"Hoc seculo [sc. temporibus Elizabetha reginæ et Jacobi regis]
floruerunt--Gulielmus Shacsperus, qui præter opera dramatica,
duo poematia _Lucretiæ stuprum à Tarquinio_, et _Amores Veneris
in Adonidem_, lyrica carmina nonnulla composuit; videtur fuisse,
siquis alius, re verâ poeta natus. Samuel Daniel non obseurus
hujus ætatis poeta, etc....

Ex eis qui dramaticè scripserunt, primas sibi vendicant
Shacsperus, Jonsonus et Fletcherus, quorum hic facundâ et polita
quadam familiaritate sermonis, ille erudito judicio et usu
veterum authorum, alter nativa quadam et poetica sublimitate
ingenii excelluisse videntur. Ante hos in hoc genere poeseos
apud nos eminuit nemo. Pauci quidem antea scripserunt, at parum
foeliciter; hos autem tanquam duces itineris plurimi saltem
æmulati sunt, inter quos præter Sherleium, proximum à supra
memorato triumviratu. Suclingium, Randolphium, Davenantium et
Carturitium--enumerandi veniunt Ric. Bromeus, Tho. Heivodus,"
etc.

2. What are the contents of a work entitled, [Old German script:
Schaubune Englischer und Franßofischer Comædianten], printed before
1671?

This work is recorded, but without a date, in the _Historia literaria_
of Simon Paulli, which was printed at Strasbourg in 1671. A statement of
its contents would be very acceptable to myself, and to other admirers
of our early dramatic literature.

3. Who is the fortunate possessor of the _Lives and characters of the