154 ' ^f^y on MaJJinger. 



And ramm'd with bullets of her fparkling eyes, 

 OF all the bulwarks that defend y lur fenfes 

 Could batter none but that which guards your fight. 

 But 



_....- when you feel her touch and breath 



Like a /oft luejiern luind, 'when it glides o'er 



Arabia, creating gums and f pices. 



And in the van, the iieftar of her lips 



Which you mull tafte, brings the battalia on. 



Well arm'd, and ftrongly lin'd with her difcoarfe, 



Hyppolitus himfelf would leave Diana, 

 To follow fuch a Venus. 



New Way to pay old Debts. Aft. 



What pity, that he fhould ever write fo extrava- 

 gantly, who could produce this tender and deli- 

 cate image, in another piece : 



What's that? Oh! nothing but the whifp'ring wind. 

 Breathes thro' yon churlilh hawthorn, that grew rude. 

 As if it chid the gentle breath that kifs'd it. 



Old Law. Aft. 



I wifh it could be added to MafTinger's juft 

 praifes, that he had preferved his fcenes from the 

 impure dialogue which difgufls us in moft of 

 our old writers. But we may obferve, in defence 

 of his failure, that feveral caufes operated at that 

 time to produce fuch a dialogue, and that an 

 author who fubfilled by writing was abfolucely 

 fubjedted to the influence of thofe caufes. The 

 manners of the age permitted great freedoms in 

 language J the theatre was not frequented by the 

 beft company ; the male part of the audience was 



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