SPRAT. Account, P. XXXI

4. Par exemple Miss Mirror. Recollections of a Literary Life, p. 46.

5. Les principales biographies de Cowley vers la fin du siècle sont : Edward Prises Theatrum Poetarum; or a compleat Collection of the Poets, especially the most eminent of all Ages; the Ancients distinguish’t from the Moderns in their several alphabets. With some Observations and Reflexions upon many of them, particularly those of our own Nation. Toaether with a prefatory Discourse of the Poets and Poetry in generall. London, 1685. — Gerard LANGBAINE. An Account of the English Dramatic Poets: or, some Observations and Remarks on the Lives and Writings of all those that have published either Comedies, Tragedies, Tragi-comedies, Pastorals, Masques, Interludes, Farces, or Operas, in the Enalish tongue. Oxford, 1691. — John AUBREY. Brief Lives, chiefly of Contemporaries…., edited by Andrew Clark, Oxford, 1898.