And you, Dick, do my Arts with good Applaufe,
Which you have justly gained from the Stage.
By obfervation of thofe Comick Laws

Which I, your Mafter, firft did teach the Age.

Mr. Brome likewife join'd with Tho. Haywood, in a Play call'd The Lancashire Witches.

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Mr. RUBEN BOURNE.

Gentleman late of the Temple, having one
Play in Print, under the Title of,

The Contented Cuckold, or The Woman's Advocate, 1692. This Play was never reprefented on the Theatre.

Mr. HENRY BURKHEAD.

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HIS Author liv'd in the Reign of King Charles I. being then a Merchant of Bristol. He wrote one Play; call'd,

COLA's Fury, or LYRENDA's Mifery; a Tra gedy, printed 1645, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable Edward Somerfet, Lord Herbert. The Subject of this Play, is the Irish Rebellion, which broke out in the Year 1641.. This Tragedy was never acted.

Mr.

Mr. BURN AB Y,

Gentleman of the Inner Temple, whom, I am

A inform'd, had a Univerfity Education, He

has writ three Plays.

I. Love betray'd, or The agreeable Disappointment 3 3 Comedy.

II. The Modifh Husband; a Comedy, acted at the Theatre Royal, 1702.

III. The Ladies Vifiting Day; a Comedy.)

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HENRY BURNEL, Efq;

N Irish Gentleman, that liv'd in the Reign of King Charles I. who writ the following Play. LANDGARTHA; a Tragi-Comedy, acted at the New Theatre in Dublin, with very good Applause, 1641. The Author introduc'd this Play with a Pro logue fpoken by an Amazon, having a Battle-Ax in her Hand, to fecure its Succefs, in imitation of Ben. Johnson, whom he ftiles the best of English Poets. The Plot is founded on the Conqueft of Fro, King of Suevia, by Regner, King of Denmark; with the Repudiation of Landgartha, Queen to Regner. Sco Krantzius, lib. 4. c. 6. Jo. Magnus, lib. 17. c. 4, 5.0 Saxo, Gramat. lib. 9.

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Lady ELIZABETH CAREW

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HIS Lady, who liv'd in the Reign of Queen
Elizabeth, wrote one Play; call'd,

MARIAM, the Fair Queen of Jury; a Tragedy, printed 1613. The Play is well writ, confidering thofe Times; but there is another Tragedy fince written on the fame Subject, call'd Herod and Mariamne. The Plot is taken from Jofephus, lib. 14.& 15. Salian. tom. 6. A. M. 4012. &c. Torniel tom. 2.

Mr. THOMAS CAREW.

MR

R. Carew was a Courtier and Favourite of King Charles I. being Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to that Prince; he compos'd a Masque; call'd,

Calum Britannicum; perform'd by the King, the Duke of Lenox, the Earls of Devonshire, Holland, and others of the Nobility, in the Banqueting House at Whitehall, in the Year 1633. Mr. Henry Lawes fet the Musick upon this Occafion. He was a Gentleman of a great deal of Wit, but guilty of Extravagancy in his Poems (of which he publish'd a Volume, fince, feveral times reprinted) as appears by this Stanza writ to him, by Sir William D'Avenant.

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Thy Wit's chief Virtue is become its Vice;
For every Beauty thou haft rais'd so high,
That now coarfe Faces carry fuch a Price,
As muft undo a Lover that would buy.

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HIS Gentleman liv'd in the Time of both King Charles the Firft and Second; he was an old Courtier, and poffeft the Place of Groom of the Privy Chamber, and others. He publish'd Six Plays.

I. ARVIRAGUS and PHILICIA; a TragiComedy, in two Parts, acted in Black-friars, by his Majesty's Servants, 1639. This Play was fince reviv'd: with a new Prologue, writ by Mr. Dryden. For the Story fee Geof. Monmouth, lib. 4. c. 16. Pol. Vergil, lib. 2. Matth. Weft, pag. 93. Grafton, part 7.

pag. 77.

II. The Paffionate Lover, in two Parts; a Tragi-Comedy, acted before the King and Queen at Somerset house, 1655. And Dedicated to the Illuftrious Princefs Mary, Dutchefs of Richmond and Lenox.

III. The Fool would be a Favourite, or The Discreet Lover; 1657. acted by the Queen's Servants, with general Applause.

IV. OSMOND the Great Turk, or The Noble Servant; a Tragedy, acted by the Queen's Majesty's Servants, 1657. The Action of this Play, is the taking of Conftantinople, in the Year 1453. See Knolles's Turk. Hift. in the Life of Mahomet, Bandello's Novels, tom. 1. Hift. 2. Lipfii Monita, lib. 2. cap. 1. Artus le Contin. de l'Hift. des Turcs, lib. 11.

V. The Deferving Favourite; a Tragi-Comedy, acted by the King's Servants 1659. with very great Applause.

VI. HERACLIUS, Emperor of the Eaft; a Tragedy, Printed in the Year 1664. This is only a Tranflation of a French Play, writ by Monfieur Corneille, and was never acted. See Zouar, Baronius,

&c.

The Author has thefe Lines in his Prologue, as an Excufe for his Translation.

All things have proper Idioms of their own,
Their Elegance in ours is hardly fhown;
This, but a Copy, and all fuch go lefs,
Great Beauties may be alter'd by the Drefs.

And the following Distich shows his Opinion of Translations in general.

Those who Tranflate, hope but a Labourer's Praife, 'Tis fuch as can Invent, deferve the Bays.

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HIS Author was first a Player; he quitted the Stage in his Youth, and ferv'd in the Irish Wars under King William III, where he loft his Life in the Bed of Honour. He wrote a Play; call'd,

The Fortune Hunters, or Two Fools well met; a Comedy, 1689. Acted by his Majefty's Servants with great Applause.

Mr.