Lady ELIZABETH CAREW.

HIS Lady, who liv'd in the Reign of Queen
Elizabeth, wrote one Play; call'd,

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MARIAM, the Fair Queen of Jury; a Tragedy, printed 1613. The Play is well writ, confidering thofe Times; but there is another Tragedy fince written on the fame Subject, call'd Herod and Mariamne. The Plot is taken from Jofephus, lib. 14. & 15. Salian. tom. 6. A. M. 4012. &c. Torniel tom. 2.

Mr. THOMAS CAREW.

MR

R. Carew was a Courtier and Favourite of King Charles I. being Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to that Prince; he compos'd a Masque; call'd,

Calum Britannicum; perform'd by the King, the Duke of Lenox, the Earls of Devonshire, Holland, and others of the Nobility, in the Banqueting House at Whitehall, in the Year 1633. Mr. Henry Lawes fet the Musick upon this Occafion. He was a Gentleman of a great deal of Wit, but guilty of Extravagancy in his Poems (of which he publifh'd a Volume, fince, feveral times reprinted) as appears by this Stanza writ to him, by Sir William D'Avenant.

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THIS Gentleman liv'd in the Time of both

King Charles the First and Second; he was an old Courtier, and poffeft the Place of Groom of the Privy Chamber, and others. He publifh'd Six Plays.

LARVIRAGUS and PHILICIA; a TragiComedy, in two Parts, acted in Black-friars, by his Majefty's Servants, 1639. This Play was fince reviv'd: with a new Prologue, writ by Mr. Dryden. For the Story see Geof. Monmouth, lib. 4. c. 16. Pol. Vergil, lib. 2. Matth. Weft, pag. 93. Grafton, part 7. pag. 77.

II. The Paffionate Lover, in two Parts; a Tragi-Comedy, acted before the King and Queen at Somerfethoufe, 1655. And Dedicated to the Illuftrious Princefs Mary, Dutchefs of Richmond and Lenox.

III. The Fool would be a Favourite, or The Difcreet Lover; 1657. acted by the Queen's Servants, with general Applause.

IV. OSMOND the Great Turk, or The Noble Servant; a Tragedy, acted by the Queen's Majefty's Servants, 1657. The Action of this Play, is the taking of Conftantinople, in the Year 1453. See Knolless Turk. Hift. in the Life of Mahomet, Bandello's Novels, tom. 1. Hift. 2. Lipfii Monita, lib. 2. cap. 1. Artus le Contin. de l'Hift. des Turcs, lib. 11.

V. The Deferving Favourite; a Tragi-Comedy, acted by the King's Servants 1659. with very great Applause.

VI. HERACLIUS, Emperor of the Eaft; a Tragedy, Printed in the Year 1664. This is only a Tranflation of a French Play, writ by Monfieur Corneille, and was never acted. See Zouar, Baronius,

&c.

The Author has thefe Lines in his Prologue, as an Excufe for his Tranflation.

All things have proper Idioms of their own,
Their Elegance in ours is hardly fhown;
This, but a Copy, and all fuch go lefs,
Great Beauties may be alter'd by the Drefs.

And the following Distich shows his Opinion of Translations in general.

Those who Tranflate, hope but a Labourer's Praife, 'Tis fuch as can Invent, deferve the Bays.

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Mr. JAMES CARLILE.

HIS Author was firft a Player; he quitted the Stage in his Youth, and ferv'd in the Irish Wars under King William III, where he loft his Life in the Bed of Honour. He wrote a Play; call'd,

The Fortune Hunters, or Two Fools well met; 2 Comedy, 1689. Acted by his Majesty's Servants with great Applause.

Mr.

Mr. RICHARD CARPENTER.

AN Author that liv'd in the latter end of the Reign of King James I. He wrote one Play; call'd,

The Pragmatical Jefuit new Leaven'd; a Play tending to Morality and Virtue; the Author was fuppos'd to be a Divine.

Mr. GEORGE CARTWRIGHT.

THIS Gentleman liv'd at Fulham, and oblig'd the World with one Play; call'd,

Heroick Love, or The Infanta of Spain; a Tragedy, printed 1661, and Dedicated to King Charles II.

Mr. WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT. A Gentleman, eminent for Learning and Loyalty ; brought up a King's Scholar at Eton, under Dr. Olbafton, and chofe Student of Chrift-church College in Oxon, where he took his Degrees of Batchelor and Master of Arts: In the Year 1643, he was chofen Proctor, and admitted by the Univerfity in April, but died the Winter following, lamented by all that knew him. He was an excellent Orator, and an admirable Poet, which Cicero, with all his Pains, could never attain to. He was expert in the Latin, Greek, French and Italian Languages; was extreme modeft in his Behaviour, and beautiful in his Perfon; was beloved of Majefty;

and

and admir'd not only by his Acquaintance, bat Strangers. Ben. Johnfon call'd him his Son: And Bishop Fell gives him the highest Praise, in saying, He was the utmoft that Man could come to. He writ four Plays.

I. The Siege, or Love's Convert, a Tragi-Comedy, 1651. Dedicated to King Charles I. The Story of Mifander and Leucatia, is founded on that of Paufanias and Cleonice, in Plutarch's Life of Cymon; and other Parts from Boccace's Novels.

II. The Royal Slave; a Tragi-Comedy, perform'd by the Students of Chrift-church College, Oxon. 1651. Dr. Busby, late Schoolmafter of Westminster, acted a chief Part, approving himself a fecond Rofcius; for he, with the reft of his Fellow-ftudents, exceeded the Performance of the Players at Hampton-Court. This Play, by the Nobleness of the Stile, and Excellency of the Songs, with the fine Scenes, and admirable Performance, was esteem'd the best that had been reprefented in the last Age.

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III. The Ordinary; a Comedy, 1657. Firft A&t of this Play, is inferted as a Love Dialogue, in a Book call'd Wit's Interpreter. p. 81.

IV. The Lady Errant, a Tragi-Comedy, 1657. This was esteem'd a good Play.

These Plays are printed with his Poems in 8vo. where most of the Wits of the University appear with Copies of Verfes, to fhew the great Efteem they had for the Author.

Mrs. SUSANNA CENT LIVRE.

THIS Gentlewoman, now living, is Daughter of one Mr. Freeman, late of Holbeach, in Lincolnfhire, who married a Daughter of Mr. Marham, a

Gentle