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Show Fmumoralit Encontage ¢ thing remaining in them of the Dignity <of a Poet, but the abufed Name. Tha < now, efpecially in Stage Poetry; nothin ¢ but Ribaldry, Profanation, B/ajphemy, al ¢ Licence of Offenceto God and Man,ji ¢ practifed. clean.sh data import.tsv out README He confefles a great partio ¢this Charge is over-true, and;is forryh ¢ dares not deny it Butthen he hopesal ¢are pot embark'd in this bold Adventur ¢ for Hell. For my part ( fays he) Lcan ¢ and from a moft clear Conicience affim/ ¢ That I have ever trembled to think to¢ wards the lealt| Profanenefs, and loath' ¢ the Ufe of fuch foul,and unwafh'd Baw ¢ dry, as is now made the Food of the Sceze ¢ .--The encreafe of which Luft in Libe < ty, what Learned or Liberal Soul does no <abhor ? In whole Euterludes nothing bu ¢ the Filth of the Time is ugter'd-- wit ¢ Brothelry able to violate the Far of a ¢ gan, and Blafphemy, to turn the Blood o to Water ‘g Chriftia He continues ¢ that the' Infolence of thefe Men ha ¢ brought the Mufes nto Difgrace, an "made Poetry the loweft {corn of the Age ‘ He appeals to his Patrons the Unsverfitses ¢ that his Labour has been heretofore, an clean.sh data import.tsv out README moftly in this his lateft Work, to reduc " not only the ancient Forms, but Manner ‘ of the Seene,the Innocence and the Doc ¢ trine, which is the Buincipal €ndof Poefy ‘1 |