10. Matrimonial Troubles, in two parts; the second being a Tragedy, or as the authoress stiles it, a Tragi-comedy. 11. Nature's three Daughters, Beauty, Love, and Wit, a Comedy, in two parts. 12. Presence, a Comedy. 13. Public Wooing, a Comedy, in which the Duke wrote several of the suitors speeches. 14. Religious, a Tragi-Comedy. 15. Several Wits, a Comedy. 16. Sociable Companions, or the Female Wits, a Comedy. 17. Unnatural Tragedy. Act II. Scene III. the Duchess inveighs against Mr. Camden's Britannia. 18. Wit's Cabal, a Comedy, in two parts. 19. Youth's Glory, and Death's Banquet, a Tragedy in two parts. Mr. Langbaine has preserved part of the general prologue to her plays, which we shall insert as a specimen of her versification: But noble readers, do not think my plays Are such as have been writ in former days; As Johnson, Shakespear, Beaumont, Fletcher writ, Mine want their learning, reading, language, wit. The Latin phrases, I could never tell, But Johnson could, which made him write so well. Greek, Latin poets, I could never read, Nor their historians, but our English Speed: I could not steal their wit, nor plots out-take; All my plays plots, my own poor brain did make. From Plutarch's story, I ne'er took a plot, Nor from romances, nor from Don Quixote. * * * * * WILLIAM CAVENDISH, Baron Ogle, viscount Mansfield, earl, marquis, and duke of Newcastle, justly reckoned one of the most finished gentlemen, as well as the most distinguished patriot, general, and statesman of his age. He was son of Sir Charles Cavendish, youngest son of Sir William Cavendish, and younger brother of the first earl of Devonshire, by Katherine daughter of Cuthbert lord Ogle[1]. He was born in the year 1592, and discovered in his infancy a promptness of genius, and a love of literature. His father took care to have him instructed by the best masters in every science. He no sooner appeared at the court of King James I. than the reputation of his abilities drew the attention of that monarch upon him, who made him a knight of the Bath 1610, at the creation of Henry Prince of Wales[2].