of Numbers us’d in his Friends Paſtoral: What Authority he may have for it, I don’t know.
William Mountford.
The Birth and Parentage of this Author I know nothing of; the firſt Figure he made was,in the part of Tall-Boy, on the Stage, for which, being taken Notice, he was advanc’d on the Theatre, till he got into the Family of the late Lord Chancellor Jefferies; from whence he return’d to the Stage, where he continued till he was kill’d in Norfolk-Buildings, London. He has publiſh’d three Plays.
Greenwich-Park, a Comedy, 4 to. 1691. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majeſties Servants, and dedicated to the Right Honourable, Algernon, Earl of Eſſex, Viſcount Malden, &c. This is a very pretty Comedy, and has been always received with general Applauſe.
The Injur’d Lovers; or, The Ambitious Father, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1688. the Dedication is to the Right Honourable, James, Earl of Arran, Son to his Grace, the Duke of Hamilton. This Play did not ſucceed as the Author wiſh’d.
The Life and Death of Dr. Fauſtus, made into a Farce, with the Humours of Harlequin and Scaramauch, as they were ſeveral times acted by Mr. Lee and Mr. Jevoa, at the Queen’s Theatre in Dorſet-Garden, newly reviv’d at the Theatre in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields.
The Succesful Strangers, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1690. Acted by their Majeſties Servants, at the Theatre Royal. Its Dedication is to the Right Honourable, Thomas (now Lord) Wharton, Comptroller of his Majeſty’s Houſhold. The Cataſtrophe from The Rival Brothers, in Scarron’s Novels. This Play ſomewhat exceeded the preceding one.
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Thomas Nabbs.
He was accounted a Third Rate Poet, who liv’d in King Charles the Firſt’s Time, there is publiſhed of his Writings, Eight Dramatick Pieces, which follow in Alphabetical Order:
The Bride, called, a pleaſant Comedy, 4 to. 1646. Acted firſt, Two Years before, at the Private Houſe in Drury-Lane, by their
