The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Mason
John Mason.
THis Poet was Master of Arts in King James the First’s Time, and writ one Play call’d,
Muleasses, the Turk; a Tragedy, 4 to. 1610. Acted by the Children of his Majesty’s Revels. This Author, in his Title Page, calls it, A Worthy Tragedy, and had a great Conceit of its meeting with Success, adding in the Front, this Sentence of Horace,
- Sume Superbiam quæsitam meritis.