difcourfe of the Lapfidncfs The APPENDIX. M Lawfulness and Vnlawfulnefs of Plays; lately written (as the Ti¬ tle fays) in French, by the Learned Father Caffara, Divinity Pro- feflor at Paris. Sent in a Letter to the Author by a Divine of the Church of England. Europe's Revels for the Peace, and hii Majeji/s happy Return, a Mufical Interlude* 4ft). 1697. perform'dat the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by his Majefty's Servants, at the King's Return after the Conclufion of the Peace • with a Panegyrical Poem, fpo- ken there, on the fame Occafion. The Mafick let by Mr. Eccles, Dedicated to Sir Theodore Janffen. Mary, Countefsof Pembroke* THis Lady (accidentally.omitted by the Printer) was that Sifter to Sir Philip Sidney, to whom lie dedicates his fam'd Arcadia> (he was the only Woman, almoft, that had the Generofity to be a true Patronefs to Poetry j for fuch fhe was to Mr. Samuel Daniel^ tvho had been her Tutor, we have had many Pretenders to the Mafes of tjhat Sex, but I do not remember that I have read of any one, that having Power, did ever exert it in the Encouragement and Patronage of any particular Poet, or Poetry in general. Tfe true indeed, the Catalogue of Men that have done it, is far from being numerous, tho' this may be faid of them, which cannot of our little Politicians, That they have been the gre'atefc Men of their Age, and perhaps of any Age. She publilh'd one Play, ivhich Mr. Langbain could never procure a Sight of j it is entitu- led. AntoniW) or, The Tragedy of Anthony-y 2vo. 169$; This is a Tfanflatiofl out of French -, tho' it was very well for a Lady of thofe times, but in nothing fo defirable, as Mr. Langbain feems to make it, only becaufe the Work of a Perfon of Quality •, for he has al¬ ways a furious Tender for Quality. Willi am Philips, Efq$ A Gentleman, as we find by the Epifltle Dedicatory, that had his Education in Ireland•, he has given us a Plav, call'd, The Revengeful Queen, a Tragedy, as it was afted at the Thea¬ tre Royal, by his Majefty's Servants* 1692. The Story, he tells you, is taken from the fourth or fifth Page of Mach/avel's Hiftory of Florence, and he feems fenfible, that the Charafters of Al- kino and Rofamund are not agreeable to the prefent Tafte 6f the Town-, and that Sir William D'Avenant has writ a Play on the fame ?? Matj t N . ' / ,7s I Tht APPENDIX. Mrs. Mary Fix. THis Prolifick Lady has again gratified the Town with a PIay,call'd The Deceiver Deceivd, a Comedy, as 'tis now afted by his Ma je¬ tty's Servants, at the Theatre in Little Lincohs-Inn-Fields, 4to. 1698. and dedicated to Sir Robert Marfliam, Knight and Baronet. This Play and The Impftor Cheated, are on the lame Bottom, built on a little printed Story of the fame Subjeft. I think the Scene where the Blind Man's Wife make's Love before his Face, is bet¬ ter manag'd in Mr. Powe/'s Play, than here, tho' in general, this is the better Play. Queen Catharine, or, The Ruines of Love, a Tragedy, 4 to. i6gB. atted at the Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields and dedi¬ cated to the Honourable Mrs. Cool^ of Norfolk. For the Plot con- fult Baker, Speed, Stow, in the Lives of Edward the Fourth, and Henry the Sixth. , • Mr. Rivers. AL L that I know of this Author, is but on Report; which if, that he was a Jefuit, and writ a Play, call'd, The Traytor, which he put into Mr. Shirley s Hands, and by his means it was afted. It was reviv'd in 1692. and dedicated by the I Anonymous Reviver to the Earl of Clincarty. Tho' I cannot, with ] the Reviver, fay 'tis thebeft Tragedy this Age has produc'd, be- { caufe it is far from being fo yet this I can juftly fay, That the ( Character of Sdarrah is very well drawn, and diftinguifh'd through-1 out the Play; and fo is that of Lorenzo. As for the Plot, 'tis very 1 irregular, and confifts of various Aftions •, tho' the Poet's Defign t leems to aim at a very good Moral. The ftrange Humour that hits too long reign'd in our Engiifh Poets, mifled the Author, I f fuppofe, to the Choice of fuch barbarous and bloody Murders, to[ fill up Ins Play which however frequent and toller able in Italy,1 have nothing to do here. Murther is too great a Crime to feejj voluntarily committed on our Stage-, the Law punifhes it with Ignominy, tho' the Poet has nothing to do with it, I meanby y Right. This Play has gone for Shirley's. K Tho. Shadwell, Efq^ " ON E Play of this Author's has been accidentally omitted initspi proper Place, vir, , ^ TheVertuofo, a Comedy, 4^.1679. afted at the Duke's Theatre; and dedicated to the late Duke of Nervcaftle. This Play, for the great Variety of Characters, 1iyc. has always found Succefs, and i: accounted one of the beft Plays this Author writ. ja. Shirley. 