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Show i - Wen i XA Wh@ Was P 5 Mfiflfil‘ it He op ahof ful 1ty of an Audienc o the Tem hy COt/feflag t. Under f ke, For d 15 by Ahe Stage the Laft : And take Leave without th leaft | appearance of Reformation. Th Mock=Aftrologer nrges Ben Johnfon's Silen Woman as a othe Precedent to his pur pofc. . For. there Dauphine confeffes himfelf in Love with all the Collegiare Lady's Awd.yet: this naughty Dauphine is Crowne in the end with th Pofelfion of his Unecle' Eftate jand with the hopes of all his Miftreffes This Charge, a I take it, is, fomewha too: fevere. I grant Daaphin Profefle himfelf in Love with the Collegiate Ladie at firft. But when they invited him t a private Vifit, he makes them no Promife e | but rather appears tired, and willing t y ) fet e Prache and nency ot e S e Th eveane I b efion. rs; do e ; M;.;/z.Ajff 010 1Bl difengage. Dauphin therefore is not altogether {o naughty as this Author repre{fents him Ben Jobnfoi's Fox is clearly againft Mr Dryden And here I have his own Confeflion for proof. ‘He declares the Poes's Efay o end in this Play was the Panifbment of Vice, Dram, and the Reward of Virtue Ben was forced "k Poto ftrain for this piece of Juftice, and ;‘ré break through the Unity of Defign. Thi Mr. Dryden remarks upon him: Ho ever he 1s pleafed to commend the Per formance, and calls it an excellent Fifz f e Thes ACE ey Ben Johnfon {hall {peak for himfelf afe terwards in the Charaller of a Critick i I |