Sophonisba, her Tragedy; or, The Wonder of Women, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1633. Plot from Sir Walter Raliegh, Polibius, Appian, Livy’s Hiſt. &c.
What you will, a Comedy, 8 vo. 1633. Copied from Plautus Amphitrio. Mr. Phillips and Mr. Winſtanly have made him Author of another Play, called, the Faithful Shepherd, but his Name not being thereto, nor he ever owning it, I conclude, with Mr. Langbain, that ’tis none of his.
John Maſon.
THis Poet was Maſter of Arts in King James the Firſt’s Time, and writ one Play call’d,
Muleaſſes, the Turk; a Tragedy, 4 to. 1610. Acted by the Children of his Majeſty’s Revels. This Author, in his Title Page, calls it, A Worthy Tragedy, and had a great Conceit of its meeting with Succeſs, adding in the Front, this Sentence of Horace,
- Sume Superbiam quæſitam meritis.
Philip Maſſenger.
A Poet who was born at Salisbury in the Reign of Charles the Firſt, his Father liv’d and dy’d in the Service of the then Earl of Montgomery, and ſent his Son, our Poet, to St. Alban-Hall, in Oxon, where he remain’d a Student for three or four Years. He was intimate with Rowley, Middleton, Field, Decker, and even Fletcher. He left this World in March, 1669. and on the ſeventeenth Day of that Month, was buried in St. Mary Overies-Church in Southwark, in the Grave where Mr. Fletcher had been before buried. In Sir Aſton Cockain’s Epigrams you may find an Epitaph on him, Book 1. Ep. 100. He writ fourteen Plays intire, and joined with Middleton and Rowley in ſome others; of which in their Order:
The Baſhful Lover, a Comedy, 8 vo. 1655. Acted at the private Houſe in Black-Fryars, by his Majeſty’s Servants, with good Applauſe.
The Bondman, a Comedy, 4 to. 1638. Acted at the Cock-Pit in Drury-Lane, by the moſt excellent Princeſs, the Lady Elizabeth, her Servants: Dedicated to the Right Honourable, Philip, Earl of Montgomery. The reducing the Slaves by the Sight of the Whips, is taken from the Story of the Scythian Slaves.
The City Madam, a Comedy, 4 to. 1659. Acted at the Private Houſe in Black-fryars, with great Applauſe, and Dedicated to the
