nobiles Eum adjutare assiduéque unà scribere Quod illi maledictum vehemens esse existimant Eam laudē hic ducit maxumā cùm illis placet Qui vobis universis populo placent Quorum operâ in bello in otio in negotio Suo quisque tempore usus est sine superbia The Plots of these Comedies he borrow'd from the Greeks the Four first from the Comedies of Menander and the Two last from Apollodorus He was beholding to Menander likewise for some other Comedies which in his Return from Greece by Sea were lost with himself in the Year of Rome 595 and the second year of the 155 th Olympiad Some say that he Died in Arcadia but the former Account is confirm'd by Volcatius in the following Verses Sed ut Afer sex populo edidit Comoedias Iter hinc in Asiam fecit navim cum semel ' Conscendit visus nunquam est sic vita vacat Consult further Crinitus de Poetis Latinis Scaliger in Poetic Lilius Gyraldus Hist. Poet. Vossius de Poetis Latinis c. Mrs. Frances BOOTHBY The Authress of a Play called Marcelia or The Treacherous Friend a Tragi-Comedy acted at the Theatre-Royal by His Majesties Servants printed in quarto Lond. 1670. and dedicated to the Honourable and most Accomplisht Lady Yate of Harvington in Worcester-shire to whom she was related Roger BOYLE Earl of Orrery An Irish Nobleman whose Abilities in Arts and Arms have render'd him better known to this Nation than any Character I can give him so that I may justly say of him with Madam Phillips Of him I cannot which is hardest tell Or not to praise him or to praise him well However I must observe that he is not only a Poet himself but a Patron of Poets likewise as Mr. Dryden and Mr. Crown must acknowledge so that methinks his Lordship's Reputation joyn'd with the Earl of Roscomon's might be sufficient to attone for their Country's Character in point of Wit He has publisht Four Plays in Heroick Verse wherein not only the true English Courage is delineated to the Life but likewise the very Infidels and Barbarians are taught by his Pen not only Humanity but the Highest Morality and Virtue But his Wit is as far above my Abilities to describe as to imitate and therefore I shall hasten to give an Account of his Plays viz. Black Prince a Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal printed at Lond. folio 1672. Tho' this Play in the Title-page be call'd a Tragedy yet it ends successfully and therefore I presume was rather stiled so by the Author from the Quality and Grandeur of the Persons in the Dramma than from any unfortunate Catastrophe For the foundation of this Play as far as it concerns History consult Walsinghami Historia Angliae Florentii Monarch Wigorniensis Chronicon Pol Vergilii Historiae Angliae Froissard Croniques de France d'Angleterre Du Chesne Speed and other English Historians in in Reign of Edward the Third Tryphon a Tragedy acted by his Royal Highness the Duke of York's Servants and printed in folio Lond. 1672. Of this Usurper you have an account in Maccabees lib. 1. See besides Josephus lib. 13. Appian de Bellis Syriacis c. These two Plays are printed together Henry the Fifth a History acted at his Highness the Duke of York's Theatre printed in folio Lond. 1677. For the Plot see the Chronicles of England in the Reign of that King such as Walsingham Polydore Vergil Hollingshead Speed c. and the French Chronicles in the Reign of King Charles the Sixth as Les Chroniques d'Enguerrand de Monstrelet Jean Juvenal des Ursins L'Histoire de Charles VI. F. de Belleforest L'Histoire de neuf Roys Charles de France Mezeray c. Mustapha Son of Solyman the Magnificent a Tragedy acted at the Dukes Theatre printed in folio Lond. 1677. See Paulus Jovius lib. 40. Thuanus lib. 12. Tho. Artus la Continuation de l'Histoire des Turcs Knolles's Turkish History Besides these Plays there is a Comedy lately publisht tho' writ as I suppose some years ago under the Title of Mr. Anthony a Comedy acted by Their Majesties Servants and printed in quarto Lond. 1690. This Play I believe was acted formerly at the Dukes Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields because I find Mr. Angel and Mrs. Long amongst the Actors Names who if I mistake not have been dead some years The Prologue to this Play is the same with that of The Fool turn'd Critick but whether it be borrow'd or genuine I know not Besides these Plays our Author has writ a Romance called Parthenissa which yields not either in Beauty Language or Design to the Works of the famous Scudery or Calpranede however Eminent they may be amongst the French for Pieces of this Nature and what Mr. Davis of Kidwelly says of Scarron's Comical Romance may with more Justice be applied to our Illustrious Author and this Work 'T is a thousand pities That the Author prevented by death hath left the Work imperfect so that we are and ever shall beat a loss to know what period he might bring so many noble Adventures to He his written a Treatise in Folio call'd The Art of War I have been told it has been commended by many expert Captains for the best Piece extant in English but this I must leave to the judgment of others more experienced in the Art Military I know not where or when our Noble Author Died but those who would view his Character more at large must read Sr. William Davenant's Poem to his Lordship which will make them regret the Loss of so great a Man Samuel BRANDON This Author liv'd in the later part of Queen Elizabeths Reign and publisht a Play called The Tragi-Comedy of the Virtuous Octavia never acted but printed 120. Lond. 1598. and dedicated by a Copy of Verses to the Right Honourable and truly Virtuous Lady the Lady Lucia Audelay accompanied with two other Copies in commendation of the Play It is writ in alternate Verse with a Chorus at the end of each Act. For the Ground of this Play read Suetonius's Life of Augustus Plutarch's Life of M. Anthony Dion Cassius c. At the End of this Play are printed two Epistles between Octavia and her Husband M. Anthony in imitation of Ovid's Stile but writ in long Alexandrins They are dedicated to the Honourable Virtuous and Excellent Mrs. Mary Thin The Author had that good Opinion of his Play that besides his Prosopopeia al Libro at the beginning of his Book he has concluded with this Italian Sentence L'aqua non temo de l' eterno oblio Anthony BREWER A Writer in the Reign of King Charles the First to whom is ascrib'd by Mr. Kirkman two Plays viz. The Country Girl and The Love-sick King tho' I question whether the former belong to him it being ascrib'd to T. B. in the Title-page However I am sure Mr. Winstanley is much mistaken in the Account that he gives of our Author
jam Trigessimus Scriptu dignissima fecit factu dignissima scripsit Calamo pariter Gladio celebris pacis artium gnarus belli Gilbert SWINHOE Esq A Gentleman who liv'd in the Reigns of King Charles the First and Second a North-country Man by Birth being Born in Northumberland the Author of a Play call'd Unhappy fair Irene her Tragedy printed 4o. Lond. 1658. This Play is accompany'd with three Copies of Verses in its Commendation tho' I think it scarce deserve them The Play is founded on History see Knolles his Turkish History in the Life of Mahomet the First which Story is the Subject of a Novel in Bandello which is translated into French by Pierre Boisteau see Histoires Tragicques tome premier Nov. 2. The same is translated into English by Wil. Painter in his Palace of Pleasure in quarto Nov. 4o. T. Nathaniel TATE AN Author now living who tho' he be allow'd to be a Man of Wit and Parts yet for Dramatick Poetry he is not above the common Rank What he has extant for the most part is borrow'd at least we may say That generally he follows other Mens Models and builds upon their Foundations for of Eight Plays that are printed under his Name Six of them owe their Original to other Pens as we shall shew in the following Account Brutus of Alba or The enchanted Lovers a Tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre printed 4o. Lond. 1678. and dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Dorset and Middlesex This Play is founded on Virgil's AEneids Book the 4 th and was finished under the Names of Dido and AEneas but by the Advice of some Friends was transformed to the Dress it now wears Cuckold's Haven or An Alderman no Conjurer a Farce acted at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset Garden printed 4o. Lond. 1685. and dedicated to Colonel Edmund Ashton This Play is borrow'd from Johnson's Eastward-hoe and Devil is an Ass. Duke and no Duke a Farce acted by their Majesties Servants with the several Songs set to Musick with Thorough-Basses for the Theorbo or Bass-Viol printed 4o. Lond. 1685. and dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir George Hewyt This Play is founded on Sir Aston Cockain's Trappolin suppos'd a Prince Ingratitude of a Common-wealth or The Fall of Caius Martius Coriolanus acted at the Theatre-Royal printed 4o. Lond. 1682. and dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Herbert Marquess of Worcester This Play is borrowed from Shakespear's Coriolanus Island Princess a Tragi-comedy acted at the Theatre-Royal revived with Alterations printed 4o. Lond. 1687. and dedicated to the Right Honourable Henry Lord Walgrave This Play is Fletcher's Originally Loyal General a Tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre printed 4o. Lond. 1680. and dedicated to Edward Taylor Esquire Lear King of England his History acted at the Dukes Theatre revived with Alterations printed 4o. Lond. 1687. and dedicated to Thomas Boteler Esq This Play in the Original was writ by W. Shakespear Richard the Third a History acted at the Theatre-Royal under the Name of The Sicilian Usurper with a Prefatory Epistle in Vindication of the Author occasioned by the Prohibition of this Play on the Stage printed 4o. Lond. 1681. and dedicated to George Raynford Esq This Play owns its Birth likewise to Shakespear Besides these Plays our Author has two Volumes of Poems in print One wholy writ by him call'd Poems writ on several Occasions second Edit enlarg'd printed 8o. Lond. 1684. The other call'd Poems by several Hands and on several Occasions collected by our Author and printed octavo Lond. 1685. John TATEHAM An Author that flourish'd in the Reign of King Charles the First and was says Mr. Winstanley the City Poet. If he was not an Extraordinary Wit at least he was Loyal in the highest Degree as may appear by his Plays and equally hated the Rump and the Scots He has Four Plays in print Three in quarto and One printed with his Poems in octavo Distracted State a Tragedy written in the Year 1641. but not printed till 1651. 4o. and dedicated to John Sidley This Play suited well with the Times and his Hatred to the Scots appears in this Play where he introduces a Scotch Mountebank in the fourth Act to poyson Archias the Elected King at the Instigation of Cleander This I take to be the best of our Author's Writings Rump or The Mirrour of the late Times a Comedy acted many times with great applause at the Private-house in Dorset Court printed the second Edit 4o. Lond. 1661. and dedicated to Walter James of Rambden-House in Smarden in the County of Kent Esq This Play has lately been reviv'd on our Stage under the Name of The Roundheads Scots Figaries or A Knot of Knaves a Comedy printed 4 o Lond. 1652. and dedicated to Robert Dormer Esq Most of this Play is writ in the Scotch Dialect and displays them to the Life Love crowns the End a Tragi-comedy acted by the Scholars of Bingham in the County of Nottingham This Play is not divided into Acts and is much shorter than most usually are being fitted purposely as I suppose for those Youths than acted it 'T is printed with his Poems call'd The Mirrour of Fancies in octavo Lond. 1657. and dedicated to Sir John Winter Secretary of State to his Majesty in his Exile Robert TAYLOUR An Author to whose Person and Writings I am wholy a Stranger only I find in former Catalogues a Comedy ascribed to him call'd Hog-huth lost his Pearl Thomas THOMSON Another Author of the meanest Rank and a great Plagiary if One of the Plays be own'd by him which Mr. Kirkman has ascribed to him viz. English Rogue a Comedy acted before several Persons of Honour with great applause printed 4o. Lond. 1668. and dedicated to Mrs. Alice Barret Mother Shipton her Life acted Nine Days together with great applause printed 4o. Lond. 16 I suppose the Occasion of the Success of this Play was from what he stole for all the Characters except what relate to Shipton are borrow'd as the Characters of Shift-hose Monylack Sir Oliver Whore-hound David c. are stollen verbatim from Massinger's City Madam and Middleton's Chast Maid in Cheapside This Play has not the Author's Name to it but the two first Letters it may be he was asham'd to set his Name to other Mens Labours As to the Story of Shipton I know not how to direct the Reader except to an old Book in quarto call'd The Life and Death of Mother Shipton Nicholas TROTT An Author who writ a Tragedy call'd Arthur which I never saw neither can I give any Account of the Author himself or the time he liv'd in Richard TUKE An Author of whom I can give no further Account than that he writ a Play call'd Divine Comedian or The Right Use of Plays improved in a Sacred Tragi-comedy printed 4o. Lond. 1672. and dedicated to the Right Honourable and no less Virtuous Mary Countess of Warwick This Play was call'd first by the Author The
