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NEglected Vertue; or, The Unhappy Conqueror; a Play acted at the Theatre Royal, by his Majesty's Servants, 1696. 4to. and dedicated by Mr. Horden the Player, to the Honourable, Sir John Smith, Baronet, &c. in which he lets his Patron know its ill Success, and that it's none of his own, and in that he's much in the Right, for all the Comical Part is taken out of Fletcher.

Nero's Tragedy, 4to. writ many Years since; another bearing the like Title, was writ and publish'd by Mr. Lee. Plot or Hist. from Suetonius in vita Neronis, Aurelius Victor, Sulvitius Severus, and Tacitus Annal.

A New Custom, an Interlude, 4to. 1573. It contains but three Acts, and may be acted by four Persons. This being writ in Queen Elizabeth's Time, was purposely to vindicate the Reformation.

New-market-Fair, the First Part, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to.

New-market-Fair; or, Mrs. Parliament's New Figaries; the Second Part, a Tragi-Comedy, 4to. 1649. and the Title tells you, writ by the Man in the Moon, and printed at You may go look. The Intent of these Two Plays are to expose the Rebels against King Charles the First.

The Nice Wanton, a Comedy.

No Body, and Some Body; with the true Chronicle History of Elydure, who was fortunately three times Crown'd King of England, 4 to. acted by the Queen's Majesty's Servants. It is not divided into Acts. For the true Story consult our English Chronicles.

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An Old Wives Tale.

Orlando Furioso, One of the Twelve Peers of France; a Hist. 4to. 1594. acted before the Queen's Majesty. It is not divided into Acts: Translated by Sir John Harrington from Ariosto's Poem so called.

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PAstor Fido; or, The Faithful Shepherd; a Pastoral, 4to. 1602. written in Italian by Guarini, and afterwards translated into English by this Author, who conceals his Name; but (if we believe the Bookseller who printed it after his Decease, was a Relation to Sir Edward Dimock, then Queen Elizabeth's Champion. Sir

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