The lives of the most famous English poets, or, The honour of Parnassus in a brief essay of the works and writings of above two hundred of them, from the time of K. William the Conqueror to the reign of His present Majesty, King James II / written by William Winstanley, author of The English worthies ...

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The lives of the most famous English poets, or, The honour of Parnassus in a brief essay of the works and writings of above two hundred of them, from the time of K. William the Conqueror to the reign of His present Majesty, King James II / written by William Winstanley, author of The English worthies ...
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Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.
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London :: Printed by H. Clark for Samuel Manship ...,
1687.
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JOHN FORD.

TO these we may add John Ford, a Dramatick Writer likewise of those times; very be∣neficial to the Red-Bull and Fortune-Play-houses; as may appear by these Plays which he wrote, viz. The Fancies, Ladies Tryal, Comedies; the broken Heart, Lovers Melancholy, Loves Sacrifice, 'tis pity she's a Whore, Tragedies; Perkin Warbeck, a Histo∣ry; and an Associate with Rowley and Deckar in a Tragi-Comedy called The Witch of Edmonton.

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