Beckington near Phillips-Norton in Somerset-shire where he Died in October 1619. being about Four-score years of Age and was Buried in the same Parish-Church where a Monument was erected at the sole Bounty of the Lady Ann Clifford Heiress of George Earl of Cumberland and afterwards Countess of Pembroke Dorset and Montgomery whose Tutor he was Having given this Account of his Life I am now to speak somewhat of his Writings and it being at present my Subject I shall speak first of his Dramatick Pieces which consist of Two Pastorals Two Tragedies and a Masque viz. Cleopatra a Tragedy printed in quarto Lond. 1623. and dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke by a Copy of Verses written in Stanzas of Eight Lines which the Italians from whence we took the Measure call Ottava Rima This Play was first printed in octavo Lond. 1611. but this later Copy infinitly differs from the former and far exceeds it the Language being not only corrected but it having another advantage in the Opinion of a Modern Poet since that which is only dully recited in the first Edition is in the last represented for the Foundation of the Story consult Plutarch in the Lives of Pompey and Anthony Florus lib. 4. c. 11. Appian de Bellis Civilibus Lib. 5. and a new Book translated out of French by Mr. Otway in octavo Lond. 1686. call'd The History of the Three Triumvirates where the Story is related at large Hymen's Triumph a Pastoral Tragi-Comedy Presented at the Queens Court in the Strand at her Majesties Magnificent Entertainment of the Kings most Excellent Majesty being at the Nuptials of the Lord Roxborough printed in quarto Lond. 1623. and dedicated by a Copy of Verses to the most Excellent Majesty of the Highest born Princess Ann of Denmark Queen of England c. This Play is not printed in the Octavo Edition 'T is introduc'd by a pretty contriv'd Prologue Hymen being oppos'd by Avarice Envy and Jealousy the Disturbers of quiet Marriage Philotas his Tragedy printed in quarto Lond. 1623. and dedicated to the Prince afterwards King Charles the First Both this Play and Cleopatra were much esteem'd in their time they are both written with the Chorus between each Act according to the manner of the Ancients This Play indeed found some Enemies not on the score of the Wit or Conduct of the Design but because it was reported that under the Character of Philotas that Great but Unfortunate Favourite of Queen Elizabeth Robert d'Eureux Earl of Essex was portrayed but the Author in his Apology at the End of the Play has sufficiently clear'd himself from that imputation This was the first Play that our Author writ as for the Plot it is founded on History See Q. Curtius lib. 6. c. 7. Justin lib. 12. c. 5. Plut. in Vit. Alex. Arrian c. Queens Arcadia a Pastoral Tragi-Comedy presented to her Majesty and her Ladies by the University of Oxford in Christ-Church in Aug. 1605. printed in quarto Lond. 1623. and dedicated by a Copy of Verses to the Queens most Excellent Majesty Whether the Scene between Carinus and Amintas the Lovers of Cloris be borrow'd from any ancient Poet I know not but sure I am that in Monsieur Quinault's La Comedie sans Comedie there is a Scene betwixt Filene and Daphnis in a manner the same As the Two next Scenes between these Shepherds and their Mrs. Clomire exactly resemble the Scene betwixt the Swains Damon and Alexis and the inconstant Nymph Laurinda in Randolph's Amyntas Vision of the Twelve Goddesses presented in a Masque the Eighth of January at Hampton-Court by the Queens most Excellent Majesty and her Ladies printed in 4o. Lond. 1623. and dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lady Lucy Countess of Bedford This was printed without the Authors leave by the unmannerly presumption of an indiscreet Printer without warrant and so imperfect that the Author to prevent the prejudice which both the Masque and the Invention suffer'd publisht it from his own Copy His Design under the shapes and in the Persons of Twelve Goddesses was to present the Figure of those Blessings which this Nation enjoy'd in peace under the happy Reign of King James the First by Juno was represented Power by Pallas Wisdome and Defence c. All these Pieces are printed together in 4 o Lond. 1623. under the Title of The Whole Works of Samuel Daniel Esq in Poetry by which I suppose his other Poetical Works which were printed with his Plays in octavo Lond. 1611. are inserted in this later Edition tho' that Volume I have by me want them The Names of them are An Epistle from Octavia to M. Anthony in AEgypt dedicated to the Lady Margaret Countess of Cumberland and writ in Ottava Rima Complaint of Rosomond in Stanza's of Seven Lines Musophilus and containing a general Defence of all Learning written Dialogue-wise between Musophilus and Philocosmus and dedicated to Sr. Fulk Grivel A Funeral Poem upon the Death of the late Earl of Devonshire Delia containing Fifty Seven Love Sonnets He writ besides an Heroick Poem of the Civil Wars between the two Houses of York and Lancaster in which he endeavour'd to imitate Lucan's Pharsalia and Succeeded so well in the Opinion of Mr. Speed that he is by him call'd the English Lucan These are all the Poems that our Author has publisht that ever I heard of but however his Genius was qualified for Poetry I take his History of England to be the Crown of all his Works It was first printed about the year 1613. and was dedicated to Queen Ann. It reaches from the state of Brittain under the Romans to the end of the Reign of King Edward the Third An. Dom. 1376. Of this History a late Writer has given this Character It is written with great Brevity and Politeness and his Political and Moral Reflections are very fine useful and instructive John Trussel continu'd this History with the like Brevity and Truth but not with equal Elegance till the end of the Reign of Richard III. A.D. 1484. I have never seen any Copies made on the old Poets but Mr. Daniel is therein mention'd with Honor. One Author stiles him in a Copy on the Time Poets The Pithy Daniel whose Salt Lines afford A weighty Sentence in each little Word Another Author in a Copy call'd A Censure of the Poets says thus Amongst these Samuel Daniel whom I May speak of but to censure do deny Only have heard some Wise men him rehearse To be too much Historian in Verse His Rimes were smooth his Meeters well did close But yet his Matters better fitted Prose Having given you the Sence of the Poets of those times concerning this excellent Author give me leave to transcribe an Epigram written in his Commendation by his Friend Mr. Charles Fitz-Geoffry with which I shall conclude Spenserum si quis nostrum velit esse Maronem Tu Daniele mihi Naso Brittannus
permitted to speak my Sentiments of the Play it self I believe the Author has stollen neither his Characters nor Language from any other and I presume those that have read the Character of My Lord Occus in particular Winifred and the rest in general will be of my opinion John BANCROFT A Gentleman who is the Author of a Tragedy called Sertorius acted at the Theatre-Royal by their Majesties Servants printed in quarto Lond. 1679. 'T is dedicated to Captain Richard Savage and the Epilogue was writ by Mr. Ravenscroft The Elder Corneille has writ a Play on the same subject which I have read but shall leave it to the decision of better judgments to determine which is best Those who would read the foundation of this Play may consult Plutarch's Life of Sertorius Velleius Paterculus lib. 2. Florus lib. 2. c. 22. c. John BANKS A Person now living and if I mistake not a Member of the Honourable Society of New-Inn One whose Genius to Poetry led him to make several Attempts on the Stage with different success but of whom I may say with justice that if he be not accounted a Poet of the first form yet he bears up with his Contemporaries of the second His Genius lays wholly to Tragedy and he has had the Fortune to please the fair Sex in the Earl of Essex and Anna Bullen He has five Plays in print of which in their Alphabetical Order Destruction of Troy a Tragedy acted at his Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre printed in quarto Lond. 1679. and dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lady Katherine Roos If this Play fall short of Shakspear's Troilus and Cressida at least it surpasses Heywood's Iron Age and how unkind soever the Criticks were to it I believe they have seen worse Tragedies on the Stage Various are the Authors that have toucht on this subject as Homer Virgil Ovid c. but none more fully than Dares Phrygius and Dictis Cretensis though Learned Men suppose those pieces we have under their Names to be spurious yet Natalis Comes has turned Daxes into Latin Verse and our Countryman Lydgate into old English Meetre Island Queens or The Death of Mary Queen of Scotland a Tragedy published only in defence of the Author and the Play against some mistaken Censures occasioned by its being prohibited the Stage printed in Quarto Lond. 1684. and dedicated to the Illustrious Princess Mary Dutchess of Norfolk Most Historians of those Times have written her Story as well Forreigners as our own See Buchanan Speed in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Camden Du chesne Brantome's Memoirs Causin's Holy Court Nay even Writers of Romances have thought her Story an ornament to their Work witness the Princess Cloria where part 2. her Story is succinctly related and she pourtrayed under the title of Minerva Queen of Mysta Rival Kings or The Loves of Oroondates and Statira a Tragedy in Heroick Verse acted at the Theatre-Royal printed in quarto 1677. and dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lady Katherine Herbert The Play is founded chiefly on Cassandra a famed Romance in Fol. As to what concerns Alexander I refer you to Curtius and Justin. Vertue betrayed or Anna Bullen a Tragedy acted at his Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre printed in quarto Lond. 1682. and dedicated to the Illustrious Princess Elizabeth Dutchess of Somerset The Author has followed a little Novel translated from the French and called The Novels of Elizabeth Queen of England containing the History of Queen Ann Bullen For the Story most of our Chronicles relate it See Speed's Chron. in the Reign of Hen. VIII Ld. Herbert Duchesne Dr. Burnet's Hist. Reform Book the 2. c. Unhappy Favourite or The Earl of Essex a Tragedy acted at the Theatre-Royal by their Majesties Servants printed in quarto London 1682. and dedicated to the most High and most Illustrious Princess the Lady Ann Daughter to his Royal-Highness the present Princess of Denmark This Play was acted with good success The Prologue and Epilogne were written by Mr. Dryden and the play it self founded on a Novel called The Secret History of the most Renowned Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex printed in 120. Lond. 1680. For the true Story see Cambden's Elizabeth Speed Duchesne Stow Baker c. in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth There have been two French Plays one by Monsieur Calpranede the other by the Younger Corneille which I have read and am of opinion that the English play is not short of the French notwithstanding the high commendations given it by the Mercury Gallant January 1687. Barnaby BARNES This Person lived in the Reign of K. James the First and writ a Play called The Devil's Charter a Tragedy containing the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the VI. play'd before the King's Majesty upon Candlemas Night by his Majesty's Servants printed in quarto Lond. 1607. and dedicated to the Honourable and his very dear Friends Sir W. Herbert and Sir W. Pope Knights Associates in the Noble Order of the Bath This Tragedy seems to be written in imitation of Shakspear's old Play of Pericles Prince of Tyre for as Shakspear raises Gower an old English Bard for his Interlocutor or Introductor in that Play so this Author revives Guicciardine for the same design This was the common practice of the Poets of the last Age as Shakspear Heywood c. at which time they frequently introduced dumb Shews which took much with the Spectators of those times 'T is evident the Author followed Guicciardine who has largly treated to this Pope in his History of the Wars of Italy see the first six Books Other Authors have likewise treated of him as Du Preau Hist. de l'Estat succes de l'Eglise tom 2 p. 293 seq Vollateranus tit 22. sub fine Massonius de Gestis Pontificum Romanorum c. This Author has extant besides four Books of Offices about Princes how they ought to be administred printed fol. Lond. 1606. Robert BARON Esq This Author was a young Gentleman bred first at Cambridge and afterwards brought up in the worthy Society of Grays-Inn During his abode there he writ a Romance called The Cyprian Academy printed octavo Lond. 1647. He dedicated it to the famous Traveller Mr. James Howel in particular and to the Ladies and Gentlewomen of England in general In his Romance are included two Dramaticks which Mr. Kirkman has inserted in his Catalogue tho' they are not entire Tracts of themselves nor of any signal Eminence but since they have been mention'd in former Catalogues I shall not omit them Deorum Dona a Masque presented before Flaminius and Clorinda King and Queen of Cyprus at their Regal Palace in Nicosia Part of this piece is borrow'd from Mr. Waller's Poem to the King on his Navy Gripus and Hegio or The Passionate Lovers a Pastoral acted by the Lady Julio's Servants for the Entertainment of Flaminius This Play consists but of three Acts and is borrow'd very much from Waller's Poems and Webster's
