could get;
Threescore sweet babes he fashion'd at a lump,
For he was christen'd in Parnassus pump;
The Muses gossip to Aurora's bed,
And ever since that time, his face was red.

We have no account how much our author was distinguished as an actor,
and it may be reasonably conjectured that he did not shine in that
light; if he had, his biographers would scarce have omitted so
singular a circumstance, besides he seems to have addicted himself
too much to poetry, to study the art of playing, which they who are
votaries of the muses, or are favoured by them, seldom think worth
their while, and is indeed beneath their genius.

The following is a particular account of our author's plays now
extant:

1. Robert Earl of Huntingdon's downfall, an historical Play, 1601,
acted by the Earl of Nottingham's servants.

2. Robert Earl of Huntingdon's Death; or Robin Hood of Merry Sherwood,
with the tragedy of chaste Matilda, 1601. The plots of these two
plays, are taken from Stow, Speed, and Baker's chronicles in the reign
of King Richard I.

3. The Golden Age, or the Lives of Jupiter and Saturn, an historical
play, acted at the Red Bull, by the Queen's servants, 1611. This play
the author stiles the eldest Brother of three Ages. For the story see
Galtruchius's poetical history, Ross's Mystagogus Poeticus; Hollyoak,
Littleton, and other dictionaries.

4. The Silver Age, 1613; including the Love of Jupiter to Alcmena. The
Birth of Hercules, and the Rape of Proserpine; concluding with the
Arraignment of the Moon. See Plautus. Ovid. Metamorph. Lib. 3.

5. The Brazen Age; an historical play, 1613. This play contains the
Death of Centaure Nessus, the tragedy of Meleager, and of Jason and
Medea, the Death of Hercules, Vulcan's Net, &c. For the story see
Ovid's Metamorph. Lib. 4--7--8--9.

6. The Iron Age; the first part a history containing the Rape of
Helen, the Siege of Troy, the Combat between Hector and Ajax. Hector
and Troilus slain by Achilles, the Death of Ajax, &c. 1632.

7. Iron Age, the second part; a History containing the Death of
Penthesilea, Paris, Priam, and Hecuba: the burning of Troy, the Deaths
of Agamemnon, Menelaus, Clytemnestra, Helena, Orestes, Egistus,
Pylades, King Diomede, Pyrrhus, Cethus, Synon, Thersetus, 1632,
which part is addressed to the author's much respected friend Thomas
Manwaring, Esq; for the plot of both parts, see Homer, Virgil, Dares
Phrygius; for the Episodes, Ovid's Epistles, Me