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Thomas Lodge.

This Author we find was a Doctor of Phyſick, in the Time of Queen Elizabeth, who, during his Study at Cambridge, writ ſeveral pieces of Poetry; among the reſt, Two Plays.

A Looking-Glaß for London and England, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1598. One Green joined with our Author towards compleating this Play, which is founded on the Story of Jonas and the Ninevites, in the Holy Scripture.

The Wounds of Civil War; or, The Tragedies of Marius and Scylla. Plot from Plutarch in vit. Mar. & Silla; ſee alſo Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, Vell. Paterculus, Saluſtius, and T. Livius.

Sir William Lower.

A Cavalier that left theſe Nations during the Civil Wars, and, in Holland, gave himſelf the Diverſion of Poetry; among the rest, ſix Plays.

The Amorous Phantaſm, a Tragi-Comedy, 12 mo. printed at the Hague, 1658. tranſlated from Quinault’s Le Fantome Amoreux.

The Inchanted Lovers, a Paſtoral, 12 mo. printed alſo at the Hague, 1658.

Horatius, a Roman Tragedy, 4 to. 1656. tranſlated from Corneille; consult Dion. Hallicarnaſceus, Caſſiodorus, T. Livius, and L. Florus.

The Martyr; or, Polyeucte, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1655. For the Story, ſee Cœffeteau Hiſt. Rom. Surius. de Vitis Sanctorum, &c.

Noble Ingratitude, a Paſtoral Tragi-Comedy, 12 mo. London, 1658. tranſlated from the French of Monſieur Quinault.

Phænix in her Flames, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1639. This was the firſt the Author writ, and publiſhed before he was a Knight.

Thomas Lupon.

All I know of him is, That ’tis ſaid he writ this one Play, called,

All for Money, a Tragedy, 4 to.


M. Lewis