Andromache Ambitious Statesman or The Loyal Favorite a Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal by his Majesties Servants printed in quarto Lond. 1679. and dedicated to her Grace the Dutchess of Albermarle This Play is in the Poets Opinion the most vigorous of all his Labours but born in a time so unhealthy to Poetry that it met not with the Applause which some people thought it deserv'd I know not what Author Mr. Crown has follow'd or whence he hath taken his Plot but I suppose by his Ambitious Statesman he means Bernard d' Armagnac the seventh Comte d' Armagnac and Constable of France in the Reign of King Charles the Sixth My Reason for this Conjecture is that he speaks of Henry the Fifth's Landing in France which was in the time of that King Those Authors who have treated of his Reign are J. de Laboureur Hist. de Ch. VI. Enguerand de Monstrelet Chron. J. Froissard Chron. de Fr. de Angleterre Memoires de Mart. du Bellay Jean Juvenal des Ursins Hist. de Ch. VI. De Serres Mezeray c. to which I refer the Reader for better satisfaction Calisto or The Chast Nymph a Masque at Court frequently presented there by Persons of great Quality with the Prologue and the Songs between the Acts printed in quarto Lond. 1675. and dedicated to her Highness the Lady Mary Eldest Daughter of his Royal Highness the Duke This Masque was writ at the Command of her present Majesty and was rehearsed near Thirty times all the Representations being follow'd by throngs of Persons of the greatest Quality and very often grac'd with their Majesties and Royal Highnesses Presence The Play was alter'd by the Poet from what it was at first that which remains of the first design may be known by its being written in the Pindarick way that which has been alter'd being in Heroick Verse The Plot is founded on a Story in Ovid's Metamorphosis see Lib. 2. Fab. 5 6. Charles the Eighth of France or The Invasion of Naples by the French a History writ in Heroick Verse acted at his Highness the Duke of York's Theatre printed in quarto Lond. 1680. and dedicated to the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester This Play notwithstanding the Patronage of his Lordship could not escape his Railery for in his Imitation of Boyleau's third Satyr he brings in Mr. Crown as follows Kickum for Crown declar'd said in Romance He had out-done the very Wits of France Witness Pandion and his Charles the Eight Where a young Monarch careless of his Fate Tho foreign Troops and Rebels shock his State Complains another sight afflicts him more viz. The Queens Galleys rowing from the Shore Fitting their Oars and Tackling to be gone Whilst sporting Waves smil'd on the rising Sun Waves smiling on the Sun I 'm sure that 's new And 't was well thought on give the Devil his due For the Plot of this Play as far as it concerns History consult those who have written the Affairs of Charles VIII as Philip de Commines's Memoires Robertus Gaguinus Rer. Gal. Annal. Guillaume de Jaligny Hist. de Ch. VIII F. de Belleforest l'Hist de neuf Roys Charles de France André de la Vigne Guicciardine Mezeray c. City Politiques a Comedy acted by his Majesties Servants printed in quarto Lond. 1683. This Play which I have seen acted with Applause is a severe Satyr upon the Whiggish Faction but tho' the Author was accus'd for abusing an Eminent Serjeant at Law and his Wife under the Characters of Bartoline and Lucinda and a certain Doctor under the Name of Panchy yet he has sufficiently clear'd himself self in his Epistle to the Reader to which I refer you Country Wit a Comedy acted at the Duke's Theatre printed in quarto Lond. 1675. and dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Middlesex This Comedy is of that Kind which the French call Basse Comedie or Low Comedy one degree remov'd from Farce This Play notwithstanding the Faction against it pass'd the Test and was approv'd by his Majesty King Charles the Second whom the judicious part of Mankind will readily acknowledge to be a sovereign Judge of Wit Part of the design is borrow'd from a Comedy of Molliere's call'd Le Sicilien ou l'Amour Peintre and I must take the freedome to tell our English Author that part of the Language as well as the Plot is stollen from that Play Witness Rambles turning Picture-drawer to gain an Opportunity to discourse Betty Frisque which the Reader may be pleased to compare with the Intrigue between Adraste and Isidore Act. 1. Sc. 10. c. besides other places I shall leave it to those who understand French to judge whether our Author has put in practice the Rule which he has laid down in his Epistle to the Destruction of Jerusalem That all Forreign Coin must be melted down and receive a new Stamp if not addition of Mettal before it will pass currant in England and be judged Sterling Darius King of Persia a Tragedy acted by their Majesties Servants printed in quarto Lond. 1688. and dedicated to Sr. George Hewytt Baronet One of the Lieutenants of his Majesties Horse-Guard If I mistake not the Author has copyed or at least imitated Euripides his Hippolitus and Phaedra in the Characters of Memnon and Barzana For the Plot as far as it concerns Darius I have already mention'd in the Account of the Earl of Sterline pag. 4 as Qu. Curtius Justin c. Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian in Two Parts acted at the Theatre Royal printed in quarto Lond. 1677. and dedicated to her Grace the Dutchess of Portsmouth These Tragedies are written in Heroick Verse and were acted with good Applause As to the Authors Character of Phraartes I leave it to the Criticks and refer the Reader to his Epistle for satisfaction The Historical part of these Plays may be read at large in Josephus de Bello Judaico Other Authors have likewise toucht upon it as Baronius Annal. Tom. 1. A.C. 72. Eusebius l. 3. c. 6. Xiphilinus Epitome Hist. Dion in Vit. Vespasiani Suetonius Life of T. Vespas Tacitus Hist. l. 5. c. English Friar or The Town Sparks a Comedy acted by their Majesties Servants printed in quarto Lond. 1690. and dedicated to the Right Honourable William Earl of Devonshire What Success this Play met with the objections against it and the Authors defence the Preface will inform you Henry the Sixth the First Part with the Death of the Duke of Gloucester a Tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre printed in quarto Lond. 1681. and dedicated to Sr. Charles Sidley This Play is if I mistake not very much borrow'd from the Second Part of Shakespear's Henry the Sixth tho' Mr. Crown with a little too much assurance affirms that he has no Title to the Fortieth part of it This Play was oppos'd by the Popish Faction who by their Power at Court got it supprest however it was well receiv'd
eris Sin illum potius Phaebum velit esse Britannum Tum Daniele mihi tu Maro noster eris Nil Phaebo ulterius si quid foret illud haberet Spenserus Phaebus tu Daniele fores Quippe loqui Phaebus cuperet si more Britanno Haud scio quo poterat ni velit ore suo Sir William DAVENANT A Person sufficiently known to all Lovers of Poetry and One whose Works will preserve his Memory to Posterity He was Born in the City of Oxford in the Parish of St. Martins vulgarly call'd Carfax near the End of February in the year 1605. and was Christned on the Third of March following He was the Mercurial Son of a Saturnine Father Mr. John D' Avenant a Vintner by Profession who liv'd in the same House which is now known by the Sign of the Crown He was formerly of Lincoln College and instructed in Logick and Physicks by his Tutor Mr. Daniel Hough Fellow of that Society tho' his Genius rather inclin'd him to walk in the more flowry Fields of Poetry in which he made a Prodigious discovery advancing even without any Guide but his own Wit and Ingenuity as far as the Herculean Pillars if any such bounds are to be set of Poetry He was Poet Laureat to Two Kings whose Memory will always be Sacred to all good loyal and witty Men I mean King Charles the First the Martyr for and King Charles the Second the Restorer of the Protestant Religion according to the Church of England During this Honour of which his Wit and Parts render'd him Worthy he writ as I suppose his Dramatick Pieces of which I shall give some Account To speak of them in general I need only say that most of them have appear'd on the Stage with good applause and been receiv'd with like success in Print the greatest part publisht in the Authors Life time in Quarto and all since his Death collected into one Volume with his other Works printed in Folio Lond. 1673. and dedicated by his Widow to his Royal Highness the late King James Albovine King of the Lombards his Tragedy printed first in quarto and dedicated to the Right Honourable the Duke of Somerset This Play is commended by Eight Copies of Verses For the Design it is founded on History You may read the Story in several Historians See Paulus Diaconus de Gestis Langobardorum lib. 2 c. 28. Gregorius Epise Turonensis Hist. Francorum lib. 2. c. 28 Heylin's Cosinoraphy Part 1. Book 1. p. 57. This Story is likewise related at large in a Novel by Bandello which is translated by Belleforest See Histoires Tragiques Tome 4. Nov. 19. Cruel Brother a Tragedy printed first in quarto and dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lord Weston Lord High Treasurer of England Distresses a Tragi-Comedy printed in folio Lond. 1673. First-days Entertainment at Ruthland-house by Declamation and Musick after the manner of the Ancients The subject of the former of these Declamations is concerning Publick Entertainment by Moral Representations the Disputants being Diogenes the Cynick and Aristophanes the Poet. The later Dispute is between a Parisian and a Londoner who declaim concerning the Preheminence of Paris and London The Vocal and Instrumental Musick was compos'd by Dr. Charles Coleman Capt. Henry Cook Mr. Henry Laws and Mr. George Hudson Fair Favourite a Tragi-Comedy printed in Folio 1673. Just Italian a Tragi-Comedy printed first in quarto and dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Dorset and commended by the Verses of his Friends Mr. William Hopkins and Mr. Thomas Carew Law against Lovers a Tragi-Comedy made up of two Plays written by Mr. Shakespear viz Measure for Measure and Much Ado about Nothing Tho' not only the Characters but the Language of the whole Play almost be borrow'd from Shakespear yet where the Language is rough or obsolete our Author has taken care to polish it as to give instead of many one Instance Shakespear's Duke of Vienna says thus I love the People But do not like to Stage me to their Eyes Though it do well I do not relish well Their loud Applause and Aves vehement Nor do I think the Man of safe discretion That does affect it In Sr. William's Play the Duke speaks as follows I love the People But would not on the Stage salute the Croud I never relisht their Applause nor think The Prince has true discretion who affects it For the Plot I refer you to the abovemention'd Plays in the Account of Shakespear Love and Honour a Tragi-Comedy which I have several times seen acted with good applause first at the Play-house in Lincolns-Inn-Fields and since at the Theatre in Dorset-Garden This was first printed in quarto Man 's the Master a Comedy which I think I have seen acted at the Duke's House however I am sure the Design and part of the Language is borrow'd from Scarron's Jodelet ou Le Maistre valet and as I remember part from L'Heritier ridicule a Comedy of the same Authors Platonick Lovers a Tragi-Comedy which was first printed in octavo with The Wits Play-house to be Let. I know not under what Species to place this Play it consisting of several Pieces of different Kinds handsomely tackt together several of which the Author writ in the Times of Oliver and were acted separately by stealth as the History of Sr. Francis Drake exprest by Instrumental and Vocal Musick and by Art of Perpective in Scenes c. The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru. These two Pieces were first printed in quarto They make the third and fourth Acts of this Play The second Act consists of a French Farce translated from Molliere's Sganarelle ou Le Cocu Imaginaire and purposely by our Author put into a sort of Jargon common to French-men newly come over The fifth Act consists of Tragedie travestie or the Actions of Caesar Antony and Cleopatra in Verse Burlesque This Farce I have seen acted at the Theatre in Dorset-garden some years ago at the end of that excellent Tragedy of Pompey translated by the incomparable Pen of the much admired Orinda Siege of Rhodes in two Parts These Plays were likewise in the times of the Civil Wars acted with Stilo Recitativo and printed in quarto but afterwards enlarged by the Author and acted with applause at the Duke of York's Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields It is dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellor of England For the Plot as far as it is founded on History there are several Historians have writ of it in the Life of Solyman the second who took this City in the year 1522. See Thomas Artus Continuation de l'Histoire des Turcs Giov. Bosio L'Istoria della Sacra Religione Illma Militia di San Giovanni Gierosolimitano lib. 29. Boissardi Icones Vitae Sultanorum Turcicorum c. in Vit. Solym. 2. Knolles History of the Turks c. Siege a Tragi-Comedy News from Plimouth a Comedy formerly acted at the Globe with good success
and was printed as I believe in quarto Temple of Love presented by the Queens Majesty Wife to King Charles the First and her Ladies at Whitehall viz. The Lady Marquess Hamilton the Lady Mary Herbert Countess of Oxford Berkshire Carnarvan c. The Lords and others that represented the noble Persian Youths were The Duke of Lenox the Earls of Newport Desmond c. This Masque says the Author for the newness of the Invention variety of Scenes Apparitions and richness of Habits was generally approv'd to be one of the most Magnificent that hath been done in England Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour a Masque presented by his Highness at his Pallace in the Middle-Temple This Masque at the Request of that Honourable Society was devis'd and written by our Author in Three days and was presented by the Members thereof as an Entertainment to the Prince Elector A Lift of the Masquers Names as they were rank'd by their Antiquity in that noble Society is to be found at the end of the Masque to which I refer the curious Reader The Musick of the Songs and Symphonies were excellently compos'd by Mr. Henry and Mr. William Lawes his Majesties Servants Wits a Comedy heretofore acted at the Black-friars and since at the Duke's Theatre printed both in octavo and quarto before this New Edition and dedicated to the chiefly belov'd of all that Ingenious and Noble Endimion Porter of his Majesties Bed-Chamber This Play is commended by a Copy fo Verses written by Mr. Thomas Carew and has often appear'd on the Stage with Applause Having done with his Plays I am now to speak of his other Works which consist of Poems of several sorts and on several Occasions amongst which Gondibert an Epick Poem has made the greatest noise This Poem was design'd by the Author to be an Imitation of an English Dramma it being to be divided into Five Books as the other is into Five Acts The Canto's to be the Parallel of the Scenes with this difference that this is deliver'd Narratively the other Dialogue-wise The Reader may find a long account of the Author's design and his Reasons in the Preface which is directed to his Friend the so well known Mr. Hobbs who not only approves his Design but in the Close of his Letter fixes an extraordinary Complement upon him viz. The Virtues you distribute in your Poem amongst so many Noble Persons represent in the Reading the image but of One Man's Virtue to my fancy which is your own Nor was Mr. Hobbs the only Person that commended this Poem for the first and second Books were usher'd into the world by the Pens of two of our best Poets viz. Mr. Waller and Mr. Cowley which One would have thought might have prov'd a sufficient Defence and Protection against the snarling Criticks Notwithstanding which Four Eminent Wits of that Age two of which were Sr. John Denham and Mr. Donne publisht several Copies of Verses to Sr. William's discredit under this Title Certain Verses written by several of the Authors Friends to be reprinted with the second Edition of Gondibert in octavo Lond. 1653. These Verses were answer'd as Mr. Wood says by the Author himself with as much or rather more Wit and little or no concern for their Raillery rather seeming to sport at and pity their want of Sence The Title of his Answer is The Incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-Combats of Four Esquires Clinias Dametas Sancho and Jack Pudding printed in octavo Lond. 1655. The Books being scarce I shall for the Readers diversion chuse one out of each of these as a Sample of the rest and amongst the former I shall pitch upon that Copy which reflects on the Commendations given by those great Men above-mention'd The Author upon Himself I am Old Davenant with my Fustian Quill Tho' skill I have not I must be writing still On Gondibert That is not worth a Fart Waller Cowley 't is true have prais'd my Book But how untruly All they that read may look Nor can Old Hobbs Defend me from dry Bobbs Then no more I 'll dabble nor pump Fancy dry To compose a Fable Shall make Will. Crofts to cry O gentle Knight Thou writ'st to them that shite Sr. William's Answer The Author upon Himself False as Foolish What turn felo de me Davenant kill Davenant No the whole World does see My Gondibert To be a piece of Art Waller and Cowley true have prais'd my Book And deservedly Nay I did for it look He both us robbs That blames for this Old Hobbs Write on jeer'd Will and write in Pantofle That 's over Pump-ho And for Will Crofts his baffle Thou may'st long write That writ'st to them that shite Many other Railleries were broacht against him by his Enemies as those Lines in Sr. John Sucklin's Session of the Poets the Ballad entitled How Daphne pays his Debts and others which I might insert but I think 't is time to leave these trifles and acquaint my Readers who are delighted with Criticismes that they may find more serious Animad versions on this Poem in the English Preface written by that admirable Critick Mr. Rymer to his Translation of Monsieur Rapin's Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesy printed 8 o Lond. 1674. This great Man Died on the Seventh day of April 1668. Aged 63 and was Buried amongst the Poets in Westminster-Abby near to his old Antagonist and Rival for the Bays Mr. Thomas May. 