1 •T*His one Play was by Accident overfeen in its proper Place, anc * therefore inferted here: Tht 7he APPENDIX. 179 the Triumphs of Peace, a Mafque, 4to. 1633, prefented before the King and Queen at White-Hull, by the Four Honourable Houfes, or Inns of Court Gentlemen; dedicated by the Author to the Four Equal Honourable Societies of the Inns of Court. The Malquers went in a folemn Cavalcade (their Habits being extraordinary Rich) from Ely-Houfe in Holbourn, to White-Hall. "Mr. Inigo Jones contrived the Scenes and Ornaments: and Mr. Lawts and Mr. Joes compos'd the Mufick. Mrs. Catharine Trother. HTHis Lady, by her Parents, is of Scotch Extraction, tho' born and bred in England j admirable for two things rarely found together, Wit and Beauty; and with thefe a Penetration very un¬ common in the Sex. She difcovers in her Converfation, a Finenefs and Nicety of Keafonirg on the higheft Metaphyseal Subjetts, nor is Hie lefs entertaining on the more Gay and Converfible. She has already given us two Plays, which challenge our Admiration, we like the fir ft, but are tranfperted with the Iaft there is the Chaftity of her Perfon, and the Tendernefs of her Mind in both; the Paflions are natural and moving, the frile jufl and fami¬ liar, and adapted to the Subjeft if there be net the Sublime, 'tis becaufe there was no room for it, not becaufe (he had not Fire and Genius enough to write it. What I fay will be fecur'd from the Imputation of Flattery, by what fhe has writ} and 'tis the Brevity I have propos'd my felf in this Undertaking, that confines me to this little, and obliges me to proceed to her Plays. Agnes de Caftro, a Tragedy, 4to. 1696. afted at the Theatre Royal, and dedicated to the Right.Honourable, Charles, Earl of Vorfet and Middlesex, <&c. This Play met with good Suc:efs. 3Tis built on a Novel of the fame Title, written Originally in French, by a French Lady, and tranflated into English by Mrs. Bekn. Fatal Friend/hip, a Tragedy, as it is afted at the new Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, 1698. and dedicated to her Royal High- nefs the Princefs of Denmark: I need fay nothing of this Play, the Town has prevented my Approbation; and I can only add, that I think it deferv'd the Applaufe it met with, which every Play that has the Advantage of being Clapt, cannot get from the feverer and abler Judges. William Walker, A Young Gentleman of about Nineteen Years of Age, he was born &(if I'm not mis-inform'd) in the Ifle of Barbadoes> and N 2 of , 8o The A p p etn rrrx. — of a good Family, his Education was moft in England-, he has publiftfd one Play, call'd, ViZtorioM Love, a Tragedy, as it is afted at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 1698. 4to. and dedicated to the Honourable James Kendal, Eiq; one of the Lords of the Admiralty. He tells us in the Preface, that he afted a part himfelf in his Play, which I fup- pofe was no Difadvantage to it: for it was, as we learn from the fame Preface, well received by the Town. The Play feems to be a kind of Imitation of Oroonok9, only here inftead of one, they are all Negro's. But, if they think the Devil white, methinks fhe fliou'd fcarce be fo very Amiable in their Eyes; but under this Cenfure Imoinda wou'd equally fall 5 and 'tis very excufable in fo young a Beginner as Mr. Walker. I only fay it, for fear the Pub- lick fliould go on, and we fee nothing but Black Heroes for the Fu¬ ture, fince the Colour fpreads fo faft on the Stage. The Greek Poets feldom went out of Greece for their Heroes but ours on the contrary, find Heroes every where but in their ovvYi Country; this is no Argument of their Judgment or Vertue-, for if Example be that they wou'd inftruft by, the nearer the Example is related to us, the more force it will naturally have upon us. Fulk^ Grevile, Lord Brook.. TPHis Right Honourable Author was Son to Sir Fulk.Grevile the Elder of jBeaucbamp^Court in Warwick/hire he left Cambridge in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth was made a Baron in the Seven¬ teenth Year of