Excerpt from Plays: Viz. The Orphan, and Venice Preserv'd In his decline of life, he experienced manf verfes of fortune, in regard to his clrcumfiafioeg, all generally changing for the worfe he had'ith: misfortune to die wretchedly in a public hoofe, on tower-hill, whither, it is fuppofed, he had retired to avoid the prefl'ure of his creditors-some have faid, that downright hunger, compelling him to fall too eagerly upon a piece of bread, of which he had been fome time in want, the firfi mouthful choked him, and infiantly put a period to his days. Thus died the famous Otwar, no: more remarkable for moving the tender pallions, than for the variety of fortune to which he himrelf was fubje 'ted.

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