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Show fmdking t ¢ ¢ €8 of tbt; Stage :::; efter's Dubartas ;'ifm: Epiftle Dedicatory rapt into am ecflafie when J read thef Now, when the Winter's keene To Cryftallize the Baltick Oceanb; eath T glaze the-Lakes, to bridle up the Fl And periwig with Snow the bald pate W od ' amboys POR T & Jalen Sy I am much a.'ecc'z"v'c/ if this be not abomina le faftian, that is, thoughts and words ill f b : J_':M dull Wfi.ifi;w' rted, and without the leaft relation to ea I dare not qtgfwer for an Audience, tha they wou'd no TS of exmf e prodigiogly i Jeoft Wi Stage: fo little value there is to be geven tg th common cry, that nething but Mad efs can pleafe Mad-men mingle o i which fiv'ga"},‘m ; b, ' 4 'fflzmaa;'ch;rni" s Mares: o | 10 the memony of too lte, that [ b o Maximin and Y avagance; and whi apman: Al Tem that [ boew theym [repent of them "'""'f anc it m pri f the Theatre; o the J‘Dp[lflfi Qf .}KM'"" | /'({M a5 MeY 'fi ke in T g i iy JUAE by the Jwe ¥ i S :02'01‘70 i and a Poet mul,ft be off 44 piece with the Spectators, to garn a reputation with them Bu a i m ro contriv'd ft{r State, the height of the roof (how'd be r a proportion to the rea; Jo, in t/'Je Heightenings of Poetry, the firength. an -wehemenc of Figures [bow'd be fuited to the Occafion, the Subject, and the Perf ns Al beyond this is monftrous: tis out of nature, 'tis an e crefcence, and. #ot a living part of Poerry I had not faid thus much, if Jome young Gallants,who pretend to Criticifm,had not told me that this T, ragz'-come / wanted the dignity of fPyle : but as a man who is chargd with a Crime o whichhe thinks himfelf innocent, isapt to be too eager in bis own.defence fo perhaps I bave vindicated my Play with more partiality than I ought or than fuch a trifle can deferve. Tet, whatever beauties it may want, 'ti free at leaft from the grofuefs of thofe faults I mention'd : What Credi it bas gain'd upon the Stage, Ivalue no farther than in reference to Frofit, and the fatisfaltion I had in [eeing it reprefented with all th Jufinefs and gracefulnefs of Aldion. - But as'tis my Intereft to pleafe m Audience, [0 'tis my Ambition to be read; that Tam fure is the more laftin o o Efitt by ) clap it 0;7 {IJC' and.the nobler Defign : for the propriety of thoughts am{ words, whic are the hidden beanties of a Play, are but confus'dly judg'd in the vebemence of Allion: Al things are there bebeld, as in a hafty motion where the objells onely glide before the Eye and (/zfczppe;{r The mof difcerning Critick can: judge no more of thefe filent graces in the Altion than -he who rides Poft throagh an unknown Countrey can diftinguifb. th fituation of places, and the -nature of the foil. The purity of phrafe the clearnefs of conception and expreffion, the boldnefs maintain'd to Ma ¢ ‘agM Spatiu i Wb f': 4 5 / d m t é i ' i r f n n o d u [ c a i i g f t y je' f b o n c r jtgff‘?y elevafz‘%d{{in fiort, thofe v o u e v e f a t o p c e i f c n o f m e r w t f b g a c e t e i F k t m a P e t the Theatre: and yet without al h i o t u the Story mov or the Afor bel u r t i f p o w o n r t i g e t mance, or now._an E th |
