The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Francis Gouldsmith

by Gerard Langbaine

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, translated by our Author in Heroick Verse. For the Plot, see the 44th, and 45th Chapter of Genesis, Philo, in the Life of Josephus, Justin, Book 36. Eusebius’s Preparation to the Gospel, &c.