King James the Firft; and was famous for Valour and Learning: among other Poems he gave us two Plays: He lies buried in Warwicl^church under a Black and White Marble, on which he's ftil'd Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counfellor to King James, and Friend to Sir Philip Sidney. See more of him in fullers Hifiory. Alaham, a Tragedy, fol. 1633. This Play is built on the Mo¬ del of the Ancients ^ the Prologue is fpoken by a Ghoft, and the Speftre gives an Account of each Character. The Scene of the Drama lies at the Entrance of the Perfian Gulph, of which Place you may read in Mr. Herbert's Travels, fol. the Third Edition, p. 114. Muffopha, a Tragedy, 4to. 1609. fol. 1^33. This Play feems alfo an Imitation of the Ancients, and for the Plot confult Paulm Jovius, and other Tur^ifh Chronicles. Thefe Two Plays are printed together with other Poems of his Lordfhips, in fol. 1533. The Life of Sir Philip Sidney before his Arcadia, is laid to be written by this our Author; as alfo another Volume of Poems and Remains, 8vo» not printed tiU.the Year UNKNOWN The appendix. 1s1 Unknown Authors. AMP HIT KT ON, Epidicmx and Rudens, made Englifh from Plautiu, with Critical Remarks upon each Play. This Tranflation is fuppofed to be done by a Divine of the Church of England; bnt finee he has not thought fit to put his Name to it, I fliall not prefume to do it. 'Tis dedi¬ cated to Sir Charles Sidley, Baronet. The Fatal Difcovery; or, Love in Ruines, a Tragedy, as it is afted by his Majefty's Servants, at the Theatre Royal, 1698. The Au¬ thor of this Play is unknown, 'tis ufher'd into the World by a Pre¬ face under Mr. Powers Name, in Anfwer to a Copy of Verfes writ by Mr. Dry den, in which there was fome Reflections on that The¬ atre. The Story is originally a Cafe of Confcience put by St. An- ftin •, and after that mentioned in fome of our Englifh Divines, It feems to be taken from the hint of the old Story of Oedipus; but 'tis more improbable, andfcarce poffible to happen, and there¬ fore of no Ufe, as incapable of affording any Moral. The Pindar of Wakefield, a Comedy, 4to. 1633. This Play was through mi flake, omitted in tranfcribing the Copy for the Prefs. Terence, this Latin Poet is tranflated by the Tranflator of the former, in Conjunftion with two other Divines of Cambridge. I'm fenfible the Tranflators underftood the Original very well, but their altering the Terminations of the Proper Names, would make fome think that they had taken it only from the French of Madam D acier. The Unnatural Mother ■, the Scene in the Kingdom of Siam, as it is now afted at the new Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by his Majefty's Servants written by a young Lady, 4to. 1698. This Play is an Argument of the Strange Chance of Plays, when fo in- digefted a. heap could be tollerably received; and I think 'tis a great Argument againft thofe judges who receive and permit the Plays to be afted : For I am unwilling that the Nikednefs of our Country fhould be difcover'd; that is, that an Audience ccnfd bear fuch as this, and fome other of a Modern Date, The Wri¬ ters now (I mean all that attempt Writing) think if they can maka a horrid Charafter or tvvo in a Play, and fome bloody and barba- fous Incidentss they can prefently write a Tragedy, never reflefting 182 The APPEN pi X. that a Poet is not to be a Hangman, he is not to rival Jac\Ketch in his Office, and rob the publick Executioners of their Bufinefs, by ending a Criminal privately, who ought to have a Publick and moft infamous Execution. Where the Laws condemn a Villain to the Gibbet, the Poet has nothing to do, fuch Characters are be¬ low the Stage, and ought to appear no where but on the Cart, and in the Ordinary's Paper.' The Poets Court of Juftice is more lublime, he examines and punifhes Crimes that the Political Courts overlook. He is not to make Characters more deprav'd than Ex¬ perience ever fhew'd us $ for I'm confident Callapeia never had her Fellow, on this fide the Line at Ieaft, and for the Vices of thofe of the other, I know nothing that we have to do with them, (ha¬ ving Stock enough of our own) and 'tis with abundance of Rea- fon, call'd, The Unnatural Mather •, for fure there never was fuch an one in Nature. Bebbemeah's being put on the Couch with a Black Slave, and there found afleep, is borrowed from Mr. Settle's Incident of Cleonyra, and