The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Thomas Carew

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One of the Gentlemen of the Bed Chamber, and Sewer in Ordinary to King Charles I. by whose command, and the Assistance of Inigo Jones, he composed a Masque, called,

Cœlum Britannicum, 8vo. performed in the Banqueting House at White-Hall, by his said Majesty, King Charles I. and his Nobles, An. Dom. 1633. (Mr. Hen. Lawes, one of the King's Private Musick, and Gentleman of the Chappel Royal, set all the Musick to the same. This Author Published a Volume of Poems and Songs, which have been divers times (with this Masque) Reprinted, the last Edition, 1670.