_Anthony Brewer_ was also one who in his time contributed very much towards the _English_ Stage by his Dramatick Writings; especially in that noted one of his, entituled, _Lingua_; which (as it is reported) being once acted in _Cambridge_, the late Usurper _Cromwel_ had therein the Part of _Tactus_, the Substance of the Play being a Contention among the Senses for a Crown, which _Lingua_, who would have made up a sixth Sense, had laid for them to find; having this Inscription; _Which of the five that doth deserve it best, Shall have his Temples with this Coronet blest._ This Mock-contention for a Crown, is said to swell his Ambition so high, that afterwards he contended for it in earnest, heading such a notable Rebellion, as had almost ruined three flourishing Kingdoms. But to return to Mr. _Brewer_; Besides this _Lingua_, he wrote _Loves Loadstone_, and _the Countrey-Girl_, Comedies; _the Love-sick King_, and _Landagartha_, Tragi-Comedies, and _Loves Dominion_, a Pastoral. * * * * * _HENRY GLAPTHORN_. _Henry Glapthorn_ was one well deserving of the _English_, being one of the chiefest Dramatick Writers of this Age; deservingly commendable not so much for the quantity as the quality of his Plays; being his _Hollander_, _Ladies Priviledge_, and _Wit in a Constable_, Comedies; his _Argalus_ and _Parthenia_, a Pastoral; and _Alberus Wailestein_, a Tragedy; in which Tragedy these Lines are much commended. _This Law the Heavens inviolably keep, Their Justice well may slumber, but ne'er sleep,_ * * * * * _JOHN DAVIS_ of _Hereford_. In the writing of this Mans Life, we shall make use of Dr. _Fuller_ in his _England_'s _Worthies_, who saith, that he was the greatest Master of the Pen that _England_ in his Age beheld; for, 1. _Fast writing_; so incredible his expedition. 2. _Fair writing_; some minutes consultation being required to decide whether his Lines were written or printed. 3. _Close writing_; a Mystery which to do well, few attain unto. 4. _Various writing_; _Secretary, Roman, Court_ and _Text_. The Poetical Fiction of _Briareus_ the Giant, who had an hundred hands, found a Moral in him, who could so cunningly and copiously disguise his aforesaid elemental hands, that by mixing, he could make them appear an hundred; and if not so many sorts, so many degrees of writing. He had also many pretty excursions into Poetry, and could flourish Matters as well as Letters, with his Fancy as well as with his Pen. Take a taste of his Abilities in those Verses of his before _Coriat's Crudities_, being called the _Odcombian Banquet_, wherein the whole Club of Wits in that Age joyned together, to write Mock-commendatory Verses in _Praise-dispraise_ of his Book.