a Maſque, is little more than Speeches ſpoke, as now in these Days, to the Lord Mayors, in Pageants, &c.
Women, beware Women, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1657. See Hippolito and Iſabella, a Romance, 8 vo. This is uſually bound with two others of his before-mentioned, 8 vo.
The World toſs’d at Tennis, a Maſque, 4 to. 1620. ſaid to be divers times acted to the Contentment of many Noble and Worthy Spectators, by the Prince’s Servants. The Dedication is to the truly Noble, Charles, then Lord Howard, Baron of Effingham; and to his Vertuous and Worthy Wife, the Right Honourable, Mary, then Lady Effingham, the Eldeſt Daughter of Sir William Cockain, Knight, then Lord Mayor of London, &c.
Your Five Gallants, a Comedy, 4 to. Acted at the Black-Fryars. A Play printed without any Date, and in all probability, the firſt he ever writ.
John Milton.
An Author of that Excellence of Genius and Learning, that none of any Age or Nation, I think, has excel’d him: during the Civil Wars, and after the Death of King Charles the Firſt, he was advanced to conſiderable Poſts in the Government, as Under Secretary of State, &c. and he was a ſtrenuous Defender of the Power and Liberty of the People, upon which that Government immediately ſtood. His Controverſy with Salmatius was very famous all over Europe, and his Victory coſt his Adverſary his Life, tho’ he himſelf loſt his Eyes. I have been told, that after the Reſtauration of King Charles the Second, he taught School at, or near, Greenwich. The Time or Place of his Birth, Education, or Death, I am ignorant of. He writ two Dramatick Pieces, viz.
Samſon Agoniſtes, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1680. Mr. Dryden Sen. has, in his Aureng-zebe, borrowed ſome Thoughts from this Poem, which is founded on Scripture. Conſult the Thirteenth Chapter of Judges, &c. alſo Tornier, Salian, and Joſeph. Antiq. lib. 5.
A Maſque presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634. Printed 4 to. 1687. It was publiſhed by Mr. Laws, who compos’d the Muſick, dedicating it to the Right Honourable, John, Lord Viſcount Brackley, Son and Heir Apparent to John, Earl of Bridgewater, Viſcount Brackley, Lord Preſident of Wales, and one of his Majeſty’s most Honourable Privy Council; before whom it was preſented. He writ beſides, divers Pieces in Poetry and Hiſtory, as Paradiſe Loſt, 8 vo. and Fol. with Sculptures; Paradiſe Regain’d, 8 vo. Hiſt. of Britain, 4 to. Pro populo Anglicano defenſio, 12 mo. The Doctrine and Diſcipline of Divorce, 4 to. &c.
