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.
Alexander Nevile.
A Young Gentleman, that at ſixteen undertook to tranſlate the Oedipus of Seneca, and liv’d in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Oedipus, a Tragedy, 4 to. printed 1581. but was Engliſhed by him about twenty Years before, and is dedicated to Dr. Wotton, then one of the Queen’s Majeſty’s Privy Council.
Robert Nevile.
A Fellow of King’s-College, Cambridge, in King Charles the Firſt’s Time, and writ a Play, entituled,
The Poor Scholar, a Comedy, 4 to. 1662. written divers Years before printed, but I do not find it was ever acted, tho’ recommended by ſome Copies of Verſes by three other Poets of that Time.
William, Duke of Newcaſtle.
Mr. Langbain has always, a good Word for Quality, he can ſee no Blemiſh in that Perſon that has a Title, tho’ he be ſo ſharp ſighted in all thoſe of a lower Station; and he is ſo tranſported on this worthy Nobleman, that he baulks the Curioſity of his Reader, for ſome Account of his Life, to vent a clumſey Flattery. He was of the Illuſtrious and Ancient Family of Cavendiſh, a zealous Follower of the Royal Cauſe, and with it exil’d; during his Aboad at Antwerp, he writ a Book of Horſemanſhip. He was an Encourager of Poetry, and a Poet himſelf. You may find his Life at large, written by his Dutcheſs. We have four Comedies of his in Print; as
The Country Captain, a Comedy, 8 vo. 1649. It was acted at the Black-Fryars, by his Majeſty’s Servants, with good Applauſe; and uſually bound up with another of his, called, The Variety.
The Humorous Lovers, a Comedy, 4 to. 1677. Acted by his Royal Highneſs the Duke of York’s Servants, with great Applauſe.
