These two admirable Wits wrote in all two and fifty Plays, whereof three and forty were Comedies; namely, _Beggars Bush_, _Custom of the Country_, _Captain Coxcomb_, _Chances_, _Cupid's Revenge_, _Double Marriage_, _Elder Brother_, _Four Plays in one_, _Fair Maid of the Inn_, _Honest man's Fortune_, _Humorous Lieutenant_, _Island Princess_, _King and no King_, _Knight of the burning Pestle_, _Knight of_ Malta, _Little_ French _Lawyer_, _Loyal Subject_, _Laws of_ Candy, _Lovers Progress_, _Loves Cure_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _Mad Lover_, _Maid in the Mill_, _Monsieur_ Thomas, _Nice Valour_, _Night-Walker_, _Prophetess_, _Pilgrim_, _Philaster, Queen of_ Corinth, _Rule a Wife and have a Wife_, Spanish _Curate_, _Sea-Voyage_, _Scornful Lady_, _Womans Prize_, _Women pleased_, _Wife for a Month_, _Wit at several weapons_, and a _Winters Tale_. Also six Tragedies; _Bonduca_, the _Bloody Brother_, _False One_, the _Maids Tragedy_, _Thiery and Theodoret_, _Valentinian_, and _Two Noble Kinsmen_, a Tragi-Comedy, _Fair Shepherdess_, a Pastoral; and a _Masque of_ Grays-Inn _Gentlemen_. It is reported of them, that meeting once in a Tavern, to contrive the rude Draught of a Tragedy, _Fletcher_ undertook to _kill the King_ therein, whose Words being over-heard by a Listner (though his Loyalty not to be blamed herein) he was accused of High Treason, till the Mistake soon appearing, that the Plot was only against a Dramatick and Scenical King, all wound off in Merriment. Yet were not these two Poets so conjoyned, but that each of them did several Pieces by themselves, Mr. _Beaumont_, besides other Works, wrote a Poem, entituled, _Salmacis_ and _Hermaphroditus_, a Fable taken out of _Ovid's Metamorphosis_; and Mr. _Fletcher_ surviving Mr. _Beamont_, wrote good Comedies of himself; so that it could not be laid to his Charge what _Ajax_ doth to _Ulysses_; _Nihil hic_ Diomede _remoto_, When _Diomedes_ was gone, He could do nought alone. Though some think them inferior to the former, and no wonder if a single thread was not so strong as a twisted one, Mr. _Fletcher_ (as it is said) died in _London_ of the Plague, in the first year of King _Charles_ the First, 1625. * * * * * _WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR_.