'T was observ'd that at his Funeral his Coffin wanted the Ornament of his Laureats Crown which by the Law of Heraldry justly appertain'd to him but this omission is sufficiently recompenc'd by an Eternal Fame which will always accompany his Memory he having been the first Introducer of all that is splendid in our English Opera's and 't is by his means and industry that our Stage at present rivals the Italian Theatre I shall conclude his Character with that Account which Mr. Dryden has formerly given of him which is the more valuable because the commendation of his Predecessors is seldome the Subject of his Pen. In the time says he that I writ with Sr. William Davenant I had the opportunity to observe somewhat more nearly of him than I had formerly done when I had only a bare acquaintance with him I found him then of so quick a Fancy that nothing was propos'd to him on which he could not suddenly produce a Thought extreamly pleasant and surprising and those first Thoughts of his contrary to the old Latine Proverb Were not always the least happy And as his Fancy was quick so likewise were the Products of it remote and new He borrow'd not of any other and his Imaginations were such as could not enter into any other Man His Corrections were sober and judicious and he corrected his own Writings much more severely than those of another Man bestowing twice the labour and time in Polishing which he us'd in Invention Si sic omnia
to Bow was up in Arms They damn'd the Play all at one fatal Blow And broke the Glass that did their Picture show In this Play he is not exempt from borrowing some Incidents from French and Italian Novels Mrs Saintlys discovery of Love-all in the Chest Act 1. is borrow'd from the Novels of Cynthio Gyraldi see prima parte Deca 3a. Nov. 3. The same Story is in The Fortunate Deceiv'd and Unfortunate Lovers see Nov. 7. Deceiv'd Lovers Mrs. Brainsicks pricking and pinching him Act 3. Sc. 2. is copied from the Triumph of Love over Fortune a Novel writ by M. S. Bremond or else from Zelotide of M. de Païs but these are things not worthy to be urg'd against any One but Mr. Dryden whose Critical Pen spares no Man Indian Emperor or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards being the Sequel of the Indian Queen printed in quarto Lond. 1670. and dedicated to the Most Excellent and most Illustrious Princess Anne Dutchess of Monmouth and Bucclugh This Play is writ in Heroick Verse and has appear'd on the Stage with great Approbation yet it is not wholly free from Plagiarie but since they are only Hints and much improv'd I shall not mention the Particulars 'T is sufficient for me to observe in general that he has borrow'd from Plutarch Seneca Montagne Fletcher c. Mr. Dryden in the Second Edition to this Play prefixt a Piece intituled A Defence of an Essay of Dramatick Poesy being an Answer to the Preface of The Great Favourite or The Duke of Lerma but upon some considerations our Author was obliged to retract it For the Plot of this Play 't is founded chiefly on History See Lopez de Gomara Hist. General de las Incas de Conquista de Mexico De Bry Americae Pars 9. L. 7. Ogleby's America Chap. 3. Sect. 10. Mariana de Reb. Hisp. L. 26. Cap. 3. Four Letters printed in several Languages Marriage A-la-mode a Comedy acted at the Theatre-Royal by Their Majesties Servants printed in quarto Lond. 1673. and dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Rochester This Play tho' stil'd in the Title-page a Comedy is rather a Tragi-Comedy and consists of two different Actions the one Serious the other Comick both borrow'd from two Stories which the Author has tackt together The Serious Part is founded on the Story of Sesostris and Timareta in the Grand Cyrus Part 9. Book 3. and the Characters of Palamede and Rhodophil from the same Romance Par. 6 B k 1. See the History of Timantes and Parthenia I might mention also the Story of Nogaret in The Annals of Love from whence part of the Character of Doralice was possibly borrow'd and Les Contes D Ouville partie premiere p. 13. from whence the Fancy of Melantha's making Court to her self in Rhodophil's Name is taken but this is usual with our Poet. Mistaken Husband a Comedy acted by His Majesties Servants at the Theatre-Royal and printed in quarto Lond. 1675. This Play Mr. Dryden was not the Author of tho 't was adopted by him as an Orphan which might well deserve the Charity of a Scene which he bestowed on it It is of the nature of Farce or as the French term it Basse Comedie as Mr. Bentley the Bookseller has observ'd 'T is writ on the Model of Plautus's Maenechmi and I have read a Story somewhat like it in L'Amant Oysif Tome 2. p. 297. Nouvelle intitulée D. Martin Oedipus a Tragedy acted at his Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre written by Mr. Dryden and Mr. Lee printed in quarto Lond. 1679. This Play is certainly one of the best Tragedies we have extant the Authors having borrow'd many Ornaments not only from Sophocles but also from Seneca though in requital Mr. Dryden has been pleas'd to arraign the Memory of the later by taxing him of Running after Philosophical Notions more proper for the Study than the Stage As for Corneille he has scouted him for failing in the Character of his Hero which he calls an Error in the first Concoction tho' possibly 't was so in him to fall upon two such Great Men without any provocation and to whom he has been more than once oblig'd for beautiful Thoughts As to the Plot 't is founded on the Tragedies of Sophocles and Seneca Rival Ladies a Tragi-Comedy acted at the Theatre-Royal printed in quarto Lond. 1679. and dedicated to the Right Honourable Roger Earl of Orrery This Dedication is in the Nature of a Preface written in Defence of English Verse The Authors Sentiments were afterwards controverted by Sr. Robert Howard in the Preface to his Plays to which Arguments Mr. Dryden reply'd towards the end of his Dramatick Essay Sr. Robert made a Rejoynder when he publisht his Duke of Lerma and Mr. Dryden answer'd him again in the Preface to his Indian Emperour as I have already observ'd I beg leave of my Reader to make one Remark on this Preface to Rectify the following mistake committed by our Author He says That The Tragedy of Queen Gorbuduc was written in English Verse and consequently that Verse was not so much a new way amongst us as an old way new reviv'd and that this Play was written by the late Lord Buckhurst afterwards Earl of Dorset Mr. Dryden as well as Sr. Fopling notwithstanding his smattering in the Mathematicks is out in his Judgment at Tennis for first tho' His Majesties late Historiographer he is mistaken in the Title-page and I must crave leave to tell him by the by that I never heard of any such Queen of Brittain any more than he of any King that was in Rhodes Nay further had he coâ—â—â—â— Milton's History of England or any other Writers of Brute's History nay even the Argument of that very Play he would have found Gorbuduc to have been the last King of that Race at least the Father of Ferex and Porrex in whom terminated the Line of Brute and consequently would not have permitted so gross an Error to have escapt his Pen for Three Editions tho' it may be Mr. Dryden's Printer was as much to blame to print Queen for King as he ironically accuses Sr. Robert's for setting shut for open There are other Errata's in History which I might impute at least to Mr. Dryden's Negligence but I shall at present wave them In the mean time I must acquaint the Reader that however Mr. Dryden alledges that this Play was writ by the Lord Buckhurst I can assure him that the three first Acts were writ by Mr. Thomas Norton and that the Play it self was not written in Rime but blank Verse or if he will have it in prose mesurée so that Mr. Shakespear notwithstanding our Author's Allegation was not the first beginner of that way of Writing As to his Oeconomy and working up of his Play our Author is not wholly free from Pillage witness the last Act where the Dispute between Amideo and Hippolito with Gonsalvo's fighting with the Pirates is borrow'd from Petronius Arbyter
Gray's Inn. Our Author in the Epistle both to this Play and The English Traveller pleads Modesty in not exposing his Plays to the publick view of the World in numerous Sheets and a large Volume under the Title of Works as others By which he would seem tacitly to arraign some of his Contemporaries for Ostentation and want of Modesty I am apt to believe that our Author levell'd his Accusation at Ben Johnson since no other Poet that I know of in those day gave his Plays the pompous Title of Works of which Sir John Suckling has taken notice in his Sessions of the Poets The first that broke silence was good Old Ben Prepar'd before with Canary Wine And he told them plainly that he deserv'd the Bays For his were call'd Works where others were but Plays This puts me in mind of a Distick directed by some Poet of that Age to Ben Johnson Pray tell me Ben where does the myst'ry lurk What others call a Play you call a Work Which was thus answer'd by a Friend of his The Author's Friend thus for the Author say's Ben's Plays are Works when others Works are Plays Fair Maid of the West or A Girl worth Gold the second Part acted before the King and Queen with approved Liking by the Queens Majesties Comedians printed 4 o Lond. 1631. and dedicated to the true Favourer of the Muses and all good Arts Thomas Hammond Esq of Grays-Inn These Plays as our Author acquaints his Patron ` Not only past the ` Censure of the Plebe and Gentry but of the Patricians and Pretextatae as also of our Royal-Augustus and Livia I know not where our Poet met with this Story but as Poets usually take the Foundation of a Play from a History or a Romance so these two Plays have serv'd for the Subject of a Romance which on this Model was writ by John Dancer above-mentioned to whom I refer you Fortune by Land and Sea a Tragi-comedy acted with great applause by the Queen's Servants written by our Author and the Well-Esteem'd William Rowly but not printed till after their Decease 4 o Lond. 1655. Four Prentices of London with the Conquest of Jerusalem a History divers times acted at the Red-Bull by the Queens Majesties Servants with good applause printed 4 o Lond. 1635. and dedicated to the Honest High-Spirited Prentices the Readers This Play was written as the Author says in his Infancy of Judgement in this kind of Poetry and his first Practice and that as Plays were then some sixteen Years before its Publication it was in the Fashion This Play is founded on the Exploits of the Famous Godfrey of Bulloign who took Jerusalem from the Infidels the 15. of July A.D. 1099. For the Story see Tasso's Il Gosredo Dr. Fuller's Holy War The late History of the Croïsades c. If you know not me you know no Body or The Troubles of Queen Elizabeth a History in two Parts printed 4 o Lond. 1623. This Play was printed without the Author's Knowledge or Consent and that so corruptly it not being divided into Acts that at the Reviving of it at the Cock-pit after having been acted for the space of one and twenty Years he writ a Prologue which particularly inveigh'd against this Imperfect Copy as will appear by the following Lines 'T was ill nurst And yet receiv'd as well perform'd at first Grac'd and frequented for the Cradle-Age Did throng the Seats the Boxes and the Stage So much that some by Stenography drew The Plot put it in print scarce one word true And in that lameness it has limpt so long The Author now to vindicate that wrong Hath took the pains upright upon it's feet To teach it walk so please you sit and see 't For the Plot see the Writers of the Life of Q. Elizabeth as Cambden Speed Du Chesne c. And our Author had so great a Veneration for that Heroick Pricess that he writ a little Historical Piece call'd England's Elizabeth printed 8 o Lond. 1631. Lancashire Witches a well receiv'd Comedy acted at the Globe on the Bank-side by the Kings Majesties Actors written by our Author and the Ingenious Rich. Brome and printed 4o. Lond. 16 I have read in my younger Days if I mistake not the Foundation of this Play in an old English Quarto but as to that part of the Plot where Whetstone revenges himself by his Aunt 's means on Arthur Shakstone and Bantam for calling him Bastard Act 4. Sc. the last 't is founded on the Story of John Teutonicus of Holberstad a place in High-Germany who was a known Bastard and a Magician Our Author has related this Story in Verse in his Hierarchy of Angels Lib. 8. pag. 512 c. Loves Mistris or The Queen's Masque three