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As you like it, a Comedy, Fol.

The Birth of Merlin; or, The Child has loſt his Father, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1662, Mr. Rowley join’d with our Author in this Play. Plot, Ethelword, G. Monmouth, Bede, Polidor, Virgil, Stow, Speed, &c.

A Comedy of Errors, a Comedy, fol. The Ground from Plautus, Amphitruo, and Mænechmi.

Coriolanus, a Tragedy, fol. Plot from Plutarch’s Life of Coriolanus, from Livy’s Hiſtory, Dioniſius Hallicarnaſſæus, &c.

Cromwell, (Thomas, Lord) his Life and Death, a History, fol. and 4 to. Plot from Fox’s Martyrology, Fuller’s Church Hiſt., Dr. Burnet’s Hiſt. Reformation, Wanly’s Hiſt. of Man., Hacwell’s Apology, and Lloyd’s Engliſh Worthies.

Cymbeline, his Tragedy; fol. Mr. Durfey’s Injured Princeſs; or, The Fatal Wager, is only this Play reviv’d. The Plot from Boccace’s Novels, Day 2. Nov. 9.

Henry the Fourth, Two Parts, Hiſtory, fol. the firſt Part containing the Life of Henry Percy, ſirnamed Hotſpur; and the comical part the Character of Sir John Falſtaff, which has been play’d by the late famous Mr. Lacey, to Admiration. In the ſecond part you have an Act of the Death of this King, and the Coronation of his Succeſſor. See Geoffry of Monmouth, Caxton, Harding, Hall, Grafton, Martin, Hollingſhead, Stow, and other our Engliſh Chronicles.

Henry the Fifth, his Life; History, fol. A Comical part is mixt with the Hiſtorical, and contains the Reign of this King, to his Marriage with Katharine of France. See the afore-ſaid Engliſh Chronicles.

Henry the Sixth, Three Parts, Hiſtory, fol. In the Second is the Death of the good Duke Humphrey, in the Third the Death of the Duke of York; all the Parts contain the whole Reign of this King. See the ſame Engliſh Chronicles.

Henry the Eighth, his Life; Hiſtory, fol. The part of King Henry was often in King Charles the Second’s Time extraordinary well acted by Mr. Betterton. See our Engliſh Chronicles before-mentioned.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; a Tragedy, fol. and 4 to. For the Plot see Saxo-Grammaticus, Crantzius, Pontanus, Idacius, &c.

John, King of England; Hiſtory, fol. for the Plot see our Engliſh Chronicles.

John, King of England, his troubleſom Reign, in two parts, Hiſtory, 4 to. 1611. with the Diſcovery of King Richard Cæur de Lyons, Baſe Son (as vulgarly called) Fawcombridge; alſo the Death of the ſaid King John at Swinſtead Abby. Theſe Plays were ſeveral times acted by the Queen’s Majeſty’s Players, tho’ not divided into Acts, and differ much from the other Play in Folio.

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