cated to the truly Noble John, Earl of Peterborough, Lord Mordant, Baron of Turney.
The Suns Darling; a Mask, 4 to. 1657. Preſented by their Majeſties Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, and Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Southampton. This Play was not wholly written by this Author, but Decker join’d with him therein.
Thomas Ford.
This Author liv’d in the Reign of King Charles I. and has writ one Play, call’d,
Loves Labyrinth; or, The Royal Shepherdeß, a Tragi-Comedy, 8 vo. 1660. Part of it taken from Gomerſal’s Tragedy of Sforza, Duke of Millain, and is bound up with his other Works in 8 vo. 1661.
John Fountain.
A Devonſhire Gentleman who liv’d in the Reign of K. Charles II. and writ one Play, call'd,
The Reward of Virtue; a Comedy, 4 to. 1661, never Acted whilſt the Author liv’d, but after his Death Mr. Shadwell Reviv’d and Alter’d it; and then under another Title, (viz.) The Royal Shepherdeß, it was Acted with Applauſe.
Abraham Fraunce.
This Poet liv’d in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; in a Book writby him, call’d, The Counteſs of Pembroke’s Ivy-Church, is one Dramatick Paſtoral, entituled,
Amintas Paſtoral; 4 to. 1591. writ in Hexameters, and is a Tranſlation of Taſſo’s.
Sir Ralph Freeman.
THis Gentleman after the Martyrdom of K. Charles I. writ one Play, call’d,
Imperiale; a Tragedy, 4 to. 1655. and Dedicated to John Morris, Eſq; For the Plot conſult Pontanus, Rudæus’s Treaſury of Ancient and Modern Times, Beard’s Theatre of God’s Judgments part 2. Page 45. Wanley’s Hiſtory of Man, Book 4. Chap. 2. Goulart
