The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Robert Gomersal

by Gerard Langbaine

Robert Gomersal.

THis Author, like the last, a Divine, born 1602. at London, at Fourteen was entred at Christ-Church in Oxon, and chosen Student of that Royal Foundation, past through his several Degrees to Batchelor of Divinity, and dy’d 1646. He writ one Play by the Name of,

Lodovick Sforza, Duke of Millain, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1632. For the Story see Guiccardine, lib. 1, 2. &c. Mezeray and Philip de Comines in the Reign of Ch. VIII. This Author has writ several Poems, some of them Divine, which are Printed with this Play in 8 vo. Also some Sermons Printed 4 to. 1663.