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Show Defemeq by .fl)B' Qta.ge' yy,), And Horace might be of his Opinion, fo \eRy,, ought' we know to the contrary delis o Laftly. Horace "having expre[]{y men tioned the beginning and progrels of Comiedy,g difcov%ers himfelfi moHirs e Wofurllly: H advifes a Poet to form his Work upo ¢ X e e, g the Precepts of Socrates and Plato, an o the: Models of Moral Philofophy. Thi il Cos . VS the way to ‘preferve Decency, an - toaffign'a proper Fate and Behaviourto ; it every Charaiter. Now if Horace woul piteln have his Poer govern'd by the Maxims o ntedfor Moiality, he muft oblige him toSobriet o of Conduét,anda juft diftribution of Re(nlbgen s wards, and Punifhments (s 1 Mr, Dryden makes Homewards, an [leanien: & endleavours to fortifie himfelf in Moder w0 it Authority He lets us know ‘that Be s \Xi Johnfon after whom he may be prowd ro Err N Loty - géves him more than en w ¢ s Juw i example of thi Comduét s That in the Alchimift is notorins, F 'Where' neither Face nor his Mafter are™ correted according to their Demerits But how Proud foever Mr. Dryder ma oo ot Deof an Errour, he has not fo" much o H p e h e d a J h f n *he (o B Inftance of Face &c. Inthe Alchimift i [e{ el Yather motorious againft his Purpofe the flg?fiw gp,(;f for it' 3P":""'@'thcm For Face did not "Council his Mafte : bfim". i Lovewit to debauch the Widdow; neithe i |