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Show Zhe Conclubion Worl difturb'd T grant this defperat Cuftom is no Original‘of the Stage. Bu then why was not the Growth of i check'd? I thought the Poets bufinefs ha not been to back falfe Reafoning and i Prattife; and to fix usin Frenfy and Miftake! Yes. They have done their endeavour to cherifh the Malignity, and kee the Diforder in Countenance. They hav made 1t both the Mark, and the Merit o Aeraints ;ztiou tg Home ifl 1 uori a2 o i Grc a Man of Honour ; and fet it off with Qua lity, and Commendation. But I have dif- 1 cours'd on this Subject elfwhere, an ndee therefore {Hull purfue it no farther To drawtowards an End. And here muft obferve that thefe two later Excep tions are but Petty Mifmanagements with { refpe€t to the Former. And when th beft are thus bad, what are the worft What muft we fay of the more foul Re prefentations of all the Impudence in Lan- I guage and Gefture? Can this Stuff be th Inclination of Ladies? Ts a Reading upon _f.{her. Bu Vice fo Entertaining, and do theylovet e fee the Stews Diffected before them ? On ;' would think the Difhonour of their ow .m Sex, the Difcovery of fo much Lewdnefs, - dlre | and the treating Human Nature o ver e fuch Coarfly, could have little' Satisfalion in't ‘LThe\e Ent r Let us fet Conicience afide, and throw th 7"&11}1 RDo ge other World out of the Queftion : Thefe InV of - terelts are far the greateft, but not all. Th :gszy th Dey Ladie wallcal al Slgmfi Son |