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Show E&ntngt of Aughy L T pee 9§7 P",may ‘f'dflc\;z;‘ wil ‘Ar?fe Vindicate b M0 CHAP I The Clergy abufed by the Stage 500t 0 b b wigho - T Lt le Tt A O preence o H Satyr of the Stage upo Clergyis extreamly Particular the I XUl it ) oeher cafes, They level ata fingl ke it el | and ‘confine themfelves to P rforis. Bu o Yars, difhon: here their Buffoonry takes anunufual Co ol wd et pafs ; They fhoot Chain'd-fhot, and ftrik dnd na Word e av Univerfals They play upon the Cha e of racfer, and endeavour to expofe not onl ity o wetken (the Men, but the Bufinefs. - "Tis true, the , aid teh the 2Clergy are no {mall Rub in the Poets way ‘Tisby their Miniftrations that Religion is perpetudted, the other World Refrefh'd and the Interelt of Virtue keptup. Vic ‘will never have an unlimited Range, no - Confcience be totally fubdued, as long a People are fo eafy as to be Priefi-ridden As long as thefe Men are look'd on as th Meflengers of Heaven, and the Support of Government, and enjoy their old Pre (feentions in Creditand Authority; a lon as this Grievance continues, the Stage muf decline o Courfe an Atheifm giv Ground; and Lewdnefs li€ uider Cenfure |