An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces or opera's in the English tongue by Gerard Langbaine.

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Title: An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces or opera's in the English tongue by Gerard Langbaine.
Author: Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692.
Publication: Oxford :: Printed by L.L. for George West and Henry Clements,; 1691.
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Subject terms: English drama -- Bio-bibliography.; Opera -- Bio-bibliography.; Theater -- England.
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William WAYER.

An Author, of whose Time and Writings I can give no further Account, than that he is accounted the Author of a Comedy, which I never saw, called

The more thou liv'st, the more Fool thou art. There are two other Plays (whose Authors are unknown) ascribed by Mr. Philips and Win∣stanley, to our Author; viz. Tryal of Chivalry, and Tom Tyler and his Wife: tho' I believe they were never writ by him.