times acted before their Majesties within the space of eight Days in the presence of sundry Forreign Embassadours Publickly acted by the Queen's Comedians at the Phoenix in Drury-Lane The Second Impression corrected by the Author printed 4 o Lond. 1640. and dedicated to the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Dorset The Play is founded on Apuleius's Golden Ass a kind of Romance in Latin and English'd by W. Addington 4 o Lond. 1634. Maidenhead well lost a pleasant Comedy publickly acted in Drury-Lane with much applause by her Majesties Servants printed 4o. Lond. 1634. Rape of Lucrece a true Roman Tragedy with the several Songs in their appointed places by Valerius the merry Lord among the Roman Peers The Copy revis'd and sundry Songs before omitted now inserted in their right places acted by the Majesties Servants at the Red-Bull printed 4 o Lond. 1638. For the Plot see Livy Dec. 1. C. 58. Florus Lib. 1. C. 7. Val. Max. Lib. 6. C. 11. Ex. 1. Robert Earl of Huntington's Downfall afterwards call'd Robin Hood of Merry Sherwoode with his Love to Chaste Matilda the Lord Fitz-water's Daughter afterwards his Fair Maid Marian acted by the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham the Lord High Admiral of England his Servants and printed 4o. Lond. 1601. Robert Earl of Huntington's Death otherwise call'd Robin Hood of Merry Sherwoode with the Lamentable Tragedy of Chaste Matilda his Fair Maid Marian poyson'd at Dunmow by the King and printed 4o. Lond. 1601. Both these Plays are printed in Black-Letter but neither of them are divided into Acts. The first part is introduc'd by John Shelton Poet Laureat to King Henry the Eighth and the the second by Fryar Tuck For the Plot see our English Chronicles in the Reign of King Richard the First as Du Chesne Speed Baker c. See besides Fullers Worthies in the Account of Nottinghamshire p. 315 Drayton's Polyolbion Song 26. Royal King and Loyal Subject a Tragi-comedy acted with great applause by the Queens Majesties Servants and printed 4o. Lond. 1637. The Plot of this Play extreamly resembles that of Fletcher's Loyal Subject Wise-Woman of Hogsden a Comedy sundry times acted with good applause printed quarto Lond. 1638. This Play is commended
made him Famous all over England Of these he has writ A Discourse of Horsemanship printed 4o. without Date and dedicated to Prince Henry Eldest Son to King James the First Cure of all Diseases incident to Horses 4o. 1610. English Farriar 4o. 1649. Master-piece 4o. 1662. Faithful Farriar 8o. 1667. Perfect Horseman 120. 1671. For Husbandry he publisht Liebault's Le Maison Rustique or The Country Farm Fol. Lond. 1616. This Treatise which was at first translated by Mr. Richard Surflet a Physitian our Author enlarg'd with several Additions from the French Books of Serres and Vinet the Spanish of Albiterio and the Italian of Grilli and others The Art of Husbandry first translated from the Latine of Conr. Heresbachius by Barnaby Googe he revis'd and augmented 4o. 1631. He writ besides Farewel to Husbandry 4o. 1620. Way to get Wealth wherein is compris'd his Country Contentments printed 4o. 1668. To this I may add Hungers Prevention or his Art of Fowling 8o. His Epitome 120. c. In Military Discipline he has publisht The Souldiers Accidence and Grammar 4o. 1635. Besides these the second part of the First Book of The English Arcadia is said to be writ by him insomuch that he may be accounted if not Unus in Omnibus at least a Benefactor to the Publick by those Works he left behind him which will without doubt eternise his Memory Christopher MARLOE An Author that was Cotemporary with the Incomparable Shakespear and One who trod the Stage with Applause both from Queen Elizabeth and King James Nor was he accounted a less Excellent Poet by the Judicious Johnson and Heywood his Fellow Actor stiles him the Best of Poets In what esteem he was in his time may be gathered from part of a Copy of Verses writ in that Age call'd a Censure of the Poets where he is thus Characteriz'd Next Marlow bathed in the Thespian Springs Had in him those brave Sublunary things That your First-Poets had his Raptures were All Air and Fire which made his Verses clear For that fine Madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a Poet's Brain His Genius inclin'd him wholly to Tragedy and he has obliged the world with Seven Plays of this kind of his own Composure besides One in which he join'd with Nash call'd Dido Queen of Carthage which I never saw Of the others take the following Account Dr. Faustus his Tragical History printed 4o. Lond. 1661. There is an old Edition which I never saw but this is printed with new Additions of several Scenes The Plot or the Foundation of this Play may be read in several Authors as Camerarei Hor. Subcisiv Cent. 1. Wierus de Praestigiis Daemonum Lib. 2. Cap. 4. Lonicerus c. Edward the Second a Tragedy printed 4o. Lond. I know not the Date or the Stage where this Play was acted thro' the defect of my Title-page For the Plot consult the Historians that have writ on those Times as Ranulphus Higden Walsingham Math. Westminster Especially those that have more particularly writ his Life as Thomas de la More Sr. Fr. Hubert c. Jew of Malta a Tragedy play'd before the King and Queen in her Majesties Theatre at Whitehall and by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit printed 4o. Lond. 1633. after the Author's Decease and dedicated by Mr. Thomas Heywood the Publisher To his Worthy Friend Mr. Thomas Hammon of Gray's Inn. This Play was in much esteem in those days the Jew's Part being play'd by Mr. Edward Allen that Ornament both to Black-friars Stage and to his Profession to the One on Account of of his excellent Action to the Other of his exemplary Piety in founding Dulwich Hospital in Surrey What Opinion Mr. Heywood had of the Author and Actor may be seen by the beginning of his Prologue spoke at the Cock-pit We know not how our Play may pass this Stage But by the best of Poets in that Age The Malta Jew had being and was made And He then by the best of Actors play'd In Hero and Leander one did gain A lasting Memory in Tamberlain This Jew with others many th' other wan The Attribute of peerless being a Man Whom we may rank with doing no one wrong Proteus for Shapes and Roscius for a Tongue Lust's Dominion or The Lascivious Queen a Tragedy publisht by Mr. Kirkman 8o. Lond. 1661. and dedicated to his worthily honour'd Friend William Carpenter Esquire This Play was alter'd by Mrs. Behn and acted under the Title of Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge Massacre of Paris with the Death of the Duke of Guise a Tragedy play'd by the Right Honourable the Lord Admiral 's Servants printed octavo Lond. This Play is not divided into Acts it begins with that fatal Marriage between the King of Navarre and Marguerite de Valois Sister to King Charles the Ninth the Occasion of the Massacre and ends with the Death of Henry the Third of France For the Plot see the Writers of those times in the Reigns of these two Kings Ch. IX and Henry III. Thuanus Davila Pierre Matthieu Dupleix Mezeray c. Tamburlain the Great or The Scythian Shepherd a Tragedy in two parts sundry times acted by the Lord Admiral 's Servants printed in an old Black-Letter octavo Lond. 1593. Had I not Mr. Heywood's Word for it In the fore-mention'd Prologue I should not believe this Play to be his it being true what an ingenious Author said That whoever was the Author he might ev'n keep it to himself secure from Plagiary For the Story see those that have writ his Life in particular as Pietro Perondini M. St. Sanctyon Du Bec c. and those that have treated of the Affairs of Turks and Tartars in general in the Reigns of Bajazet and Tamerlane as Laonicus Chalcocondylas Pet. Bizarus Knolles c. He writ besides a Poem call'd Hero and Leander Whose mighty Lines says One Mr. Benjamin Johnson a Man sensible enough of his own Abilities was often heard to say that they were Examples sitler for Admiration than Paralel This Poem being left imperfect by our our Author who according to Mr. Philips In some riotous Fray came to an untimely and violent End it was finished by Mr. Chapman and printed octavo Lond. 1606. Shakerley MARMION A Gentleman born in the Reign of King Charles the First at Ainoe in Sutton Hundred in the County of Northampton about the beginning of January A. D. 1602. He was bred up at Thame-School in Oxfordshire and at fifteen Years of Age was sent to the University of Oxford where he became a Member of Wadham Colledge and in 1624. he took his Master of Arts Degree What further became of him I know not all that I am able to inform the Reader is that he was the Author of three Comedies which have formerly been well approv'd viz. Antiquary a Comedy acted by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit and printed quarto Lond. 1641. Aurelio's declaring his Marriage to the Duke and
King of Persia a Tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre printed 4o. 3 d Edit Lond. 1675. and dedicated to the Illustrious Princess Anne Dutchess of Monmouth This Tragedy is written in Heroick Verse and founded on History For the Plot see Justin Herodotus Ammianus Marcellinus c. Conquest of China by the Tartars a Tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre printed 4o. Lond. 1676. and dedicated to the Lord Castle-Rizing This is also writ in Heroick Verse and founded on History See Signior Palafax his History of China translated in octavo John Gonzales de Mendoza Lewis de Guzman c. Empress of Morocco a Tragedy in Heroick Verse acted at the Duke's Theatre printed with Sculptures 4o. Lond. 1673. and dedicated to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Norwich and Earl-Marshal of England This Play Mr. Dryden writ particularly against in a Pamphlet called Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco or some few Erratas to be printed instead of the Sculptures with the second Edition of that Play printed 4o. Lond. 1674. This as I have already observ'd was answered by another Pamphlet which shewed Mr. Dryden was not Infallible but that notwithstanding his Bravadoes he himself was as faulty as others and that he had verified the Spanish Proverb No es tan bravo el Leon come le pintan The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him Fatal Love or The forc'd Inconstancy a Tragedy acted at the Theatre-Royal printed 4o. Lond. 1680. and dedicated to Sir Robert Owen This Play is founded on Achilles Tatius his Romance called Clitiphon and Leucippe see Book the fifth The English Reader may peruse it translated in octavo printed Oxon. 1638. Female Prelate being the History of the Life and Death of Pope Joan a Tragedy acted at the Theatre-Royal printed 4o. Lond. 1680. and dedicated to the Right Honourable the late Earl of Shaftsbury This Play being founded on History see Marianus Scotus Sigibert Sabellicus and for the English he may read Platina translated in Fol. by Sir Paul Ricault and the Life and Death of Pope Joan written heretofore in a Dialogue by Mr. Alexander Cooke a Gentleman formerly a Fellow of University Colledge in Oxford a Piece so much cry'd up and admir'd in those Times that it was translated into French by J. De la Montaigne 'T is now published in a set Discourse 8o. Lond. 1675. The Reader will find there a List of those Authors who affirm and those who deny the truth of this Story Heir of Morocco with the Death of Gayland acted at the Theatre-Royal printed 4o. Lond. 1682. and dedicated to the Lady Henrietta Wentworth Baroness of Nettlested Ibraim the Illustrious Bassa a Tragedy in Heroick Verse acted at the Duke's Theatre printed 4o. Lond. 1677. and dedicated to the Dutchess of Albermarle The Play is founded on M. Scudery's Romance so called Love and Revenge a Tragedy acted at the Duke's Theatre printed 4o. Lond. 1675. and dedicated to the Late Duke of Newcastle 'T is a great part borrowed from a Play called The Fatal Contract and is founded on the French Chronicles see Mezeray De Serres c. 'T is pitty our Author was so little considerate to fall upon Mr. Shadwell in his Postscript when he lay so open to an Attaque himself and if our Laureat reply'd too severely upon him in his Preface to the Libertine 't was but se defendendo and he being the Aggressor ought to forgive it Pastor Fido or Faithful Shepherd a Pastoral acted at the Duke's Theatre printed 4o. Lond. 1677. and dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Delaval The Play was written in Italian by Guarini and afterwards translated by Sir Ric. Fanshaw This Translation our Author has follow'd being a stranger to the Italian tho' possibly it may by ill natur'd Criticks be thought a presumption to attempt to improve either the Original or the Copy Our Author I think has several Copies of Verses in print besides Prose but because some of them will not advance his Reputation and of others I know not exactly which he writ I shall omit further mentioning of them in this place Tho. SHADWELL Esq Poet Laureat to their present Majesties A Gentleman whose Dramatick Works are sufficiently known to the World but especially his Excellent Comedies which in the Judgment of some Persons have very deservedly advanced him to the Honour he now enjoys under the Title of Poet Laureat to their present Majesties An Advancement which he ingeniously consesses is chiefly owing to the Patronage of the Noble Earl of Dorset that Great Judge of Wit and Parts in whose Favour it has been Mr. Shadwell's particular Happiness sor several Years to have had an Eminent Share Mr. Dryden I dare presume little imagined when he writ that Satyr of Mack-Flecknoe that the Subject he there so much exposes and ridicules should have ever lived to have succeeded him in wearing the Bays But I am willing to say the less of Mr. Shadwell because I have publickly profess'd a Friendship for him and tho' it be not of so long date as some former Intimacy with others so neither is it blemished with some unhandsome Dealings I have met with from Persons where I least expected it I shall therefore speak of him with the Impartiality that becomes a Critick and own I like His Comedies better than Mr. Dryden's as having more Variety of Characters and those drawn from the Life I mean Men's Converse and Manners and not from other Mens Ideas copyed out of their publick Writings tho' indeed I cannot wholly acquit our Present Laureat from borrowing his Plagiaries being in some places too bold and open to be disguised of which I shall take Notice as I go along tho' with this Remark That several of them are observed to my Hand and in a great measure excused by himself in the publick Acknowledgment he makes in his several Prefaces to the Persons to whom he was obliged for what he borrowed That Mr. Shadwell has propos'd B. Johnson for his Model I am very certain of and those who will read the Preface to the Humorists may be sufficiently satisfied what a value he has for that Great Man but how far he has succeeded in his Design I shall leave to the Reader 's Examination So far only give me leave to premise in our Laureat's Defence that the Reader is not to measure his Merit by Mr. Dryden's Standard since Socrates never was more persecuted by the Inhumane Aristophanes than Mr. Shadwell by Mr. Dryden's Pen and with the same injustice tho' I think whoever shall peruse the Modest Defence of the former in his Epistle to the tenth Satyr of Juvenal will not only acquit him but love him for his good Humour and gentle Temper to One who endeavour'd to destroy his Reputation so dear to All Men but the very Darling of Poets as Ovid says Quid petitur sacris nisi tantum fama Poetis Hoc votum nostri summa laboris habet Mr. Shadwell has
