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any, fuch as not to drown or obfcure the emphatick 
Expreffions (like what v^q cdW Recitative -Mufick) will 
work i!rangely upon the Ear, and move Affedions fuita- 
ble to the Tune and Ditty ; (whether Brisk and Pleafanr, 
or Soft and Pitiful, or Fierce and Angry, or Moderate 
and Sedate) efpecially if attended with a Gerture and 
Aftion fuitabie. (For 'tis well known, that fuitable Aft- 
ing on a Stage, gives great Life to the Words.) Now all 
this together (which were all Ingredients in what they 
called Mufick) muft needs operate ftrongly on the Fan- 
cies and AfFeflions of ordinary People, unacquainted 
with fuch kind of Treatments. For, if the deliberate 
reading of a Romance (when well penn'd) will produce 
Mirth, Tears, Joy, Grief, Pitty, Wrath or Indignation, 
fuitable to the refpe<flive Intents of it, much more wo«Id 
it fo do, if accompanied with all thofe Attendants. 
5*. You will ask perhaps, Why may not all this be 
now done, as well as that > I anfwer, no doubt it may^ 
and with like Effecfl, if an Addrefs be made, in proper 
Words with moving Arguments, in juft Meafures (Poe- 
tical or Rhetorical) with the Emphatick Words, Words 
ftt in iignal Places, pronounced with a good Voice, and 
a true Accent, and attended with a decent Gefture; and 
all thefe fuitably adjufted to the Paffion, Affe<Jlion, or 
temper of Mind, particularly defigned to be produc'd^ 
(be it joy. Love, Grief, Pitty, Courage or Indignation) 
will certainly now, as well as then, produce great Effects 
upon the Mind, efpecially upon a Surprize, and where 
Perfons are not otherwife pre-engag'd : And if fo ma- 
naged as that you be (or feem to be) in earneft and, if 
not over-aded by apparent Affeftation. 
6. We 
