The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Dr. Robert Wild

by Gerard Langbaine

Dr. Robert Wild.

THis Author, tho’ a Presbyterian Doctor, writ one Play and divers Poems, but is most famous for his Iter Boreale. The Play is intituled,

The Benefice, a Comedy, 4 to. 1689. The Design taken from another Play, call’d, The Return from Parnassus; or, A Scourge for Simony.