for leaving his own Province of Comedy to invade their Dominion of Rhime But as our Author never valu'd himself upon this Play so his Design at that time was to entertain the Town with variety of Musick curious Dancing splendid Scenes and Machines and not with fine Poetry the Audience being not at leisure to mind the Writing The foundation of this Play is Apuleius his Aureus Asinus which the Reader may read in English under the Title of The Golden Ass translated by W. Adlington printed 4o. Lond. 1639. How far he has borrow'd from the French Psyche he tells you in the Preface and I leave it to those which have seen it which I have not to give Judgment to whom the preference belongs How much this Opera takes every Body that is acquainted with the Theatre knows and with reason since the greatest Masters in Vocal Musick Dancing and Painting were concern'd in it Royal Shepherdess a Tragi-comedy acted by his Highness the Duke of York's Servants and printed 4o. Lond. 1669. This Play as our Poet owns was originally Mr. Fountain's of Devonshire and without descanting on the Play I shall refer the Reader to the view of Mr. Shadwell's Epistle to the Reader and the Comparison of both Plays which are in print for his satisfaction Squire of Alsatia a Comedy acted by their Majesties Servants printed 4o. Lond. 1688. and dedicated to the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex The Ground of this Play is from Terence his Adelphi especially the two Characters of Mitio and Demea which I think are improv'd If he has not taken notice of having borrowed these Characters 't is because he is not beholding to the French or English for his Model and that those for whom he chiefly writes are Persons that are well acquainted with Poets of Antiquity and need not be informed 'T is sufficient for the vulgar Audience that the Play is taking and divertive without troubling their Heads whence 't is borrowed and all People must allow that no Comedy has found better success than this since the Restauration of the Theatre Sullen Lovers or The Impertinents a Comedy acted by his Highness the Duke of York's Servants printed 4o. Lond. 1670. and dedicated to the late Duke of Newcastle The Author owns that he receiv'd a hint from the Report of Molliere's Les Fâcheux upon which he wrote a great part of his Play before he saw it The Play is regular and diverting and the Author himself has better defended it than I am able to do nor doth he at any time need a Second and therefore I refer you to his Preface for Satisfaction Timon of Athens the Man-hater his History acted at the Duke's Theatre made into a Play printed 4o. Lond. 1678. and dedicated to the late Duke of Buckingham The Play is originally Shakespear's but so imperfectly printed that 't is not divided into Acts. How much our Author has added or expung'd I must leave to the Examination of the less busie Reader I not having time at present to enquire into particulars True Widow a Comedy acted at the Duke's Theatre printed 4o. Lond. 1679. and dedicated to Sir Charles Sidley This Play I take to be as true Comedy and the Characters and Humours to be as well drawn as any of this Age. Virtuoso a Comedy acted at the Duke's Theatre printed 4o. Lond. 1676. and dedicated to his Grace the late Duke of Newcastle I think there is no Body will deny this Play its due Applause at least I know that the University of Oxford who may be allowed Competent Judges of Comedy especially of such Characters as Sir Nicholas Gimcrack and Sir Formal Trisle applauded it and as no Man ever undertook to discover the Frailties of such Pretenders tenders to this kind of Knowledge before Mr. Shadwell so none since Mr. Johnson's Time ever drew so many different Characters of Humours and with such Success Woman-Captain a Comedy acted at his Royal Highnesses Servants printed 4o. Lond. 167 and dedicated to Henry Lord Ogle Son to his Grace Henry Duke of Newcastle If this Play falls short of the former at least it wants not variety of Characters which have gained it a Reputation above what is written by pitiful Poets of the Fourth-Rate our Author 's perpetual Enemies who are no more to be regarded than the buzzing of Flies and Insects in hot Weather which tho' troublesome are inoffensive and without Stings and for his greatest Enemy he has imitated the Bee that with his Malice has left his Sting behind him I hope now our Author is advanced to a Station wherein he will endeavour to exert his Muse and having found Encouragement from Majesty it self aim at writing Dramatick Pieces equal to those of Antiquity which however applauded have been paralelled I was about to say excelled by the Comedies of the Admirable Johnson I must do Mr. Dryden so much Justice as to acknowledge that in Epick Poetry he far exceeds not only Mr. Shadwell but most if not all the Poets of our Age and I could wish our present Laureat would not give his predecessor such frequent Advantages over him but rather confine himself within his own Sphere of Comedy He has several Poems extant but because his Name is not affix'd to them I shall mention but Three viz. The tenth Satyr of Juvenal translated with Notes printed 4o. Lond. 1687. A Congratulatory Poem on his Highness the Prince of Orange coming into England and another to the most Illustrious Q. Mary upon her Arrival both printed 4o. Lond. 1689. William SHAKESPEAR One of the most Eminent Poets of his Time he was born at Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire and flourished in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James the First His Natural Genius to Poetry was so excellent that like those Diamonds which are found in Cornwall Nature had little or no occasion for the Assistance of Art to polish it The Truth is 't is agreed on by most that his Learning was not extraordinary and I am apt to believe that his Skill in the French and Italian Tongues exceeded his Knowledge in the Roman Language for we find him not only beholding to Cynthio Giraldi and Bandello for his Plots but likewise a Scene in Henry the Fifth written in French between the Princess Catherine and her Governante Besides Italian Proverbs scatter'd up and down in his Writings Few Persons that are acquainted with Dramatick Poetry but are convinced of the Excellency of his Compositions in all Kinds of it and as it would be superfluous in me to endeavour to particularise what most deserves praise in him after so many Great Men that have given him their several Testimonials of his Merit so I should think I were guilty of an Injury beyond pardon to his Memory should I so far disparage it as to bring his Wit in competition with any of our Age. 'T is true Mr. Dryden has censured him very severely in his Postscript to Granada but in cool Blood
and when the Enthusiastick Fit was past he has acknowledged him in his Dramatick Essay Equal at least if not Superiour to Mr. Johnson in Poesie I shall not here repeat what has been before urged in his behalf in that Common Defence of the Poets of that Time against Mr. Dryden's Account of Ben. Johnson but shall take the Liberty to speak my Opinion as my predecessors have done of his Works which is this That I esteem his Plays beyond any that have ever been published in our Language and tho' I extreamly admire Johnson and Fletcher yet I must still aver that when in competition with Shakespear I must apply to them what Justus Lipsius writ in his Letter to Andraeas Schottus concerning Terence and Plautus when compar'd Terentium amo admiror sed Plautum magis He has writ about Forty six Plays all which except three are bound in one Volume in Fol. printed Lond. 1685. The whole Book is dedicated to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery being usher'd into the World with several Copies of Verses but none more valued than those Lines made by Ben Johnson which being too long to be here transcribed I shall leave them to be perus'd by the Reader with his Works of which I shall give some Account as follows All 's well that ends well a Comedy This Play is founded on a Novel written by Jean Boccacio see his Nov. Day the 3. Nov. the 9. concerning Juliet of Narbona and Bertrand Count of Rossilion Anthony and Cleopatra a Tragedy The Ground of this Play is founded on History see Plutarch's Life of Anthony Appian Dion Cassius Diodorus Florus c. As you like it a Comedy Comedy of Errors This Play is founded on Plautus his Maenechmi and if it be not a just Translation 't is at least a Paraphrase and I think far beyond the Translation call'd Menechmus which was printed 4o. Lond. 1595. Coriolanus a Tragedy This is founded on History see Livy Dionysius Hallicarnassaeus Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus c. Part of this Play appear'd upon the Stage seven Years since under the Title of Ingratitude of a Common-Wealth Cromwell Thomas Ld. the History of his Life and Death This Play is likewise founded on History See Fox's Martyrology Fuller's Church History Stow Speed Hollingshead Herbert Baker Dr. Burnet c. The Story of Cromwell and Mr. Frescobald the Merchant is related in Dr. Hakewell's Apology and Wanley's History of Man Book 3. Ch. 20 Cymbeline his Tragedy This Play tho' the Title bear the Name of a King of Brute's Linage yet I think ows little to the Chronicles of those Times as far as I can collect from Graston Stow Milton c. But the Subject is rather built upon a Novel in Boccace viz. Day 2. Nov. 9. This Play was reviv'd by Durfey about seven Years since under the Title of The Injured Princess or The Fatal Wager Henry the Fourth the First part with the Life of Henry Percy sirnamed Hot-spur This Play is built upon our English History see the four former Years of his Reign in Harding Buchanan Caxton Walsingham Fabian Polydore Virgil Hall Grafton Hollingshead Heyward Trussel Martin Stow Speed Baker c. As to the Comical part 't is certainly our Author 's own Invention and the Character of Sir John Falstaff is owned by Mr. Dryden to be the best of Comical Characters and the Author himself had so good an Opinion of it that he continued it in no less than four Plays This part used to be play'd by Mr. Lacy and never fail'd of universal applause Henry the Fourth the Second part containing his Death and the Coronation of King Henry the Fifth For the Historical part consult the fore-mentioned Authors The Epilogue to this Play is writ in Prose and shews that 't was writ in the Time of Q. Elizabeth Henry the Fifth his Life This Play is likewise writ and founded on History with a Mixture of Comedy The Play is continued from the beginning of his Reign to his Marriage with Katherine of France For Historians see as before Harding Caxton Walsingham c. This Play was writ during the time that Essex was General in Ireland as you may see in the beginning of the first Act where our Poet by a pretty Turn compliments Essex and seems to foretell Victory to Her Majesties Forces against the Rebels Henry the Sixth the First part Henry the Sixth the Second part with the Death of the Good Duke Humphrey Henry the Sixth the Third part with the Death of the Duke of York These three Plays contain the whole length of this Kings Reign viz. Thirty eight Years six Weeks and four Days Altho' this be contrary to the strict Rules of Dramatick Poetry yet it must be own'd even by Mr. Dryden himself That this Picture in Miniature has many Features which excell even several of his more exact Strokes of Symmetry and Proportion For the Story consult the Writers of those Times viz. Caxton Fabian Pol. Virgil. Hall Hollingshead Grafton Stow Speed c. Henry the Eighth the Famous History of his Life This Play frequently appears on the present Stage the part of Henry being extreamly well acted by Mr. Betterton This Play is founded on History likewise Hollingsh Hall Grafton Stow Speed Herbert Martin Baker c. Hamlet Prince of Denmark his Tragedy I know not whether this Story be true or false but I cannot find in the List given by Dr. Heylin such a King of Denmark as Claudius All that I can inform the Reader is the Names of those Authors that have written of the Affairs of Denmark and Norway and must leave it to their further search such are Saxo-Grammaticus Idacius Crantzius Pontanus c. This Play was not many Years ago printed in quarto all being mark'd according to the Custom of the Stage which was cut out in the Action John King of England his Life and Death For the Plot see Matth. Paris R. Higden Walsingham Westminster Fabian Pol. Virgil Hollingshead Grafton Stow Speed c. Julius Caesar his Tragedy This Play is founded on History see Livy Plutarch Suetonius c. This Play was reviv'd at the Theatre-Royal about fifteen Years ago and printed 4o. Lond. 1684. There is an Excellent Prologue to it printed in Covent Garden Drollery p. 9. Lear King of England his Tragedy This Play is founded on History see such Authors as have written concerning Brutes History as Leland Glocester Huntingdon Monmouth c. But the Subject of this Story may be read succinctly in Milton's History of England 4o. Book 1. p. 17. c. This Play about eight Years since was reviv'd with Alterations by Mr. Tate Locrine Eldest Son to King Brutus his Tragedy This Tragedy contains his Reign with the loss of Estrildis and Sabra which according to Isaacson's Chronology was twenty Years For the Authors consult those aforemention'd particularly Milton Book 1. p. 14. Supplement to Theatre of Gods Judgments Ch. 6 Ubaldino Le vite delle Donne Illustri p.