Oirantesy in the Princefe of Perfia. F 1 N A N INDEX O F PLAY Referring to the AUTHORS. A ABttelazar Pag. 8 Abdicated Prince i $6 Abraham's Sacrifice ibid. Acolaftus Afteon az^fi Diana Adelphi Adrafta Adventures of Five Hours Agamemnon Aglaura Agrippa K. of AllSa Agrippina Emprefs of Rome $6 no 28 II 8i 141 138 ibid. 31 Alarum for London Albion Albion's Triumph Albion and Albianius Albion K.of the Lombards Albertus Wallenftine ibid. 156 ibid. 41 33 6 4 Albovine Albumazar Alchimift Alcibiades Alexander and Campafpe Alexandrian Tragedy All Fools All for Love All Miftaken All for Money Alphonfus,Emperor Germany 18 Alphonfus K.of Arragon * 152 AlphonfoK. of Naples Alls loft by Luft All s well that ends well Amazon Queen Ambitious Statefman Ambitious Slave Amboyna • N 4 33 1 $6 77 107 87 4 18 41 75 88 ii3 Ii3 j-26 147 1 8 122 41 Amends I tie I N 55 124 Amends for Ladies Amorous Eigote Amorous Fantafm & 8 Amorous Gallant I56 Amorous Old Woman ibid. Amorous Prince 8 Amorous War 9° Amphitryon 41 Amyntas 31,62,119,115,1115. Anatomift 115 Andrea fI>73 Andromache 28 Andromana 153 Andronicus 150 Andronicus Commenius 149 Anthony and Gleopatra 126,134 Antigone 96 Antonia and Melida 93 Antipodes 13 Antiquary 93 Any thing for a quiet Life 98 Apocraphal Ladies 105 Apollo Shroving 154 Appius and Virginia 146 Arcadia - • 132 Ardenof Feverfham 157 Argalus and Parthenia 6t\ Ariadne 152 Ariftippus I15 Arraignment of Paris 12 9,1 5 7 Arthur 141 Arviragus and Philicia As you like it ■ ■ - Affignation A fir xi Atheifl Atheifrs Tragedy Aureng-zebe ' - B Bah Bind, Ruff, and Cuff Banditti - ; > -i L'inifh'd Duke Bartholomew Fair Bafhful Lover ; P E X. Baftard Battle of Alcazar Beauties Triumph Beggars Bufh Bell in Campo Bellamira Bellamira, her Dream Belphegor Benefice Bird in a Cage Birtlf of Merlin 157 ibid. 48 57 105 m 33 149 148 131 127 11 105 •15 127 ■41 148 108 142 '4i 131 157 49 157 77 Black Prince Blazing World Blind Beggar of Alexandria 18 Blind Beggar of Bednal Green 35 Blind Lady ' 75 Bloody Banquet *152 Bloody Brother 57 Bloody Duke 157 Blurt, Mr. Conftable 98,157 Eoadicea 74 Boarding-School, fee Love for Money Bondman 94 Bonduca 28,157 Bragadocio 157 Brazen-Age 70 Brenorslt 138 Bridals 105 Bride 102 Britannia Triumphans 33 Broken Heart 61 Brothers 131 Brutus of Alba 113,139 Bury Fair 124 Butty D'Amboys's Revenge 18,49 Buffy D'Amboys's Tragedy 18 94?15i Byron's Confpiracy Byrons Tragedy ' c C^Elum Britannicum Cxfar Borgia .5 Ca?far and Pompey Csefar's Revenge Caius Marius ibid, ibid. IS 85 18 157 io8 The in Califto 2 9 Calligula ibid. ! Cambyfes, K. of Perfia 113,122 , Canterbury Guefts 116 Captain 57 Cardinal 131 Carelefs Lovers 116 Carelefs Shepherdefs 64 Carnival 1125 Cafe isalter'd 81 Cataline's Confpiracy 77 Chabbot Admiral of France 131 Challenge at Tilt 77 Challenge for Beauty 70 Chances 57 Changes 131 Changling 98 Charles VIII. of France 29 Chart Maid in Cheapfide 98 Cheats 149 Cheats of Sea pin ?o8 Chrift's Paffion 121 Chriftmas Mafque 77 Chriftian turn'd Turk 35 Chriftrnas Ordinary 152 Cicilia andClorinda 83 Cid 119 Cinthia and Endymion 49 Circe 35 Cither ea 134 City Bride 67 City Heirefs 9 City Lady 38 City Madam 94 City Match ^ 90 City Night Cap 3 5 City Politicks 29 City Wit 13 Citizen turn'd Gent, 116 Claricella 83 Cleomenes 43 Cleopatra 9 6 Cloiidia 78 Clouds *37 Coblers Prophecy 3 49 V - dex. Colas Fury 14. Combat of Caps 158 Combat of Love and Friendfliip , - 97 Comedy 01 Errors 127 Comical Ha/h 105 Committee 75 Committee Man Curried 130 Commons Conditions 158 Common Wealth of Women 49 Confliftof Confcience 149 Conqueft of China • 122 Conqueft of Granada 43 Confpiracy 82,147 Conftantine the Great 8$ Conftant Maid 132 Conftant Nymph 158 Contented Cuckold 13 Contention between York and Lancafter 158 Contention for Honour and Ri¬ ches 132 Contention for Achir.Armr. ibid. Convent of Pleafure 10 £ Coriolanus 127 Cornifh Comedy 158 Coronation $8,132 Coronation of Q. Eb'z. 153,158 Coftly Whore 158 Covent-Garden 103 Covent-Garden Weeded 13 Counterfeit Bridegroom 158 Counterfeits ibid. Country Captain 104 Country Girl 12 Country Innocence 85 Country Wake 39 Country Wife 150 Country Wit 29 Couragious Turk 6\ Court Beggar \ 3 Court Secret 132 Coxcomb 58 Crafus 4 Gromwel's Life and Death 127 Crom- The INDEX. Cromwel's Coufpiracy pag. 158 Cruel Brother 3 Cruel Debtor 159 Cuckold's Haven 139 Cunning Lovers 12 Cupid and