Thomas, an English poet in the seventeenth century, was born in Northamptonshire in 1605. He was educated at Westminster and Cambridge, and very early distinguished by his excellent genius; for about the age of nine or ten years he wrote the History of the Incarnation of our Saviour in verse. His subsequent writings established his character, and gained him the esteem and friendship of some of the greatest men of that age, particularly of Ben Jonson, who adopted him as one of his sons in the muses. He died in the year 1634, and was honourably interred. His principal works are, 1. The Muses' Looking-glass, a comedy; 2. Amyntas, or the Impossible Dowry, a pastoral, acted before the king and queen; 3. Aristippus, or the Jovial Philosopher; 4. The Conceited Pedlar; 5. The Jealous Lovers, a Comedy; 6. Hey for Honesty, down with Knavery, a Comedy; and several other poems.