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Show € WOud g ygmy Pogts Thoygh Pack up the (ex1 ~ Frenzy, that no Bookfeller wow'd meddl on any terms without Burlesk; infomuc that Avus. 1649. was at Paris printed a ferious Treatife with this Title J¥5 Ingeminf -==-La Paffimn de Noftre Seignenr, Envers Burle[ques s Ut all o If we cannot rife to the Perfettion of in Here ist d Bty rom the Th ne the Heut Prieftsand(f 6 of Gaul, th Charlemap, d Loynsof s ny years b s appetity ' B;/r/tfi]flt' 4 an {de the their tu our or fober m jere pofffg from Dil ¢ Court far wett Aia Freth treigue in Sophocles, let us {it down wit the honefty and implicity of the firft begin ners in Tragedy: As for example One of the moft {imple now extang, i the Perfiansby Aefechylus Some ten years after that Darius bad bee beaten by the Greeks, Xerxes (bis Fathe Darius being dead) brought againft the Juch Forces by Sea and Land, the like meve known in Hiftory : Xerxes went alfo in perfon with all the Maifon de Roy Satrapie an Gendarmery; 2// were routed Some fort years afterwards the Poet takes hence hi {fubje(t fora Tragedy The Place 7 by Darius's Tomb, in the Metropolis of Perfia The Time is the Night, an hour or two befor day-break Firfl, on the Stage are feen 1§ Perfons i Robes , proper for the Satrapa, or Chie Princes in Perlia : Suppofe they met fo earl at the Tomb,then [acredyand ordinarily reforte Z |
