Alexander, an English poet, was born in 1620, and died in 1666. He was an attorney in the lord mayor's court, and was the author of the greater number of the songs and epigrams that were published in favour of the royalists, and against the Rump, as well in Cromwell's time as during the Rebellion. These, together with his epistles and epigrams translated from different authors, were all printed in one volume octavo after the Restoration. He published a translation of Horace, by himself and others; and was the author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers. He also edited two volumes of Richard Brome's plays.

Richard, a dramatic writer in the reign of Charles I. and a contemporary of Dekker, Ford, Shirley, and others. He was originally a servant of Ben Jonson; but he soon acquired a high literary reputation, and was addressed in some lines by his quondam master on account of his comedy entitled The Northern Lass. Brome's genius lay entirely in comedy. His plots are original, and far from being ill conducted; and his characters, which for the most part are strongly marked, were the offspring of his own experience, and close attention to the foibles of the human heart. He has left fifteen comedies.