urable William, Earl of Newcastle, at his going to
Scotland, 1633.

21. Love freed from Ignorance and Folly, a Masque.

22. Love Restored, in a Masque, at Court, 1630.

23. Love's Welcome, the King and Queen's Entertainment at Bolsover, at
the Earl of Newcastle's, 1634.

24. Magnetick Lady, or Humours Reconciled, a Comedy, acted at the
Black Fryars, and printed 1640. This play was smartly and virulently
attacked by Dr. Gill, Master of St. Paul's school, part of which, on
account of the answer which Ben gave to it, we shall take the trouble
to transcribe.

But to advise thee Ben, in this strict age,
A brick-hill's better for thee than a stage;
Thou better know'st a Groundfil for to lay
Than lay a plot, or Groundwork of a play,
And better canst direct to cap a chimney,
Than to converse with Chlio, or Polyhimny.

Fall then to work in thy old age agen,
Take up thy trug and trowel, gentle Ben,
Let plays alone; or if thou need'st will write,
And thrust thy feeble muse into the light;
Let Lowen cease, and Taylor scorn to touch,
The loathed stage, for thou hast made it such.

These lines are without wit, and without poetry; they contain a mean
reflexion on Ben's original employment, of which he had no occasion to
be ashamed; but he was paid in kind, and Ben answers him with equal
virulence, and in truth it cannot be said with more wit or poetry, for
it is difficult to determine which author's verses are most wretched.

Shall the prosperity of a pardon still
Secure thy railing rhymes, infamous Gill,
At libelling? shall no star chamber peers,
Pillory, nor whip, nor want of ears,
All which thou hast incurred deservedly,
Nor degradation from the ministry
To be the Denis of thy father's school,
Keep in thy bawling wit, thou bawling fool.
Thinking to stir me, thou hast lost thy end,
I'll laugh at thee, poor wretched Tyke, go send
Thy boltant muse abroad, and teach it rather
A tune to drown the ballads of thy father.
For thou hast nought to cure his fame,
But tune and noise, and eccho of his shame.
A rogue by statute, censured to be whipt,
Cropt, branded, flit, neck-flockt: go, you are stript.

25. Masque, at the Lord Viscount Hadington's Marriage at Court, on
Shrove Tuesday at night, 1608.

26. Masque of Augurs, with several Antimasques, presented on Twelfth
Night, 1608.

27. Masque of Owls, at Kenelworth, presented by the Ghost of Captain
Cox, mounted on