A Voyage to 



De Pelerins, dit on, une troupe grojjiere 

 En public a Paris y monta la premiere, 

 Et fotement zele'e en [a fimplicite, 

 Jotia les Saints, la Vierge, & Dieu par piete. 

 Le [avoir a la fin dijjipant t ignorance, 

 Fit voir de ce projet la devote imprudence. 



Defpreaux Art. Poet. Chant III. 



Our pious Fathers, in their godly Age, 

 As impious and prophane, abhorr'd the Stage. 

 A Troop of filly Pilgrims, as 'tis faid, 

 Foolifhly Zealous, fcandaloufly play'd 

 The Angels, God, the Virgin and the Saints, 

 Inftead of Heroes and of Love Complaints ; 

 At laft, right Reafon did her Laws reveal, 

 And Ihew^ the Folly of their ill-plac'd Zeal. 



As for the particular Faults in that Piece, the Diftanceof 

 Time and Place therein is fliocking. S. Alexius in the firft 

 and laft Ad is at Rome, and during the fecond he is feveral 

 Years vifiting the Holy Land ; however, that Variety is not 

 look'd upon as a Fault among the Spaniards, as Defpreaux 

 has obferv'd in his Art of Poetry, in thefe Words 3 



Un Rimeur, fans peril, de la les Pyrennees, 

 Sur la Scene, en un jour, renferme des annees. 

 La fouvent le Heros d'un Spectacle grojfier. 

 Enfant au premier Atte, eft barbon au dernier. 

 Mais nous, que la raifon a fes regies engage, 

 Nous voulons qu'avec art Faction fe menage : 

 QUen un lieu, qtien un jour, un feul fait accompli, 

 Tfienne jufqu d la fin le Spectacle tempVu 



A SpanifJj Poet may, with good Event, 

 In one Day's Space whole Ages represent. 

 There, oft the Heroe of a wandring Stage 

 Begins a Child, and ends the Play at Age; 



But 



