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confequences which might accrue to themfelves from thence, being 

 fully convinced of the reaitude of their adion, and the falutarj 

 effects that might be derived for the benefit of the rifmg generation; 

 Lallly the whole audience deferved in my opinion, likewife to be 

 commended; for when the witty farcafms were falling from the 



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lips of their theatrical heroes, they laughed at their jokes j but 

 when they obferved that thefe fhafts of fatire were not difcharged at 

 random, but made the perfon fmart who was the. objed of their 

 inflru'aive irony, when they faw the marks of returning mode% 

 of repentance and felf-condemnat 

 fliame, and in- the copious tears 



the attempts to hide her 



tears of the poor girl ; . many an- eye was 

 moiftened, and many a heart fympathized with her; laflly, whea 



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the dramatic performance was. over,, every one. was eager to give 

 her the moft unfeigned and unfolicited marks of his eifleem and 

 friendihip,- to comfort her in her diftrefs and affliftion, to counter 

 nance her modefty and return- to her diity; and in a manner to 

 thank her for having contributed to the innocent mirth,* as 

 as to the inftrudion and the warning of her country women 



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we refled upon the want of feeling in the frequenters of our 



theaU'es, their indolence and inattention, . and 1 may add their 



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* Thanks were returned to Lucius by tlie magiiliates of a town In Thefialia, for having 

 contributed to their mirth in his Iham-tryal, ^^uUius <fe Afmo Auno^ 



