The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Peter Hausted

Peter Hausted.

He was born at Oundle, in Northamptonshire, proceeded to Master of Arts, in Queens-College, Cambridge, in the Reign of Charles the First; he was impatient of Censure, as well as his admired Ben. and writ a Play, called,

The Rival Friends, a Comedy, 4 to. 1632. Acted before the King and Queen at Cambridge. The Scene betwixt Love-all and Hamershin, Act 3. Scene 7, from that betwixt True-wit, Daw, and La Fool, in Ben.’s Silent Woman.