have created a Person which was not in Nature a boldness which at first sight would appear intolerable For he makes him a species of himself begotten by an Incubus on a Witch but this is not wholly beyond the bounds of Credibility at least the Vulgar I suppose still believe it But this is not the only Character of this Nature that Mr. Shakespear has written for Merlin as he introduces him is cozen-German to Caliban by Birth as those may observe who will read that Play As to the Foundation of this Comedy I am ignorant whether it be the Author 's own Contrivance or a Novel built up into a Play Titus Andronicus his Lamentable Tragedy This Play was first printed 4o. Lond. 1594. and acted by the Earls of Derby Pembroke and Essex their Servants 'T was about the time of the Popish-plot revived and altered by Mr. Ravenscroft In his Preface to the Reader he says That he thinks it a greater theft to rob the Dead of their Praise than the Living of their Money Whether his Practice agree with his Protestation I leave to the Comparison of his Works with those of Molliere and whether Mr. Shadwell's Opinion of Plagiaries reach not Mr. Ravenscroft I leave to the Reader I says he ingeniously freely confess my Theft and am asham'd on 't tho' I have the Example of some that never yet wrote a Play without stealing most of it and like Men that Lye so long till they believe themselves at length by continual Thieving reckon their stollen Goods their own too which is so Ignoble a thing that I cannot but believe that he that makes a common practice of stealing other Men's Wit would if he could with the same Safety steal any thing else Mr. Ravenscroft in the Epistle to Titus says That the Play was not originally Shakespear's but brought by a private Author to be acted and he only gave some Master-touches to one or two of the principal Parts or Characters afterwards he boasts his own pains and says That if the Reader compare the Old Play with his Copy he will find that none in all that Author's Works ever receiv'd greater Alterations or Additions the Language not only refined but many Scenes entirely new Besides most of the principal Characters heightened and the Plot much encreased I shall not engage in this Controversy but leave it to his Rivals in the Wrack of that Great Man Mr. Dryden Shadwell Crown Tate and Durfey But to make Mr. Ravenscroft some Reparation I will here furnish him with part of his Prologue which he has lost and if he desire it send him the whole To day the Poet does not fear your Rage Shakespear by him reviv'd now treads the Stage Under his sacred Lawrels he sits down Safe form the blast of any Criticks Frown Like other Poets he 'll not proudly scorn To own that he but winnow'd Shakespear's Corn So far he was from robbing him of 's Treasure That he did add his own to make full Measure Timon of Athens his Life This Play was thought fit to be presented on the Stage with some Alterations by Mr. Shadwell in the Year 1678. I shall say more of it in the Accounts of his Works The Foundation of the Story may be read in Plutarch's Life of M. Anthony see besides Lucian's Dialogues c. Troilus and Cressida a Tragedy Of this Play I have already given an Account see the Name in the Remarks on Mr. Dryden who altered this Play in the Year 1679. Twelfth-Night or What you will a comedy I know not whence this Play was taken but the Resemblance of Sebastian to his Sister Viola and her change of Habit occasioning so many mistakes was doubtless first borrowed not only by Shakespear but all our succeeding Poets from Plautus who has made use of it in several Plays as Amphitruo Maenechmi c. Two Gentlemen of Verona a Comedy Winter's Tale a Tragi-comedy The Plot of this Play may be read in a little Stitcht-pamphlet which is call'd as I remember The Delectable History of Dorastus and Fawnia printed 4o. Lond. Yorkshire Tragedy not so new as lamentable and true This may rather deserve the Old Title of an Interlude than a Tragedy it being not divided into Acts and being far too short for a Play These are all that are in Folio there rest yet three Plays to be taken notice of which are printed in quarto viz. Birth of Merlin or The Child has lost his Father a Tragi-comedy several times acted with great applause and printed quarto Lond. 1662. This Play was writ by our Author and Mr. W. Rowly of which we have already spoken For the Plot consult the Authors of those times such as Ethelwerd Bede G. Monmouth Fabian Pol. Virgil Stow Speed c. Ubaldino Le Vite delle Donne Illustri p. 18. John King of England his troublesome Reign the First and Second Part with Discovery of King Richard Coeur de lyon's Base Son vulgarly named the Bastard Fawconbridge Also the Death of King John at Swinstead Abbey As they were sundry times acted by the Queens Majesties Players printed quarto Lond. 1611. These Plays are not divided into Acts neither are the same with that in Folio I am apt to conjecture that these were first writ by our Author and afterwards revised and reduced into one Play by him that in the Folio being far the better For the Plot I refer you to the Authors aforementioned in that Play which bears the same Title Besides these Plays I know Mr. Kirkman ascribes another Pastoral to him viz. The Arraignment of Paris but having never seen it I dare not determine whether it belongs to him or no. Certain I am that our Author has writ two small Poems viz. Venus and Adonis printed 8o. Lond. 1602. and The Rape of Lucrece printed 8o. Lond. 1655. publish'd by Mr. Quarles with a little Poem annext of his own production which bear the Title of Tarquin banished or The Reward of Lust. Sr. John Sucklin had so great a Value for our Author that as Mr. Dryden observes in his Dramatick Essay he preferred him to Iohnson and what value he had for this small Piece of Lucrece may appear from his Supplement which he writ and which he has publisht in his Poems which because it will give you a taste of both their Muses I shall transcribe I. One of her Hands one of her Cheeks lay under Cozening the Pillow of a lawfull Kiss Which therefore swell'd seem'd to part asunder As angry to be robb'd of such a Bliss The One lookt pale and for Revenge did long Whilst t' other blusht 'cause it had done the wrong II. Out of the Bed the other fair Hand was On a green Sattin Quilt whose perfect white Lookt like a Dazie in a field of Grass And shew'd like unmelt snow unto the sight There lay this pretty perdue safe to keep The rest o' th' Body that lay fast asleep III. Her Eyes and
Ingenious Person lately deceas'd being one of the Squire Bedles in the University of Oxford His Skill in Languages particularly in Latin and Greek is sufficiently known to the Learned World He translated out of Greek the Electra of Sophocles and presented it to Her Highness the Lady Elizabeth printed 120. at the Hague 1649. Several Translations besides he has publish'd as Gratius his Cynegeticon printed 8o. Lond. 1654. and Prioli's Hist. of France some of Tully's Orations and his Latin Dictionary besides other School-Books several of which have been often reprinted and all of them shew his Great Industry and Parts E. W. A Person who was tho' not the Author yet the occasion of the Publication of a Comedy call'd Apollo Shroving compos'd for the Scholars of the Free-School of Hadleigh in Suffolk and acted by them on Shrove-Tuesday Feb. 6. 1626. written by the School-Master of Hadleigh and printed octavo 1627. J. W. The Author of a Play call'd The Valiant Scot which was printed 4o. Lond. 1637. and dedicated to the Right Honourable James Marquess Hamilton by the Publisher or Promoter of the Copy to the Press Mr. William Bowyer L. W. The Author of a Play call'd Orgula or The Fatal Error a Tragedy wherunto is annexed a Preface discovering the true Nature of Poesie with the proper use and Intention of such publick Divertisements printed 4o. Lond. 1658. and dedicated to the most accomplish'd Lady the Lady Frances Wildegoss M. W. Master of Arts. Another Author whose Play is bound in the Ternary of Plays 't is call'd The Marriage Broker or The Pander a Comedy printed 120. 1662. T. W. The third Author concern'd in that Volume having writ a Tragedy call'd Thornby-Abby or The London Maid All these Plays are dedicated to William Austin Esq by R. D. the Publisher W. W. The Translator of a Comedy writ by Plausus call'd Manaechmi printed 4o. Lond. 1515. This Author had translated several others in Manuscript tho' they were never permitted to come abroad in the World Unknown Authors WE are now come to the last Division of Authors I mean those whose Modesty or other Reasons have hinder'd the publication of their Names and as we have Decyphered some Authors in the foregoing Division upon Conjecture so we shall not pretermit to take Notice of such Plays whose Authors we can any ways guess at in this I shall Rank these as I did the former in an Alphabetical Method A. Abdicated Prince or The Adventures of Four Years a Tragi-comedy lately acted at Alba-Regalis by several Persons of Great Quality and printed Lond. 4 o 1690. This Play contains the Transactions of the Court and Nation during the Reign of the late King James under seigned Names there needs no Clavis the Persons being obvious to all Intelligent Persons The time of the Action is from the Coronation of King James to the Landing of his present Majesty Abraham's Sacrifice a Play which I never saw but do believe that it may possibly be a Translation from Theodore Beza Alarum for London or The Siege of Antwerpe with the Venturous Acts and Valiant Deeds of the Lame Souldier play'd by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlain his Servants printed Lond. 1602. Albion an Interlude mention'd by Kirkman which I never saw Albion's Triumph personated in a Masque at Court by the King and Queens Majesties and the Lords the Sunday after Twelfth-Night 1631. printed 4o. Lond. 1631. Mr. Inigo Jones had a Share in the Contrivance of this Masque Albumazar a Comedy presented before the King's Majesty at Cambridge by the Gentlemen of Trinity Colledge printed 4o. Lond. 