The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Henry Higden
Henry Higden, Esq;
I Know not whether this Gentleman be yet living or not; but he was a Barrister of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple: A Person known to all the conversable part of the Town, for his Pleasant and Facetious Company; and allow’d to be a Man of Wit, tho’ it were to be wish’d he had not Publish’d his Play of
The wary Widdow, or, Sir Noisy Parrat, a Comedy, 4 to. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by their Majesties Servants, 1693. and Dedicated to the Right Honourable, Charles, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, &c. The ill Success of this Play, the Author gives us in the Preface, which complains of the ungenerous Usage the Bear-garden Criticks gave it with Catcalls, &c. which, how short soever it may be of what might be expected from so celebrated a Wit, as Mr. Higden was esteemed, it could never deserve; since Sir Charles Sidley could think it worthy a Prologue of his making. ’Tis usher’d into the World by Five Copies of English Verse, and One of Latin.