he enjoy
the Benefit of his Restoration, having given him a Place of great Honor
and Profit, with which he lived in Credit and Reputation all the days
of his Life.

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_Sir ROBERT HOWARD_.

Sir _Robert Howard_, of the Noble Family of the Earls of _Berk-shire_,
a Name so reverenced, as it had Six Earls at one time of that Name.
This Noble Person to his other Abilities, which Capacitated him for a
Principal Office in his Majesties Exchequer; attained to a considerable
Fame by his Poetical Works: Especially for what he hath written to the
Stage, _viz_. The _Blind Lady_; _The Committee_; and _The Surprizal_,
Comedies; The _Great Favorite_, and _The Vestal Virgin_, Tragedies;
_Inforc'd Marriage_, a Tragi-Comedy, and _The Indian Queen_ a Dramatick
History.

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_WILLIAM CAVENDISH_
Duke of _New-Castle_

This Honourable Person, for his eminent Services to his Prince and
Country, preferred from Earl to Duke of _New-Castle_; was a Person
equally addicted both to Arms and Arts, which will eternize his Name to
all Posterity, so long as Learning, Loyalty, and Valour shall be in
Fashion. He wrote a splendid Treatise of the Art of Horsemanship, in
which his Experience was no less than his Delight; as also two
Comedies, _The Variety_, and the _Country Captain_. Nor was his
Dutchess no less busied in those ravishing Delights of Poetry, leaving
to Posterity in Print three ample Volumes of Her studious Endeavors;
one of Orations, the second of Philosophical Notions and Discourses,
and the third of Dramatick and other kinds of Poetry, of which five
Comedies, _viz._ _The Bridalls_; _Blazing World_; _Covent of Pleasure_;
_the Presence_; and _The Sociable Companions, or Female Wits_.

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Sir _WILLIAM KILLIGREW_.

Sir _William Killigrew_ was one whose Wings of Fancy displayed as high
Invention, as most of the Sons of _Phoebus_ of his time; contributing
to the Stage five Playes, _viz._ _Ormardes_, _The Princess, or Love
at first sight_; _Selindra_, and _The Seige_ of _Urbin_,
Tragi-Comedies; and a Comedy called _Pandora_. To whom we may joyn Mr.
_Thomas Killigrew_, who also wrote five Plays, _viz._ _The Parsons
Wedding_; and _Thomaso, or the Wanderer_, Comedies; the _Pilgrim_ a
Tragedy; and _Clarasilla_, and _The Prisoners_, Tragi-Comedies.

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