The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Samuel Brandon

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He Liv'd in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and writ this Play towards the latter part of her time, call'd,

The Virtuous Octavia, T.C. 8vo. 1598. and tho' this Play was never Acted, yet the Author had a very good Opinion of it; and his Epistles Printed with it, Compos'd in imitation of Ovid's. Plot from Plutarch's Life of M. Antony. See also the Life of Augustus in Suetonius. Dion. Cassius, &c.