Death 132 Cupid's Revenge 58 Cupid's W hirligi g 159 Cure foi a Cuckold 147 Cuftom of the Country 58 Cutter of Coleman-ftreefc 27 Cymbeline's Tragedy 127 Cynthia's Revels 78 Cynthia's Revenge 137 Cyrus King of Perfia 159 Cyrus the Great 6 D DAme Dobfon 116 Damoyfelle 13 Damoyfell's A-la-mode 5 6 Damon and Pythias r$9 Darius 4,15 9 Darius, King of Perfia 29 David and Bethfhabe 110 Debauchee 159 Deorum Dona 8 Deferving Favourite 15 Deftru&ion of Jerufalem 29,159 Deftruftion of Troy 6 Devil's an Afs 78 Devil's Charter 7 Devil's Law-cafe 147 Devil of a Wife ~]6 Dick Scorner 159 Dido Q. of Carthage 92,104 Difappointment 135 Difobedient Child 77 Diftrafted State 140 DiftrefTes 33 Diftrefied Innocence 12 ?. Divine Comedian 141 Divine Mafcjue 159 Doftor Dodipole 92 Doftor Fauftus Doftor Fauflus's Life and Death, with the Humours of Harle> quin and Scaramouch 102 Don Carlos 108 Don Quixot 50 Don Sebaftian 44 Double Dealer 22 Double Marriage 58 Doubtful Heir 132 Duke and no Duke 139 Duke Guife 144 Duke of Lerma, fee Great Fa¬ vourite. Duke of Millaiu 82,95 Duke's Miftrefs 132 Dumb Knight 95 Dumb Lady 8 5 Dutch Courtezan 93 Dutch Lover 9 Dutchels Malfey 147 Dutchefs of Suffolk 70 E E Aft ward Hoe 19 Edgar 120 Edward I. 110 Edward II. 92 Edward III. 159 -with the Fall of Mortimer ib. Edward IV. 70 Elder Brother 58 Eleftra 154 Elvira 159 Emperor of the Eaft 95 Emperor of the Moon 9 Emprefs of Morocco 123,159 Enchanted Lovers 88 Endymion 87 Englifh Fryar 29 Englifh Lawyer 116 Englifh Men for Money 159 Englifh Monfieur 7$ Englifh Moor 13 Englifh Princefs 160 Englifh Rogue 141 Englifh Traveller 70 Enough's as good as aFeafl 160 Enter? The INDEX. Entertainment of the K. and I Fatal Dowry Q. at High-Gate pag. 78 Entertainment of the K. of Engl. and Denm. at Theobalds 78 Entertainment at K. James I. Coronation ibid. Entertainment of K. James I. and Q. Ann at Theobalds ibid. Entertainment of the Q. and Prince at Althrop 33 Entertainment on the Prince's Birth-day 103 Epfom Wells 124 jfcfop 143 Erminia 56 Evening's Love 45 Every Man in his Humour 78 Every Man out of his Humour ibid. Every Worn, in her Humour 1 $9 Eunuchus Example Excommun'cated Prince Extravagant Shepherd F FAttious Citizen Fair Em Fair Favourite pair Irene Fair Maid of Briftow Fair Maid of the Exchange Fair Maid of the Inn Fair Maid of the Weft Fair Quarrel Fairy Queen Faithful Shepherd Faithful Shepherdefs Falfe Favourite difgrae'd Falfe (Count Falfe one Family of Love Fancies Fancies Chart and Noble Fancies Feftivals Fatal Contraft 11 132 8 152 \6o ibid. 34 139 i<5o 70 58 70 98 160 ibid. 58 itfo 9 58 98 61 61 81 ftital Jealoufy Fatal Love Fatal Marriage Fatal Miftake Fawn Feign'd Aftrologer Feign'd Courtezans Female Academy Female Prelate Femal Vertuofo Ferrex and Porrex Fidele and Fortunatus Fine Companion Fleir Floating Ifland Flora's Vagaries Folly of Prieftcraft Fond Husband Fond Lady Fool turn d Critick Fool wou'd be a Favourite Fools Preferment Forc'd Marriage Fortunate Ifles Fortunatus Fortunate by Land and Sea Fortune Hunters Four London Prentices Pag. 9$ 160 125 >35 68 9? 160 9 10$ 123 149 107 160 93 130 137 160 160 $<=» 160 5° 15 So 78 36 70 16 70 Four Plays, or Moral Reprefenta- tions Four P's Four Plays in one Fox Free Will French Conjurer Friendfhip in Fafhion Fryar Bacon Fulgius and Lucrellc G GAlathea Game at Chels Gamefter Gam. Gurton's Needle Generous Enemies $8 69 58 81 i5i 1*2 J08 67 161 87 198 132 £$2 26 Gentle- The INDEX. Gentle-Craft pag. 161 Gentleman Dancing Mafter 15° Gentleman of Venice 132 Gentlemen of Verona 12 9 Gentleman Ufher 18 Ghoft 1^1 Glafs of Government 63 Gloriana 8 $ Goblins 138 Golden Age 7° Golden Age Reftored 78 Gorboduc 107 Grateful Servant 132 Great Duke of Florence 95 Great Favourite 75 Green's Tu Quoque 26 Greenwich Paik 102 Grim,the Collier of Croyden 153 Gripus and Hegio — 8 Guardian 27,95 Guy of Warwick 1 5 1 Guzman 11 H HAmlet Pjince of Denmark 127 Hannibal and Scipio 103 Heautontirnorumenos 11 Heftor of Germany 134 Heftors 114 Hecyra 11 Heir 97 Heir of Morocco ,,123 Hell's HigherCourt of Juftice 152 Henry II. 5 Henry III. of France 130 Henry IV. 127 Henry V.