7. Aurenge-zebe; or the Great Mogul, a Tragedy, dedicated to the earl
of Mulgrave, acted 1676. The story is related at large in Taverner's
voyages to the Indies, vol. i. part 2. This play is written in heroic
verse.

8. The Tempest; or the inchanted Island, a Comedy, acted at the duke of
York's theatre, and printed in 4to. 1676. This is only an alteration
of Shakespear's Tempest, by Sir William Davenant and Dryden. The new
characters in it were chiefly the invention and writing of Sir William,
as acknowledged by Mr. Dryden in his preface.

9. Feigned Innocence; or Sir Martin Mar-all, a Comedy, acted at the duke
of York's theatre, and printed in 4to. 1678. The foundation of this
is originally French, the greatest part of the plot and some of the
language being taken from Moliere's Eteurdi.

10. The Assignation; or Love in a Nunnery, a Comedy, acted at the
theatre-royal, and printed in 4to. 1678, addressed to Sir Charles
Sedley. This play, Mr. Langbain tells us, was damned on the stage, or as
the author expresses it in the epistle dedicatory, succeeded ill in the
representation; but whether the fault was in the play itself, or in
the lameness of the action, or in the numbers of its enemies, who came
resolved to damn it for the title, he will not pretend any more than the
author to determine.

11. The State of Innocence; or the Fall of Man, an Opera, written in
heroic verse, and printed in 4to. 1678. It is dedicated to her royal
highness the duchess of York, on whom the author passes the following
extravagant compliment.