The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Fountain

by Gerard Langbaine

John Fountain.

A Devonshire Gentleman who liv'd in the Reign of K. Charles II. and writ one Play, call'd,

The Reward of Virtue; a Comedy, 4to. 1661, never Acted whilst the Author liv'd, but after his Death Mr. Shadwell Reviv'd and Alter'd it; and then under another Title, (viz.) The Royal Shepherdess, it was Acted with Applause.