The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Thomas Meriton

by Gerard Langbaine

Thomas Meriton.

THis Scribler liv’d since the Restauration, and accounted the dullest and most impotent of Dramatick Poets in his Time, he publish’d Two Plays:

Love and War, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1658. and dedicated to the truly Noble, Judicious Gentleman, and his most esteemed Brother, Mr. Geo. Meriton. I do not find this Play was ever acted, or deserved acting.

The Wandring Lover, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1658. The Title makes you believe it was acted several times privately, at sundry Places, by the Author and his Friends, with great Applause; and the Dedication is to the Ingenious, Judicious, and much Honoured Gentleman, Francis Wright, Esq;