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Viſion of Delight, a Maſque, Fol. 1692. This was alſo preſented at Court in Chriſtmas, 1617.

Vulpone, or, The Fox, a Comedy, Fol. 1692. Acted by the King’s Majeſty’s Servants. This is writ in Imitation of the Comedies of the Ancients.

The before mentioned Plays, and other Poems, &c. were formerly printed together in Two Volumes, Fol. 1640. and 1641. but Three other Plays which are there omitted, are hereunder mentioned, and may be found in the late Edition, printed 1692.

The Caſe is Altered, a Comedy, 4 to. 1609, and fol. 1692. This was ſundry times Acted by the Children of the Black Fryars. See Plautus’s Comed., &c.

The Widow, a Comedy, 4 to. 1652. and fol. 1692. Acted at the Private Houſe in Black Fryars, by his late Majeſty’s Servants, with good Applauſe. Fletcher and Middleton joyn’d with the above Author in this Play, which has been reviv’d ſince the Reſtauration, at the King’s House, with a new Prologue and Epilogue.[1]

The New-Inn, or, The Light Heart, a Comedy, 8 vo. 1631. This (ſays our Author’s Title) was never Acted, but moſt negligently play’d, by ſome of the King’s Servants, and more ſqueamiſhly beheld, and cenſured by others, the King’s Subjects, 1629. Now at laſt ſet at Liberty to the Readers, his Majeſty’s Servants and Subjects, to be judged.

Theſe laſt, with all the beforegoing Plays, Maſques, and Entertainments, with an Engliſh Grammar, are now publiſhed together in one large Volume, fol. 1692.

John Jones.

He writ, in the Time of King Charles the Firſt, One Play, call’d,

Adraſta, or, The Woman’s Spleen and Loves Conqueſt, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1635. Part of it from Boccace’s Novels, Day 8. Nov. 8.

Thomas Jordan.

A Player and Poet of King Charles the Firſt his Reign, who writ and publiſhed One Maſque and Two Comedies; viz.

Fancies Feſtivals, a Maſque, 4 to. 1657.

Money’s an Aß, a Comedy, 4 to. 1668.

The Walks of Iſlington and Hogsdon, with the Humours of Wood-ſtreet-Compter; a Comedy, 4 to. 1657. This Play had good Succeſs, it being Acted Nineteen Days ſucceſſively.


  1. London Drollery, pag. 11. 12.
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