Momus triumphans: or, The plagiaries of the English stage: expos'd in a catalogue of all the comedies, tragi-comedies, masques, tragedies, opera's, pastorals, interludes, &c. both ancient and modern, that were ever yet printed in English. The names of their known and supposed authors. Their several volumes and editions: with an account of the various originals, as well English, French, and Italian, as Greek and Latine; from whence most of them have stole their plots. By Gerard Langbaine Esq;

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Momus triumphans: or, The plagiaries of the English stage: expos'd in a catalogue of all the comedies, tragi-comedies, masques, tragedies, opera's, pastorals, interludes, &c. both ancient and modern, that were ever yet printed in English. The names of their known and supposed authors. Their several volumes and editions: with an account of the various originals, as well English, French, and Italian, as Greek and Latine; from whence most of them have stole their plots. By Gerard Langbaine Esq;
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Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692.
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London :: printed for Nicholas Cox, and are to be sold by him in Oxford,
MDCLXXXVIII. [1688, i.e. 1687]
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"Momus triumphans: or, The plagiaries of the English stage: expos'd in a catalogue of all the comedies, tragi-comedies, masques, tragedies, opera's, pastorals, interludes, &c. both ancient and modern, that were ever yet printed in English. The names of their known and supposed authors. Their several volumes and editions: with an account of the various originals, as well English, French, and Italian, as Greek and Latine; from whence most of them have stole their plots. By Gerard Langbaine Esq;." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A88673.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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ERRATA.

BY reason of my great distance from the Press, several considerable Errata's are to be met with throughout; but the most material are these which follow: Which the Reader is desired to Pardon and Correct.

In the Catalogue it self.

PAge 6. The Wits is left out, a Play of Sir W. Davenant. p. 10. Courageous Turk, &c. for 4o read 8o p. 11. Play of Love, &c. dele 4o, for I never saw but the first Play. p. 13. for Hymenes read Hymenaei. p. 16 for Antiqua∣rary read Antiquary. p. 17. Heyre for 8o read 4o. p. 25. for Loyal Brother read Revengers Tragedy.

In the Notes.

PAge 7. and so throughout, for in vitam read in vitâ, and in vitas read in vitis. p. 9. Note (c) for Procopis read Procopii. p. 10. N. (n) add the Line of the next Page, viz. Plot from Guiciardine's History of Italy, p. 11. dele and from Poetical History, ibid. to N. (*) instead of what is Printed, read, These three Plays are Translated from Seneca, and Printed with the rest, Lond. 1581. p. 13. N. (b) for Book the Ninth, Satyr the first Part, read, Book the First, Satyr 9. p. 17. N. (d) for du Bec, read du Bec. p. 18. N. (†) for Fourteen, read Thirteen, and for Three, read Five. p. 19. N. (l) belongs to Cambyses. p. 20. N. (h) for Mons read Monsieur. p. 21. N. (k) for Maenectrini, read Mae∣nechmi. p. 22. N. (i) for 1581, read 1653. ibid. to Triumph of Beauty, add (k) with this Note, Printed with his Poems, Lond. 1646. p. 25. N. (b) for Publish'd, read Reprinted. ibid. N. (d) for Musaee Erotoprgnion, read Musaei Erotopagnion. p. 24. N. (s) for K. read Prince. p. 25. N. (n) to Observationum, add Medicarum Volumen. p. 27. N. (d) for Poem, read Play. ibid. N. (g) belongs to French Conjurer, and N. (h) to Witty Combat. p. 28. N. (h) belongs to Thornby-Abby: N. (i) to Marriage Broker, and the last Line to Menechmus. p. 31. N. (r) belongs to Rivals.

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