- n.iai Henry VI. ibid. Henry VI. Part r. with the Death of the D. of Gloucejler 29 Henry Vl.Part 2. or, The Miferies of Civil War 3° Henry VIII. 127 Heraclius 15 Hercules Furens 6128 Juft General 91 juft Italian 34 K. King Arthur 45 Kind Keeper ibid. King and no King $9 King Edgar and Alfreda 117,16 2 4» D E X. King Lear and his 3 Daughters* fee Lear K. of England. King and Queen's Entertainment at Richmond 1^2 King's Entertainmenat Welbeck 79 Knack to know an Honeft Man 162 Knack to know a Knave ibid. Knave in Grain 163 Knavery in all Trades ibid. Knight of the Burning Peftle 59 Knight of the Golden-Shield, fee St. Clyomon Knight of Malta 59 L LAdy Alimony 1 Lady Contemplation 10$ Lady Errant 16 Lady of Pleafure 133 Ladies Priviledge 64 Ladies Tryal 61 Lancafh. Wicchea 71,124 Landgartha 14 Late Revolution 163 Law againft Lovers 34 Law Tricks 36 Laws of Candy 59 Laws of Nature 1^3 Lear's Tragedy 128,140 Levellers levelled 163 Liberality and Prodigality ibid. Libertine 124 Like will to like, quoth the Devil to the Collier 63 Lingua 16$ Little French Lawyer 59 Locrine 128 London Chanticleers 163 London Cuckolds 117 London Prodigal 128 Longer thou liv'ft, the more Fool thou art 145 Look about you 163 Looking,- The 1 IM U Jb A. Looking-glafs for London and England pag. 6j,88 Loft Lady i&3 Loft Lover 91 Love A-la-mode 163 Love and Honour 24 Love for Love 22 Love for Money 5* Love and Revenge 123 Love and War 97 Love Crowns the End 140 Love freed from Ignorance 79 Love only for Love's Sake $5 Love in a Tub 53 Love in a Wood 150 Love in its Extafy 110 Love in the Dark 54 Love Reftored 79 Love-fick Court 13 Love-fick King 12 Love Tricks 133 Love Triumphant 45 Love's Adventures 105 Love's Cruelty ibid. Love's Cure 59 Love's Dominion 56 Love's a Jeft 101 Love's Kingdom Ibid, Love's Labour loft 128 Love's Labyrinth <52 Love's Laft Shift 20 Love's Loadftone 163 Loves of Mars and Venus ibid. Loves Triumph thro' Calipolis 79 Lovers Melancholy 61 Lovers Progrefs 59 Lovers Metamorphofis 87 Lovers Miftrefs 71 Lovers Pilgrimage 59 Lovers Riddle 28 Lovers Sacrifice 61 1 overs Triumph 26 Lovers Viftory 17 Lovers Welcome 79 Loving Enemies pag. 89 Loyal Brother 135,142 Loyal General 140 Loyal Lovers 9 r Loyal Subjeft 59 Lucius Junius Brutus 8 $ Lucky Chance 9 Luminalia 163 Lufts Dominion 92 Lufty Juventus 145 Lyer, fee Miftaken Beauty M MAckbeth 128 Mad Couple well matcht 13 Mad World my Ma ft era 99 Mad Lover 59 Madam Fickle 51 Magnetick Lady 79 Maid of Honour 95 Maid in the Mill 59 Maiden Queen, fee Secret Love. Maiden-head well loft 71 Maid's Metamorpho/is 87 Maids of Moorclack 4 Maid's Revenge 133 Maid's Tragedy 59,14*5 Male-content 93 Mall * 15 2 Mamamouchi,/ee Cit.turh'dGent. Manhood and Wifdom 164 Man of Mode 53 Man of New-market 74 Man's the Mafter 34 Marriage A-la-mode 46 Marriage Broker 154 Marriage Hater match'd $ 1 Marriage Night 5$ Marriage of Oceanus and Eritan- nia ,$7 Marriage of the Arts 72 Marriage of Wit and Scienre 164 Married Beau 30 Mariam 14 Marcelia _ 11 Marcus f The INDEX. Marcus Tullius Cicero 164. Marius and Scilla, fee Wounds of Civil War. Martyr 88 Martyred Soldier 131 Mary Magdalen's Repentance 14 $ Mary, <}. of Scotland \ fee Ifland Queens. Mafque at Berthie 21 Mafque at the Lord Haddington's Houfe 79 Mafque at Lord Hayes Houfe 79 Mafque at Ludlow Caftle 100 Mafque of Augurs 79 Mafque of Flowers 164 Mafque of Grays-Inn 59 Mafque of Owls 79 Mafque of Queens ibid. Mafque of the Middle Temple and Lincolns-Inn Gent. 19 Mafquerade du Ciel 153 MafTacree at Paris 86,p 2 Maffacree of Paris MaiTianello 164 Mafter Anthony 11 Mafter Turbulent 164 Match at Midnight 118 Match me in London 36 Match in Newgate, fee Revenge. Matrimonial Trouble 105 May Day 19 Mayor of Quinborough 99 Meafure for Meafure 128 Medea Menechmus i 5 5 Merchant of Venice 128 Mercurius Britannicus 164 Mercury vindicated Merry Devil of Edmonton 164 Merry Milk-maids Merry Wives of Windfor Melfalina 11 ^ Metamorphofed Gypfies 79 Michaelmas Term 99 Microcofmus 1o3 Midas pag. 87 Midfummer Night's Dream 128 Mirza 8 Mifer ^ 125. Miferies of Civil War, fee Henry VI. Part 2. Miferies of inforc'd Marriage 147 Miftaken Beauty 164 MiftakeSj or, Falfe Reports 67 Miftaken Husband 4$ Mithridates 66 Mock Duel]ift * i$i Mock Marriage 121 Mock Tempeft 48 Mock Thyeftes 149 Monfieur D'OIive 19 Monfieur Thomas 59 Money is an Afs 81 More Di.femblers befides Wo¬ men Morning Ramble Mortimer's Fall Mother Bomby Mother Shipton's Life Death Mourning Eride Mucedorus Much ado about nothing 99 i(<4 19 87 and 141 22 164 128 *34 94 164 n* if Mulberry Garden Mulealfes the Turk Mufeof New-market Mules Looking-glafs Muftapha