Gerard Langbaine, The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets… (1698)
“ THis Author was Master of Arts in Christ-Church-College, Oxon, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, writ two Plays. David and Bethshabe, their Love, with the Tragedy of Absalom, 4 to. 1599. This Play, as the Title says, was divers times play’d on the Stage. Plot from Holy Scripture. ”
