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

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John Palsgrave.

This Author was a Batchelor of Divinity, and Chaplain to King Henry the Eighth. He published one Play under the Title of

Acolastus, a Comedy, 4 to. 1540. dedicated to King Henry the Eighth; translated from the Latin Play of the same Name, writ by Guil. Fullonius, and printed in Old English Character. ’Tis the Parable of the Prodigal Son.