N NAture's 3 Daughters ■ 10$ Neglefted Vertue 16$ Neptune's Triumph Nero's Life and Death 85,16 5 NewCuftom 165 New Exchange 13 New Inn 3i New Trick to cheat tl?e Devil New-maskst Fair 165 • Mew Way to pay old Debts 95 News The INDEX. News from Plymouth pag. 34 News from the World in the Moon 80 Nice Valour 5 9 Nice Wanton 16$ Nicomede 31 Night Walker 59 Noah's Flood 53 Noble Gentleman ibid. Noble Ingratitude 88 Noble Spanifli Souldier 119 Noble Stranger 129 No Body and Some Body 16$ Novelty xox No Wit, no Help like a Wo¬ man's 99 Northern Lafs 13 Northward-hoe 3 6 Novella i 3 O OBeron the Fairy Prince 80 Obftinate Lady 21 Oftavia 107 Oedipus 45,104 Old Batchelour 2 5 Old Cafile's Hiftory 128 Old Couple 97 Old Law P5j99 Old Man's LefToti 12 Old Troop 85 Old Wives Tale 16$ Opportunity 133 Ordinary 17 Oreftes 64 Orgula 154 Orlando Furiofo 16$ Ormafdes 83 Oroonoko 155 Orphan 108 Ofmund the great Turk 15 Othello 128 Ovid 21 P PAlIantus and Eudora 82 Pandora 81 Pan's Anniverfary pag. 80 Parliament of Bees 26 Parfon's Wedding 83 Paflionate Lover 15 Paftor Fido 55 Pathomachia 166 Patient Grille ibid. Patrick for Ireland 133 Paufanias ibid. Pedlar's Prophecy 166 Peleus and Thetis 7$ Pericles Prince of Tyre 128 Perjured Nun 12 Perkin Warbeck 61 Philafter 6b Phi His of Scyros 153 Philotas 32 Philotus Scotch 166 Phoenix 99 Phoenix in her Flames 88 Phormio 11 Pifture 95 Pilgrim 60,83 Pinder of Wakefield. Pifo's Confpiracy 166 Pity fhe's a Whore 61 Platonick Lovers 34 Play-houfe to be Lett ibid. Play between John the Husband, and Tib his Wife 69 Play betwixt the Pardoner and the Fryar, the Curate and Neighbour Prat ibid. Play of Gentlenefs and Nobility ibid. Play of Love ibid. & Play of the Weather ibid. Plain Dealer 150 Plealure at Kenelworth Caflle 63 Pleafure reconciled to Virtue 80 Plot and no Plot 38 Plutus *151 Poetafter 80 Politician, 133 Politician Th e I N Politician Cheated 66 Pompey i i x Pompey his Fair Cornelias. 84 Poor Man's Comfort 3 5 Poor Scholar 104 Pragmatical Jefuite 16 Presbyterian Lafh 166 . Prefence 105 Prince of Prigg's Revels 153 Princefs 83 Princefs of Cleve 86 Prifoners 83 Projectors 149 Promifes of God manifefted \66 Promus and CalTandra ibid. Prophetefs 60 Provok'd Wife 144 Pfyche 125 Pfyche Debauched 14 Publick Wooing 106 Puritan Widow 128 Qr *= Ueen 166 Queen and Concubine 13 Queen of Arragon 6-j Queen of Corinth 60 Queen s Arcadia 3 2 Queen's Exchange 13 Queen's Mafque of Beauty 80 Queen's Mafque of Blacknefs ib. Querer per Solo querer, fee To Love only for Love's Sake R. R Aging Turk 6 5 Ram Alley 8 Rambling Juftice 8 5 Rampant Alderman 167 Rape ihd. Rape of Lucrece 71 Rebellion 117 Reformation 167 Rehearfai ibid. Religious Religious Rebel 167 Renegado 9 5 Return frorr. Parnaffas 167 D EX. Revenge p 33.167 Regulus 20 Revenge for Honour 19 Revengers Tragedy, fee Loyal Brother Reward of Vertue 62 Rhodonand Iris 84 Richard the Second 128,140 Richard the Third 128 Richmond Heirefs $2 Rival Friends <58 Rival Kings 7 Rival Ladies 46 Rival Queens 86 Rival Sifters 6 5 Rivals 167 Roaring Girl 99 Robert, Earl of Huntingdon's Downfal and Death 71 Robin Confcience ibid. Robin Hood's PaftoralMay-games id7 Robin Hood and his Crew of Sol¬ diers ibid. Roman Actor 96 Roman Emprefs 8 2 Roman Generals 39 Romeo and Juliet 129 Rome's Follies 151 Romulus and Herfilia 167 Roundheads 9 Rover ibd. Royal Cuckold ibid. Royalift 52 Royal King and Loyal Subjeft 71 Royal Mafque at Hampton-Court 1 168 Royal Mafter 133 Royal Mifchief 91 Royal Shepherdefs 125 Royal Slave 17 Royal Voy; ge 168 Rule a W fe, and have a Wife 60 Rump 140 O S Sacrifice The INDEX. 54 i?8 80 151 168 100 87 156 117 fee 60 140 168 124 60 S. SAcrifice pag Sad One Sad Shepheard Saint Cicely Salmacida Spolia Sampfon Agoniftes Sapho and Phaon Satyromaftix Scaramouch, <&c. School of Complements, Love Tricks Scornful Lady ♦Scots Figaries Scottifh Politick Presbyter Scovvrers Sea Voyage Seven Champions of Chriften- dom 84 See mee, and fee me not 10 Sejanus's Fall 80 Selimus Emperor of the Turks 65 Selindra 83 Sertorius 5 Several Wits 10 6 Sforza, Duke of Millahl 6$ Sham Lawyer 40 She Gallants 66 She Ventures and he Wins ibid. Shepheards Holyday 119 Shepheards Paradice 101 Shoomaker's a Gentleman 118 Shoomakers Holiday ibid. Sicelides ' 168 Sicily and Naples *152 Siege 17,33 Siege of Babylon 112 Siege of Conftantinople 168 Siege of Memphis $2 Siege of