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Show A Ampbhitrion Ot o DS too' much out of Order to appear: truth is, Our Stage-Poets feem to fence a naptm‘eg; } gainft Cenfure by the excefs of Lewdnef And to make the overgrown fize of Crime, a' Ground for Impunity. = As i a' Malefattor fhould projeét his Efcape b appearing too fcandalous for Publick Tryal, " However, This is their Armour o Proof; thisis the Strength they retreat to +They are fortified in Smut, and almof impregnable in Stench, {o that wherethe deferve moft, there's no comming at them Hhiy Viok his D RAM, lde tented B edracyi fh Hew ot Hu To proceed. I defire to know what Authority Mr. Dryden has for this extraordi et f Ti th (e o V Tno Com w0 s 1 Vi gel ¥ For ]"P‘mv - 1 16 i il i fi{eefi Th naty Reprefentation #His Original Plantus 18 no Precedent. Indeed Plautus isthe only bold Heathen that ever made Fupire tread the Srage. But then he ftops fa fhort of the Liberties of the Englifh Amphitrion. ~ Jupiter at Rome, and London have the {fame unaccountable Defign; bu the Methods of purfuit are very different Th Firft, does not folicit in fcandalou Language, nor flourifh upon hi nefs, nor endeavours to fet it u Fafhion. - Plauntus had fome regar Height of the Chara&er, an Lewdfor th to th the Opini on of his Country, and the Reftraints o Modefty. The Sallies of Ariftophanes d not .come up to the'cafe; And if the did, I have cut.offthe Suecoursfrom tha N Quar 17 |