The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Thomas Nash

by Gerard Langbaine

Thomas Nash.

A Contemporary with the former, tho’ of a more eminent Character; he was bred at Cambridge, and writ two Plays, called,

Dido, Queen of Carthage, a Tragedy, 4 to. This was not wholly writ by him, for Marlow did somewhat assist therein. The Story from Virgil’s Æneids, lib. 1, & 4.

Summers Last Will and Testament, a Comedy, 4 to. This Author has writ divers other small Pieces, both in Verse and Prose; but not that Play of See me, and see me not, as alledged by Mr. Philips and Winstanley.