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Show Lh .4 R o e v Conclnfion Ansients. 1don't {ay this part of the Entertainment 1s diretly vitious, becaufe am not willing to Cenfure at Uncertain ties. Thofe who frequent the Plsy-Houf .are the moft competent Judges : But thi I muft fay, the Performances of this kin are much too fine for the Place. T wer to be wifh'd that either the Plgys wer better, or the Maufick worfe Dm forry t fee Ar: {o meanly Proftituted: = Atheif ought to have nothing Charming in it Retinue. Tis great Pity Debauchery fhoul have the Afliftanc of afine Hand, t whet the Appetite, and play it down Now granting the P/ay-Houfe:Mufick no vitious in the Compofition, yet the defig of it isto refrefh the Ides's of the Aétion to keep Time with the Poem, and be tru tothe ‘ubjeét. ' For this Reafonamong o thers theT #zes are generally Airy and Gail Liardizing: They are contriv'd on purpof to excite a fportive Humour, and {pread iy8 ‘N },» jrfogs gt dang:;i\u il :eqm:&‘ by Doy L 01 Riick Reg L Yo'l a o s igyp Pl s Clracon i tat 10 € s 5 plfand t optk He i 3, th Gdity upon the Spirits. To banifhall Gravity and Scruple, and lay Thinking an e Diven Reflettion a {leep. This fort 'of Mufic i, 1 thisw warms the Paffions,and unlocks the Fancy s fo and makes it open to Pleafure likea Flowe Mwnytalt to the Sun. It helps a Lufcious Sentenc - to {lide, drowns the Difcords of Arheifm T doe and keeps off the Averfions of Confcience. - ‘gfi: How It throws a'Man off his Guard, make 40d o way for anill Impreffion, andis'moft ComB b modioufl /__N |