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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber
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The Play called the Four P's being a new and and merry interlude of
a Palmer, Pardoner, Poticary, and Pedler--printed in an old English
character in quarto, has in the title page the pictures of four men in
old-fashioned habits, wrought off, from a wooden cut. He has likewise
writ the following interludes.

Between John the Husband and Tib the Wife.
Between the Pardoner and the Fryer, the Curate
and neighbouring Pratt.
Play of Gentleness and Nobility, in two parts.
The Pindar of Wakefield, a comedy.
Philotas Scotch, a comedy.

This author also wrote a dialogue, containing the number in effect of
all the proverbs in the English tongue, compact in a matter concerning
two manner of marriages. London 1547, and 1598, in two parts in
quarto, all writ in old English verse, and printed in an English
character.

Three hundred epigrams upon three hundred proverbs, in old English
character.

A fourth hundred of epigrams, printed in quarto, London 1598.

A fifth hundred of epigrams, printed in quarto, London 1598.

The Spider and Fly. A Parable of the Spider and Fly, London 1556, in a
pretty thick quarto, all in old English verse. Before the title is the
picture of John Heywood at full length, printed from a wooden cut,
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