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The Trojan chief; who held at bay, from far 



On his Vulcanian orb, fuftain'd the war. 



JEneas thus o'erwhelm'd on ev'ry fide, 



Their firft afTault undaunted did abide; 



And thus to Laufus, loud, with friendly threatning cry'd, ( 



Why wilt thou rufti to certain death, and rage 



In ram attempts beyond thy tender age, 



Betray'd by pious Love ? 



And afterwards, 



He gnev'd, he wept, the fight an image brought 



Of his own filial love; a fadly pleafing thought." 

 But, befide the outlines of the pofture, the Defign of the pic- 

 ture comprehends in the next place the " forms effaces, which 

 are to be different ;" and fo in a Poem, or Play, muft the feve- 

 ral characters of the perfons be diftinguimed from each other. 

 I knew a Poet, whom out of refpect I will not name, who, 

 being too witty himfelf, could draw nothing but Wits in a 

 Comedy of his ; even his Fools were infected with the difeafe 

 of their Author : They overflowed with fmart repartees, and 

 were only diftinguifhed from the intended Wits, by being 

 called Coxcombs, though they deferved not fo fcandalous a 

 name. Another, who had a great genius for Tragedy, follow- 

 ing the fury of his natural temper, made every man and wo- 

 man too, in his Plays, ftark raging mad; there was not a 

 fober perfon to be had for love or money; all was tempeftuous 

 and bluftering; heaven and earth were coming together at 

 every word ; a mere hurricane from the beginning to the end; 

 and every actor feemed to be haftening on the day of judg- 

 ment ! 



" Let every member be made for its own head," fays our 

 Author, not a withered hand to a young face. So in the per- 



Y fons 