Rhodes 34 Siege of Urbin 83 Silent Woman 80 Silver Age 70 Sir Anthony Love 136 Sir Barnaby Whig 52 Sir Clyomon, Knight of the Golden Shield 169 Sir Courtly Nice 30 Sir Giles Goofe-Cap 169 Sir Hercules Buffoon 85 Sir Martin Mar-all 46 Sir Patient Fancy 9 Sjr Solomon 169 Sifters 133 Six Days Adventure 74 Slighted Maid 137 Sociable Companions 106 Sodom $6 Soliman and Perfeda 169 Sophifter 37 Sophompaneos 6 5 Sophonisba 8 <5,94 Sophy 37 Soldiers Fortune 108 Spanifh Bawd 169 Spanifh Curate 60 Spani/h Fryar 46 Spanifh Gypfies 99,118 Spanifh R®gue 48 Spanifh Wives 112 Sparagus Garden 13 Speeches at Prince Henry's Bar¬ riers 80 Spightful Sifter $ Sport upon Sport 169 Springs Glory 103 Squire of Alfatra 124 Squire old Sap. 183 Staple of News 80 State of Innocence 46 Step-mother ibid. Strange Difcovery 169 Subjects Joy ibid. Succefsful Strangers 102 Sullen Lovers 124 Summers's Laft Will and Tefta- ment 104 Sun's Darling 62. Suppofes 63 $urprifal 75 Sufanna's Tears 169 Swaggering The I N Swaggering Damoifelle p. lj Swetnam the Woman-hater ar- raign'd 169 r. TAIe of a Tub 80 Tamberlain the Great 92, 121 Taming of the Shrew 129 Tancred and Gifmond 148 Tartu f 97 Tarugo's Wiles 120 Tempe reflor'd 170 Tempeft 47,129 Temple 19 Temple of Love 34 Terrence's Comedies 73 The longer thou liv'ft, the more Fool thou art 146 Thebais 106 Theodofius 86 Therfvtes 21,170 Thomafo 8 3 Thornby Abby 155 Thracian Wonder 147 Three Ladies of London 15$ Thyerry and Theodoret 60 Thyeftes 29,69,149 Tiberius (Claudius, Nero) 170 Time vindicated to himfelf and to his Honours 80 Timolion 170 Timon of Athens 125,129 'Tis pity file's a Whore 6 r Titus Andronicus H7>l29 Titus and Berenice 108 Tom Eflence 17° Tom Tyler and his Wife ibid Tottenham Court 105 Town Fop 10 Town Shifts 117 Trapolin fuppofed a Prince 2 r Travels of Three Englifh Bro¬ thers 36 t) E X. Tr^ytor Traytor to himfelf Treacherous Brother Trick for Trick pag. 133 170 113 $2 Trick to catch the Old One 99 Triumph ot Beauty 135 Triumph of Love and Antiquity ' 99 Triumph of Peace 179 Triumph of the Prince D'Amour 34 Triumphs of Vcrtue 170 Triumphant Widow 105 Troades 130,152 Troas 69,153 Troylus and Creflida 47>'29 True Trojans 170 True Widow 12$ Tryal of Chivalry 170 Tryal of Treafure ibid, Tryphon 11 Tunbrid ge Wells 171 Twelfth Night 129 Twins 118 Two angry Women of Abingtoa 112 Two Noble Kinfmen 60 Two Tragedies in One 150 Two Wife Men, and all the reft Fools 19 Tide Tarrieth for no Man 146 T yrannical Government 171 TyranickLove 47 VAlentinian Valiant Scot Valiant Welchman Varieties Venice preferv'd Very Good Wife tferv Woman Veftal Virgin Vilain O 2 60 154 151 10$ 108 115 9* 7$ 112 Vir- / The INDEX. Virgin Martyr Virgin Widow Viftuofo Vertuous Ottavia Vertuous Wife Vertue betrayed Vifion of Delight pag. 96 114 178 12 52 7 Si Vifion of the Twelve Goddefles 32 Unfortunate Lovers 103 Unfortunate Mother 582 Unfortunate Shepheard 142 Unfortunate Ufurper 171 Ungrateful Favourite ibid. Unhappy Fair Irene 139 Unhappy Favourite 7 Unhappy Kindnefs 122 Unnatural Brother <,6 Unnatural Combat 9<5 Unnatural Tragedy 106 UntrufTing the Humorous Poet, fee Satyromaftix. Volunteers 125 Vow-breaker 120 Ufurper 74 Vulpone, fee Fox W WAlks of IHington and Hogf- den 81 Wandring Lover 98 Warning for fair Women 171 Wary Widow 72 Weakefi: goes to the Wall 171 Wealth and Health ibid. Wedding 134 Weft ward-hoe 37 What you will 94 When you fee me you know me 119 'White Devil 147, Whore of Babylon Wiat's Hiiiory' km. Widow Widow Ranter 10 Widow's Tears 19 Wife for a Month 60 Wild Gallant 47 Wild Goofe-chafe 60 Wily beguil'd 171 Win her and take her 171 Wine, Beer, Ale, and Tobacco 171 Winters Tale 129 Wife Women of Hogfden 72 Witch of Edmonton 37,118 Wit at feveral Weapons 60 XVit of a Woman 171 Wit in a Conftable 6\ Wit without Money 60 Wits 34 Wits Cabal io6 Wits led by the Nofe 172 Witty Combat 1 S2 Witty Fair one 134 Wives Excufe 1*36 Woman Captain 126 Woman Hater 61 Woman Hater Arraign'd, fee Swetnam Woman in the Moon 87 Woman kiird with Hindnels 72 Woman turned Bully 172 Woman's a Weathercock 55 Woman's Conqueft 74 Woman's Prize 61 Woman will have her Will 172 Woman's Wit 20 Women beware Women 100 Woman pleas'd 61 Wonder of a Krgdom ibid. Wonder, a Woman never vex'd 118 World toft at Tennis 100 World in the Moon 124 World s World's Idol Wrangling Lovers r. 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