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Thomas Randolph 1605-35, English poet and dramatist. After graduating from Cambridge in 1632, he went to London where he became a disciple of Ben Jonson. His best-known poems are "A Gratulatory to Ben Jonson" and "On the Death of a Nightingale." Amyntas (1631), The Muses' Looking-Glass (1630), and The Jealous Lovers (1632) are his most famous comedies.

Bibliography: See edition of his works edited by W. C. Hazlitt (1875).

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Randolph, Thomas (1605–35), educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became known as a writer in English and Latin verse. His principal plays are Amyntas, a pastoral comedy, and The Muses Lookinge-Glasse, printed 1638; and Hey for Honesty, printed 1651. He wrote an eclogue included in Annalia Dubrensia in celebration of the Cotswold Games.

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