6.  The Fatal Dowry, a Tragedy, often acted at private house in Black Fryars, by his Majesty’s servants, printed in 4to.  London, 1632; this play was written by our author, in conjunction with Nathaniel Field.  The behaviour of Charlois in voluntarily chusing imprisonment to ransom his father’s corpse, that it might receive the funeral rites, is copied from the Athenian Cymon, so much celebrated by Valerius Maximus, lib. v. c. 4. ex. 9.  Plutarch and Cornelius Nepos, notwithstanding, make it a forced action, and not voluntary.

7.  The Guardian, a comical History, often acted at a private house in Black Fryars, by the King’s Servants, 1665.  Severino’s cutting off Calipso’s nose in the dark, taking her for his wife Jolantre, is borrowed from the Cimerian Matron, a Romance, 8vo. the like story is related in Boccace.  Day 8.  Novel 7.

7 [sic].  The Great Duke of Florence, a comical History, often presented with success, at the Phaenix in Drury Lane, 1636; this play is taken from our English Chronicles, that have been written in the reign of Edgar.

9.  The Maid of Honour, a Tragi-Comedy, often acted at the Phaenix in Drury Lane, 1632.

10.  A New Way to pay Old Debts, a Comedy, acted 1633; this play met with great success on its first representation, and has been revived by Mr. Garrick, and acted on the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane, 1750.

11.  Old Law, a New Way to please You, an excellent Comedy, acted before the King and Queen in Salisbury-house, printed in 4to.  London, 1656.  In this play our author was assisted by Mr. Middleton, and Mr. Rowley.

12.  The Picture, a Tragi-Comedy, often presented at the Globe and Black Fryars Playhouse, by the King’s servants, printed in London, 1636, and dedicated to his selected friends, the noble Society of the Inner-Temple; this play was performed by the most celebrated actors of that age, Lowin, Taylor, Benfield.

13.  The Renegado, a Tragi-Comedy, often acted by the Queen’s Servants, at the private Playhouse in Drury Lane, printed in 4to.  London, 1630.

14.  The Roman Actor, performed several times with success, at a private house in the Black-Fryars, by the King’s Servants; for the plot read Suetonius in the Life of Domitian, Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, lib. vii.  Tacitus, lib. xiii.

15.  Very Woman, or the Prince of Tarent, a Tragi-Comedy, often acted at a private house in Black Fryars, printed 1655.

16.  The Virgin Martyr, a Tragedy, acted by his Majesty’s Servants, with great applause, London, printed in 4to. 1661.  In this play our author took in Mr. Thomas Decker for a partner; the story may be met with in the Martyrologies, which have treated of the tenth persecution in the time of Dioclesian, and Maximian.

17.  The Unnatural Combat, a Tragedy, presented by the King’s Servants at the Globe, printed at London 1639.  This old Tragedy, as the author tells his patron, has neither Prologue nor Epilogue, “it being composed at a time, when such by-ornaments were not advanced above the fabric of the whole work.”