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Publick Wooing, a Comedy, fol. 1662. Two Scenes and two Songs at the End of this Play, with divers Speeches therein, are writ by his Grace, the Duke of Newcaſtle.

Religions, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. 1662.

Several Wits, a Comedy, Fol. 1662.

The Sociable Companions; or, The Female Wits, a Comedy, fol. 1668.

The Unnatural Tragedy, fol. 1662. The Prologue and Epilogue of this Play, were writ by his Grace, the Duke of Newcaſtle.

Wits Cabal, in two Parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. The Epilogue of the firſt Part was alſo writ by his Grace, the Duke of Newcaſtle.

Youth’s Glory, and Death’s Banquet, in two Parts, a Tragedy, fol. 1662. Two Scenes, and the Speeches of the firſt Part, as alſo the Songs and Verſes in the ſecond Part, were alſo writ by his Grace, the Duke of Newcaſtle.

Beſides theſe Dramatick works, ſhe has writ divers other Pieces; as, The Life of the Duke of New-Caſtle, 1667. also the ſame in Latin, 1668. Philoſophical Fancies, 1653. A Volume of Poems, 1653. Philoſophical Opinions, 1655. Nature’s Picture, drawn by Fancies Pencil, to the Life; at the End of which was her own Life, 1656. A Volume of Orations, 1662. Philoſophical Letters, 1664. Two hundred and eleven Sociable Letters, 1664. All which Volumes are printed in fol.

Thomas Newton.

One of the Tranſlators of Seneca, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, he tranſlated one entirely, and club’d with Jaſper Heywood and Alexander Nevile in the reſt; but publiſh’d them all together, with a Dedication to Sir Thomas Henage, then Treaſurer of her Majeſty‘’s Chamber. Philips, in his Theatrum Poetarum, aſcribes one other Play to this Author, call’d, Tamberlain the Great, which is none of his, but Marlo’s.

Thebais, a Tragedy, 4 to. Tranſlated from Seneca, as before intimated, it has no Chorus, and is the ſhorteſt of all that Author’s Tragedies.

Thomas Norton, and Tho. Sackvile.

THese Twin Authors liv’d in Queen Elizabeth’s Reign, the latter was Lord Buckhurſt, and 1 Jac. created Earl of Dorſet, Mar. 13. 1603.

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