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Raging Turk; or, Bajazet the Second; a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1656. which was likewiſe Acted by the Students of Chriſt-Church, Oxon. For the Plot conſult the ſame Turkiſh Hiſtories before mentioned.

Solimus Emperor of the Turks, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1638. For the Plot conſult alſo the Turkiſh Hiſtorians, as Paul. Jovius, Mezeray, &c. in the Reign of Solimus the Firſt.

Three of theſe five Plays mentioned to be Acted at Oxon, are Printed together in one Volume 8 vo.

Robert Gomerſal.

THis Author, like the laſt, a Divine, born 1602. at London, at Fourteen was entred at Chriſt-Church in Oxon, and choſen Student of that Royal Foundation, paſt through his ſeveral Degrees to Batchelor of Divinity, and dy’d 1646. He writ one Play by the Name of,

Lodovick Sforza, Duke of Millain, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1632. For the Story ſee Guiccardine, lib. 1, 2. &c. Mezeray and Philip de Comines in the Reign of Ch. VIII. This Author has writ ſeveral Poems, ſome of them Divine, which are Printed with this Play in 8 vo. Alſo ſome Sermons Printed 4 to. 1663.

Robert Gould.

A Gentleman now living, formerly a Domeſtick of the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Dorſet and Middleſex; and ſince teaches School in the Country. He has given us One Play, called,

The Rival Siſters, or the Violence of Love, a Tragedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majeſty’s Servants 4 to. 1696. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable, James, Earl of Abingdon, &c. This Play was well received, tho’ delay’d for ſometime the Acting, as the Author complains in his Epiſtle. The Plot is almoſt entirely taken out of Shirly’s Maids Revenge, tho’ he has left out the Characters of Signior Sharkino, a ſharking Doctor, and his Man Scarabeo; the Story is taken originally out of Reynolds’s God’s Revenge againſt Murder, Book 2. Hist. 7.

Francis Gouldſmith, Eſq;

I Can only ſay, this Author liv’d in Charles the Firſt’s time, and writ a Play, called,

Sophompaneos, or the Hiſtory of Joſeph, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1640. with Annotations, this Divine Dramma was writ in Latin by Hugo

Grotius,