The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Maidwell

by Gerard Langbaine

Maidwell.

A Gentleman yet living, who having made it his Business for some Years, to educate young Gentlemen, and initiate them in the Learned Tongues, has at length quitted this Ludum Literarium, for a quiet retreat, during his Application to this Business, he found time to write a Play, called,

The Loving Enemies, a Comedy, 4 to. 1680. Acted at the Duke of York’s Theatre in Dorset Garden, and dedicated to the Honourable, Charles Fox, Esq; The Author seems to have imitated the Virtuoso, in this Play.