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Show Fmmorality €ncourage They ought to fpeak ' in Defence of V tue, and Frugality, and fhow a. Regar Now from the Rule of th to Religion Chorus, we may conclude his Judgmen " for the Play. For as he obferves, ther muft be a Uniformity between the Chorp and thie Ads The muft havethe fam View, and be all of ‘a Piece. From heng 'tis plain that Horace would have no Im moral Charaiters have either Countenanc or good Fortune, upon the Stage. If 'ti faid the very mention f the Chorus {hew the Dire&tions were 1ntended for Trag dy. 'To thi I anfwer, that the Confequence 1s no For the ufe of a Chorus is not/in good confiftent with Comedy, 'The ancient Com dians tad it. Ariftophanesis; an Inftane L know 'tis faid the Chorus was left in that they call-the New Comedy But can't fee the conclufivenefs of this Affe vid. skt tion Fo Ariffophanes his Plutus 15 Ne Comedy with .a Chorus w't. ~ And Awstotl who lived after this Revolution -of th Stage, mentions nothing of the Omiffio of the Chorus. He rather fuppofes its cotuinuance by faying the Cloras w. adde d;;;t";';q by the Government long after the Lnventia "Tis true Plantns and Tere 3 of Comedy have none, but thofe -hefore them prob bly might. Moliere has now veviv'd them_,(i Fyebe A |