William Beeston(16..-1682).

[366]Did I tell you that I have mett with old Mr ...[367]who knew all the old English poets, whose lives I amtaking from him: his father was master of the ... play-house.

[368]The more to be admired, quaere—he was not a company keeper; lived in Shorditch; would not be debauched; and if invited to court, was in paine.

W. Shakespeare—quaere Mr. Beeston, who knowes most of him from Mr. Lacy. He lives in Shoreditch at Hoglane within 6 dores north of Folgate. Quaere etiam forBen Jonson.

[369]Old Mr. Beeston, whom Mr. Dreyden calles 'the chronicle of the stage,' died at his house in Bishopsgate street without, about Bartholomew-tyde, 1682. Mr. Shipey in Somerset-house hath his papers.


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