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Show M, (215; PREFACE. O fpeak for a Play, if it can't fpeak for it felf, is vain ; and if it can, 'tis needlefs. For one of thefe Reafons (I can't yet tell which, for 'tis n o w but the fecond Day of ading) I refolve to fay nothing for Efop, tho I know he'd be glad of help ; for let the beft happen that can, his Journy's up Hill, with a dead Englifh weight at the Tail of him. At Paris indeed he fcrambled up fomething fafter (for 'twas up Hill there too) than I'm afraid he will do here : ThtFrench having more Mercury in their Heads, and lefs Beefand Pudding in their Bellies. Our Solidity may fet hard, what their Folly makes eafy : for fools I o wn they are, you k n o w w e have found them fo in the Con-duel of the W a r ; I wilh w e m a y d o j ^ i n j ^ e Management of the Peace : DuTtKatY neither EfoYsB\&n$s, nor mine. This Play* Gentlemen (or one not much unlike it) was writ in French about fix Years fince by one Mon-fieur Bourfaut; 'twas play'd at Paris by the French Comedians, and this was its Fate : The firft D ay it appear'd, 'twas routed (People feldom being fond of what they don't undei ftand, their own fweet Pcrfons excepted.) The fecond (by the help of |