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Show HE I firff defigu'd this Pla 7 found or thought I fok [omewba{ Jo moving in t e Jerious part of it,and o pl afant i the Comzck,, as might deferv a more thay ordinary Care i both : Accordingly I us d the beft o my endeavour, nagemen of two Plots, fo wery different fro each other, that it was not perhap the Talent of every Writer, to hav made then of a piece the have I attempted other FPlays of the f "on,' withth Jame Fudgment; though with lik Juccefs Poets ma [ufpect themfelves for the foun nefs and partiality of Parents t youngeft Children, yer I hope I may fiand xempted from this Rule, becaufe d know my felf to0 well to be ev r Jatisfied with iy own Conception which have [el fe 1dea's that 1 had within me : and con fequently, I prefume I ma have liberty to judge when write more or lef pa'rdonaél)/, as.an ordinary Markf-man way kno certainl when be fhoot lefs wide at what he aymes. . Befides, the Care a d Pains I have beflowe on this beyond wmy other Tragh comedies may reafonably make he Wori conclude, that either I can -doe ot hing tolerably, o that this Poem i #0t much amifs Few good Pillares have been Jinifh'd at one fitting #either can a true juft Flay, whick isto bear the Teff of Ages, be prod c at a heat, or by the force of Fancy, without the maturity of Judgment For my own part, I have both fo juft a Diffidence of my felf, and fogrea a4 Rewerence for my Audience that Idareventure nothing without a firil Examination ; and am as much afbarid'te put 4 loofe indigefted Play #po . the Publick, as I fbould be to offer brafs moneyin a Payment : For tho i Joould be taken, ( as it is too often on the Stage,) yet if will be found in th Jecond telling : And ajudicicus Reader will difcover inhis Cloffet that trafl' - fuff whofe glittering deceiv'd bim in the altion I have often heardth - Stationer fighing in his fbop, and wifbing for thofe hands to take off hi wmelancholy bargain which clapp'd its Performance on the Stage. Ina Play\: houfe every thing contributes to impofe upon the Fudgment; the Lights BN th Scemes the Flabits and above all, the Grace of f4c‘2ion, wb{'cb Z ‘commonly the beft where there is the moff need of it, fu.rprlfi' the 1'4{!6116'"68 and caft a4 mift upow their Underflandings; not wnlike the cunning of Fugler T us wit who is always [faring us in the face, and overwhelmin m A gibberif - R |