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Show To Mr. SOUTHERN. M*y he thou haft not pleased the Box and Pit • Tet thofe who blame thy Tale, commend thy Wit\ So Terence Plotted; butfo Terence Writ. Like his thy Thoughts are true, thy Language clem Ev'n Lewdnefs is made Moral, in thy Scene. The Hearers may for want o£Nokes repine But reft fecure, the Readers will be thine. Nor was thy Laboured D r a m a damn'dor hi Hi Wl1 trm )'°*> as th* French [ay, chere enl Hut- •.,,;+/ L- J /-» •;• i-r •/-, 7 }1*d what we want of Humour, or of Wit, Out w t h a hnd Cv.l.ty i,Jm,ftd: £ up w i l h y m r i h e . N e i g h i m t s & the Fit. tr ith fuch good Manners as the * Wife did ufe %on f^e Stage, what e'er we do, or fay, W h o , not accepting, did but juft refufe. There was a Glance at parting; fuch a Look As bids thee not give o'er for one Rebuke. But if thou wou'dft be feen, as well as read; Copy one living Author, and one dead: "The Standard of thy Style, let Etherege be ; For Wit, th' Immortal Spring ofWycherly. Learn 'after both, po draw fome juft Defign, And the next Age will learn to Copy thine. P R O L O G U E, Spoken by Mr. Betterton. Allants, you're welcome to our homely Cheer: If you have brought your Englifti Stomachs here-, chere entire. " T -^v) -..... - .. -- 7 -- J-J -I Vizard Masks can Jhowyou better play: i all our ?ains, we can but bring 'em in, Us you mufi take the Damfils out again: f when we've brought you kindly thus together, your Fault if you're parted by foul Weather. hope thefe natural Reafons may produce, very Whoremafer, a hindExcufe all our Faults, the Ton's, and the Players Mil pardon ours, if you can find out theirs. [To'heMaskerj to to the gentler Men, who love at fight, ind never care to come to dofer fight, Weave provided work for them to night. rith fafity they may draw their Cannon doum, tod into a Surrender bomb the Town. hfe ii. * The Wile in the Play, Mrs. Friendall, 'fire, three deep, into the Ladies Hearts. I etch Man here finds his Diverfion, not the damning'of our Play be om *to the Ladies who muft fit it out, "hear usjrate, and fee the Oglers fhoot, •&ng their Favour, we have this to fay, fpes oj< their Protection for the PI J ' p j) M';" a M"fek-meeting every Day. Dramatis |