The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Corey
A Gentleman that has set together a Play, called:
The Generous Enemies, or The Ridiculous Lovers, a Comedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal, 4to. 1672. This Play is patch'd up out of four several Poets: The chief Design is borrowed from Quinault's La Genereuse Ingratitude; that of the Ridiculous Lovers from Corneille's D. Bertram de Cigarral, which is also founded on the Spanish Play, Entre bobos anda el juego; Bertran's Testy Humour is partly borrowed from Randolph's Muses Looking-Glass, Act 2. Scene I. and Act 3. Scene 3, and 4. and the Quarrel betwixt him and Robatzi, Act 5. wholly stollen from Love's Pilgrimage, Act 2. Scene I. Act 3. Scene 3.