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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1730 Excerpt:...can claim that Name, that writes fyf With Fancy high, and bold and daring flights, And fings as nobly as his Hero fights. «k And therefore some do doubt, (though some allow) If Comedy be Poetry or no, Because it wants that Spirit, Flame, and Force, 6» And bate the Numbers, 'tis but plain Discourse: Yet often there the careful Fathers rage, They storm, and swear, and crack the trembling Stage, 'Whene'er the Stripling breaks a Matron's Door, Or beats a Pimp, or courts a jilting Whore, 6f And slights a noble Match; or stow'd with Drink, By day-light greatly fails behind his Link: And would not Pompon from bis Father fear, Were he alive, a rattle as severe? Well then, 'tie not enough to keep due Time, 70 Observe just Feet, and put plain Words in Rhime; For break the Numbers, and the Verse affords But common angry Talk, and usual Words: Thus take what I, or what Lucilius writes, Tho' now and then it storms, and sometimes bites, jf Invert the Order, and the Words transpose, No fign, as when you change, (Pfben violent Wart f Had burst their Brazen Gates, and brake the hart:) Of Poetry appears, 'tis naked Prose. J IV. But now enough, another time shall show 8a If 'tis a part of Poetry or no: For now I will enquire how Men shou'd hate This way of writing Satyr, and for what: Capri and Sulce, those Terrors of the Jay, Both hoarse with pleading, walk the Common-Hall, 8f Their green Bags stuff'd with Bills, Indictments, Breves, A mighty Terror those to Knaves and Thieves; But But yet an konist Man, that keeps his Oath, Nor robs, nor steals, may safely scorn them both: If thou'rt a Thief, as Caele and Byrrhus are, 90 I'm not like Sulce or Capri, why do'st fear, And why dread me? My Book's not set to Sale, J Thumb'd by the Rabble upon ev'ry Stall, The Rascal sc...