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Show Wylfdid l'{m""j Concetning the Stage. «Sf‘mr & By o A o mpioge e 0t the Wm 10, b0y CIE Was mo b e Stdge ha ool Ths and Py 3 Condron, Hin of Anigi o thatfome and that Hum ot - i ik e ed tmdtvero fI og o fel PO 1 - v] bA ff% ‘have fet them above an ill pratife, tha ¢ driven them upon't And in another place, He informs u that the German Women were Guard- ), . ‘ ed againft' danger, and kept their Honour German g g S 10 U 13 a mty,‘fh ¢out of Harms way, by having no P/s- <. 19 Honfes amongft them Plays, in the Opinion of the Judicious f{},"p;fi Platark are dangerous to corrupt Young De AudiPeople; And therefore Szage Poetry when f'"dlp g it ‘grows too hardy, and Licentious, zd. par ought to be checkt. This was the Opinion of thefe Celebrated Aurhors wit refpe& to Theatres: They Charge the with the Corruption of Principles, an Manners, and lay in all imaginable Caution againft them. ~And yet-thefe Me had feldom any thing but' this World i their Scheme; and form'd their Judgments only upon Natural Light; and Com mon Experience. We {eethen to what for of Condu&t we are oblig'd. The cafei plain; Unlefs we arelittle enough to renounce our Reafon, and fali fhort of Philofophy, and live #xsder the Pitch of Hes thenifm To thefe' Teftimonies I fhal Couple - of Poets, who' both {fee Judges of the Affair in Hand he firft is ‘Owid; who in hi De Arte Amands, gives his Reader t add goo Boo underftan |