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Show o by the STAGE i ¢ Knavery, we pay too much for't. Som h'\slatter\l ¢ Pleafures are Childifh s Yol fage or two from Quintilian, may not b iy ok ‘Condemn the oroffer Inftances, but cut off all the Double-Entendre's ac a Blow an 16 others abo gy ¢ minable ; And upon the whole, pleafure, D¢ tnly(, ¢abfolutely {peaking, is no good Thing. . » Riig ;; And fo much for the Philofopher. An g [y, becaufe Ribaldry is ufed for Sport, a paf unfeafonable ¥ e e This Orator does not onl . i€ comes up to theRegularity of Thought and tells us ‘that the Meaning,as well asth YWords - of Difcourfe muft be unfullied.i"f;""; And in the fame Chapter he adds that ‘A ;"7 i Mg ¢ Man of Probity has always a Referv afims W o DIMPWQ‘"" s WK € 3y i Freedoms, and Converfes withi ¢ the Rules of Modefty, and Charaéter ¢ And that Mirth at the ‘expence of Vir€ pye is an Over-purchafe, Nimium - eni K\Q\‘»k\m"?f vifus pretium est [i probitatis impengio con g Vet g eQeimd Thus we fee how thefe great Mafer i ) qualify Diverfion, and tie it up to Proought 10U vifoes, an Conditions. Indee to 'mak iy owé Delight the main bufinefs of Comedy is a ¢ Fagj. 1 unireafonable and dangerous Principle: T oo opens the way to all Licentioufnefs, an oon 8 (s Confounds the dxf'cmE_tion between Mirth (e D and Madnefs For if Diverfio is th Price an a ha b muf i End Chiefferviceabl elg 14bt N Expedient muft be refufed i |