Dr. Robert Wild.
THis Author, tho’ a Presbyterian Doctor, writ one Play and divers Poems, but is moſt famous for his Iter Boreale. The Play is intituled,
The Benefice, a Comedy, 4 to. 1689. The Deſign taken from another Play, call’d, The Return from Parnaſſus; or, A Scourge for Simony.
Leonard Willan.
The Author of a Play, publiſh’d one Paſtoral in Verſe, call’d,
Aſtræa; or, True Love’s Mirrour; a Paſtoral, 8 vo. 1651. It is dedicated to the Illuſtrious Princess, Mary, Dutcheſs of Richmond and Lenox. Plot from a Romance ſo called.
He liv’d in the Reign of King Charles the Firſt, and writ (beſides one he join’d with Day and Rowley in) a Play, call’d,
The Miſeries of Inforced Marriage, a Tragi-comedy, 4 to. 1637. Mrs. Behn took her Plot and great part of the Language of this Play, to her Town Fop; or, Sir Timothy Tawdry. The other Play he join’d in, is called, The Travels of Three Engliſh Brothers.
Robert Wilmot.
A Poet of Queen Elizabeth’s Reign, and at the Requeſt of the Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple, writ,
Tancred and Griſmond, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1592. acted before her Majeſty by the Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple; and dedicated it to the Right Worſhipful and Vertuous Ladies, the Lady Mary Peter, and the Lady Ann Grey. Plot, Nov. 1. Day 4. of Boccace’s Novels.
John Wilſon.
An Author of the Place of whoſe Birth I am ignorant; he was once Recorder of Londonderry, and ſometime reſided in Dublin, where he writ Belphegor, which was afterwards acted in London.