1634. This was reviv'd at the King's House and a Prologue writ by Mr. Dryden see Miscellan Poems publish'd by him 8o. p. 279. Aminta a Pastoral translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso to which is added Arriadne's Complaint in Imitation of Anguilara written by our Translator both printed in quarto Lond. 1628. Amorous Gallant or Love in Fashion a Comedy in Heroick Verse as it was acted and printed 4o. Lond. 1675. This Play has appeared abroad under the Title of The Amorous Orontus It is translated from a French Play written by Th. Corneille and call'd L'Amour à la mode It is founded on a Spanish Play writ by Ant. de Solis call'd by the same Name towit El Amor al uso Amorous Old Woman or 'T is well if it take a Comedy acted by their Majesties Servants and printed 4o. Lond. 1684. I have been told this Play was writ by Tho. Duffet 't is printed with a New Title-page call'd The Fond Lady Arden of Feversham his True and Lamentable Tragedy who was most wickedly murthered by the means of his disloyal Wife who for the love she bare to one Mosebie hired two desperate Ruffins Black-will and Shak-bag to kill him printed 4o. Lond. 1599. in a Black Letter The Story is to be found in the Reign of Edward the Sixth see Hollingshead Goodwin Hayward Baker Beard 's Theatre of God's Judgment Book 2. Ch. 10. Edit 4. and the second part Chap. 6. added by Dr. Tho. Taylour Arraignment of Paris a Pastoral which I never saw but it is ascribed by Kirkman to Mr. W. Shakespear B. Battle of Aliazar fought in Barbary between Sebastian King of Portugal and Abdelmelech King of Morocco with the Death of Captain Stukeley play'd sundry times by the Lord High Admiral 's Servants printed 4o. Lond. 1594. For the Plot several Authors mention the Story the English Reader may find it in Heylin's Cosmography and Fuller's Worthies Band Ruff and Cuff an Interlude which other Catalogues mention but which I never saw Bastard a Tragedy printed 4o. Lond. 1652. The Plot of this Tragedy and part of the Language concerning Clare Rodriguez Balthazar and Mariana is borrow'd from the Loves of Schiarra and Florelia in the English Lovers and Catilina's Supplying her Mistress Mariana's Room on the Wedding Night is founded on the Story of Roberto and Isdaura in Gerardo the Unfortunate Spaniard p. 87. Bloody Duke or The Adventures for a Crown a Tragi-comedy acted at the Court of Alba Regalis by several Persons of Great Quality by the Author of the Abdicated Prince printed 4 o Lond. 1690. This Play comprises the publick Affairs from the first Discovery of the Popish-plot to the Death of King Charles the Second The Persons are as easily known as in the former C. Caesar's Revenge a Tragedy which I never saw Charles the First King of England his Tragedy printed 4o. Lond. 1649. and dedicated to King Charles the Second commended by a Copy of Verses Combat of Caps a Masque of which I can give no Account Commons Condition a Comedy which I never saw Constant Nymph or The Rambling Shepheard a Pastoral acted at the Duke's Theatre printed 4o. Lond. 1678. Costly Whore a Comical History acted by the Company of Revels printed 4o. Lond. 1633. Contention between York and Lancaster with the Death of the Good Duke Humphrey and the Banishment and Death of the Duke of
Furens 250 Oetus 496 Hero and Leander 492 Herod and Antipater 340 and Mariamne 406 Hey for Honesty 416 Hic Ubique 246 Histriomastix 532 Hoffman 533 Hog hath lost his Pearl 503 Hollander 232 Holland's Leaguer 349 Honest Lawyer 522 Man's Fortune 209 Whore 122 Honoria and Mammon 484 Honour of Wales 294 Horace 74 404 Horatius 333 How to chuse a Good Wife from a Bad. 533 Humorous Courtier 480 Days Mirth 63 Lieutenant 209 Lovers 387 Humorists 446 Humour out of Breath 119 Hyde Park 479 Hymenaei 291 Hymen's Triumph 102 Hyppolitus 409 495 I. JAck Drum's Entertainment 534 Jugler Ib. Straw's Life and Death Ib. Jacob and Esau. 534 James the Fourth Ib. Ibrahim 441 Jealous Lovers 414 Jeronymo 535 Jew of Malta 343 Jew's Tragedy 248 If this ben't a good Play the Devil 's in 't 122 Ignoramus 518 Impatient Poverty 533 Imperial Tragedy 315 Imperiale 226 Imposture 484 Indian Emperor 165 Queen 276 Ingratitude of a Common-wealth 501 Injured Lovers 378 Princess 182 Inner-Temple Masque 372 Insatiate Countess 348 Interlude of Youth 44 Jocasta 208 John the Evangel 535 K. of England 458 John and Matilda 117 Joseph 238 Joseph's Afflictions 536 Jovial Crew 36 Irish Masque 291 Iron Age. 260 Island Princess 210 Isle of Gulls 119 Juliana Princess of Poland 96 Julius Caesar. 4 458 Just General 339 Italian 108 K. KInd Keeper 164 King and no King 210 Edgar and Alfreda 420 Lear and his three Daughters 501 and Queen's Entertainment at Richmond 536 King's Entertainment at Welbeck 261 Knack to know an Honest Man 536 a Knave Ib. Knave in Grain 537 Knavery in all Trades Ibid. Knight of the Burning Pestle 210 Golden-shield 594 of Malta 210 L. LAdy Alimony 573 Contemplation 392 Errant 53 of Pleasure 480 Ladies Priviledge 233 Tryal 220 Lancash Witches 266 Landgartha 42 Late Revolution 537 Law against Lovers 108 Tricks 119 Laws of Candy 210 Nature 538 Lear's Tragedy 458 Levellers levelled 538 Liberality and Prodigality Ibid. Libertine 448 Like will to like quoth the Devil to the Collier 227 Lingua 538 Little French Lawyer 210 Locrine 458 London Chanticleers 538 Cuckolds 420 Prodigal 459 Look about you 538 Looking-glass for London 331 Lost Lady 539 Love a-la-mode Ib. Love and Honour 109 Revenge 442 War 368 Crowns the End 503 freed from Ignorance 291 in a Tub. 187 in a Wood. 515 in its Extasie 539 in the Dark 188 restored 291 sick Court 36 King 31 Tricks 480 Love's Cruelty 480 Cure 211 Dominion 201 Kingdom Ib. Labour lost 459 Labyrinth 222 Loadstone 544 Lover's Melancholy 220 Progress 221 Metamorphosis 329 Mistress 267 Pilgrimage 211 Riddle 82 Sacrifice 221 Triumph 71 291 Victory 57 Welcome 291 Loving Enemies 335 Loyal Brother 489 General 501 Lovers 339 Subject 211 Lucius Junius Brutus 323 Lucky Chance 20 Luminalia 539 Lusts Dominion 344 Lusty Juventus 508 Lyer 542 M. MAckbeth 460 Mad Couple well matcht 36 Lover 211 Madam Fickle 102 Magnetick Lady 292 Maid of Honour 356 in the Mill. 211 Maiden Queen 169 head well lost 276 Maid's Metamorphosis 329 of Moorclack 6 Revenge 481 Maid's Tragedy 212 Male-content 349 Mall 518 Mamamouchi 422 Manhood and Wisdom 539 Man of Mode 187 Newmarket 274 Man 's the Master 109 Marriage a la mode 166 Broker 524 Night 197 of Oceanus and Britannia 203 of the Arts. 271 of Wit and Science 540 Mariam 43 Marcelia 26 Marcus Tullius Cicero 540 Marius and Scilla 331 Martyr 334 Martyred Souldier 474 Mary Magdalen's Repentance 506 Q. of Scotland 8 Masque at Bretbie 68 at the L d Haddington's House 293 at Ludlow Castle 376 of Augurs 293 of Flowers 540 Masque of Grays-Inn 212 of Owls 293 of Queens Ib. of the Middle-Temple and Lincoln's Inn. 63 Masquarade du Ciel 531 Massacre at Paris 323 of Paris 344 Massianello 540 Master Anthony 28 Match at Midnight 428 me in Lond. 123 Matrimonial Trouble 392 May Day 64 Mayor of Quinborough 372 Measure for Measure 459 Medea 472 496 Menechmus 524 Merchant of Venice 459 Mercurius Britannicus 541 Mercury vindicated 294 Merry Devil of Edmonton 541 Milk-maids 517 Merry Wives of Windsor 459 Messalina 426 Metamorphosed Gypsies 293 Michaelmass Term. 373 Microcosmus 381 Midas 329 Midsummer Night's Dream 460 Mirza 11 Mizer 448 Miseries of Civil War 96 Inforced Marriage 512 Mistaken Husband 166 Mithridates 324 Mock Duellist 517 Tempest 177 Monsieur D'Olive 64 Thomas 213 Money is an Ass. 307 More Dissemblers besides Women 373 Morning Ramble 541 Mortimer's Fall 294 Mother Bomby 329 Shipton's Life and Death 504 Mucedorus 541 Much ado about nothing 460 Mulberry Garden 487 Muleasses the Turk 352 Muse of New-market 542 Muses Looking-glass 415 Mustapha 28 39 N. NAtures 3 Daughters 362 Neptune's Triumph 294 Nero's Life and Death 324 New Custom 543 Exchange 36 Inn. 299 Trick to cheat the Devil 518 Market Fair. 543 Way to pay Old Debts 357 Wonder 429 News from Plymouth 110 the World in the Moon 294 Nice Valour 213 Wanton 543 Nicomede 99 Night-walker 213 Noah's Flood 185 Noble Gentleman 231 Noble Ingratitude 333 Spanish Souldier 430 Stranger 470 No body and Some body 543 No Wit No Help like a Woman's 373 Northern Lass. 36 Northward-hoe 123 Novella 37 O. OBeron the Fairy Prince 294 Obstinate Lady 69 Octavia 395 Oedipus 167 384 Old Castle 's History 461 Couple 364 Law 357 Troop 318 Wives Tale. 544 Opportunity 481 Ordinary 53 Orestes 234 Orgula 523 Orlando Furioso 544 Ormasdes 315 Orphan 398 Osmond the Gr. Turk 47 Othello 461 Ovid. 69 P. PAllantus and Eudora 310 Pandora 315 Pan's Anniversary 294 Parliament of Bees 119 Parson's Wedding 313 Passionate Lover 48 Pastor Fido. 191 442 Patient Grissel 544 Patrick for Ireland 482 Pedlers Prophecy 545 Peleus and Thetis 278 Pericles Prince of Tyre 462 Perkin Warbeck 221 Philaster 213 Phillis of Scyros 522 Philotas 102 Philotus Scotch 545 Phoenix 373 in her flames 333 Phormio 25 273 Picture 357 Pilgrim 213 Pinder of Wakefield 545 Piso's Conspiracy Ib. Pity she 's a Whore 222 Platonick Lovers 109 Play-house to be Lett. Ibid. Play between John the Husband and Tib his Wife 255 betwixt the Pardoner and the Fryar the Curate and Neighbour Prat. Ibid. of Gentleness and Nobility Ib of Love Ib. of the Weather Ib. Plain Dealer 515 Pleasure at Kenelworth Castle 231 reconciled to Virtue 294 Plutus 292 Poetaster Ib. Politician 481 cheated 241 Pompey 405 507 Poor Man's Comf 118 Scholar 385 Pragmatical Jesuite 50 Presbyterian Lash 545 Presence 393 Prince of Prigg's Revels 522 Princess 313 of Cleves 324 Prisoners 313 Projectors 513 Promises of God manifested 545 Promus Cassandra Ib. Prophetess 214 Psyche 449 debauched 178 Publick Wooing 393 Puritan Widow 462 Q. QUeen 546 and Concubine 37 of Arragon 244 of Corinth 214 Queen 's Arcadia 103 Exchange 37 Masque of Beauty 295 of Blackness Ib. Querer per solo querer 193 R. RAging Turk 235 Ram Alley 14 Rambling Justice 230 Rampant Alderman 546 Rape of Lucrece 267 Rebellion 424 Reformation 546 Rehearsal Ib. Religious 393 Rebel 547 Renegado 358