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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Robert Davenport (fl. 1623)

Davenport, Robert. An English poet and dramatist, who flourished about 1623 and died after 1651. His extant works are: ‘A Crowne for a Conquerour and Too Late to Call Backe Yesterday. Two Poems, the One Divine, the Other Morall’ (1623); ‘King John and Matilda’ (1655), a tragedy; and two comedies: ‘A New Trick to Cheat the Divell’ (1639), and ‘The City Night Cap’ (printed in 1661).