or
calls this the first part; and in his conclusion, as he stiles it, or
epilogue, he promises a second part, saying,

If this first part, gentles, do like you well;
The second part shall greater murders tell.

The plot is founded on the Turkish history in the reign of Selinus I.
Mr. Philips and Mr. Winstanley have ascribed a comedy to this author,
called Cupid's Whirligig, tho' Democritus and Heraclitus were not more
different in their temper, than his genius was opposite to comedy,
besides the true author was one Mr. E. S. who in his dedicatory
epistle says,

"That being long pregnant with desire to bring forth
something, and being afterwards brought to bed,
had chose his friend Mr. Robert Hayman to be
godfather, not doubting but his child would be
well maintained, feeing he could not live above
an hour with him; and therefore he entreated
him when he was dead, that he might be buried
deep enough in his good opinion, and that he
might deserve this epitaph;

Here lies the child that was born in mirth,
Against the strict rules of child-birth;
And to be quit, I gave him to my friend,
Who laught him to death, and that was his end."

The reason of my making this digression, is to shew, that such
ridiculous unmeaning mirth, is not likely to have fallen from Mr.
Goff, as he was a grave man, and nothing but what was manly droped
from his pen. In the latter part of his life he forsook the stage for
the pulpit, and instead of plays writ sermons, some of which appeared
in print in the year 1627. To these works may be added his Latin
funeral oration, at the divinity school, at the obsequies of Sir
Henry Saville, printed in 4to, Oxon 1622; another in Christ's-church
cathedral, at the funeral of Dr. Goodwin, canon of that church,
printed in London 1627.

[Footnote 1: Langbaine's Lives of the Poets, 223.]

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Sir FULK GREVILLE, Lord BROOKE,

Sprung from an honourable family in Warwickshire; he was educated both
at Oxford and Cambridge, and introduced to court by an uncle in the
service of Queen Elisabeth, who received him into her favour, which
he had the happiness to preserve uninterupted to her death. At the
coronation of James I, he was created Knight of the Bath, and soon
after obtained a grant of the ruinous castle of Warwick. He was next
appointed sub-treasurer, chancellor of the Exchequer, and privy
counsellor, and then advanced to the de