The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Mr. Fishbourn

by Gerard Langbaine

Mr. Fishbourn.

A Gentleman who writ an unlicensed Play without his Name, call'd,

Sodom; before this Play are put the two Letters E. R., the Printer having a mind to have it pass for one of the Works of the late Earl of Rochester, as it had been formerly imputed to him, and which he denies and detests in a Copy of Verses made on purpose against the Author of it, who was, as I'm very well assured, one Mr. Fishbourn, an Inns of Court Gentleman; nor indeed has it any of my Lord Rochester's Wit to make amends for the abominable filth of the Obscenity which must nauseate every Reader of any tolerable Judgment.