Essays on the Stage - Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Thomas D'Urfey
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him as his _Redeemer_, he does not only deserve Correction for his
wicked ingratitude, (which _especially in one of his Coat, is an immoral Cheat upon Heaven_) but to have the same punishment that another of his Coat and Kidney lately had, for a Cheat upon the Government and People. But to go on: In the next place he finds fault with my making sport with Hell, and recites six Lines, which are made of Dogril Stuff, on purpose by the Duke's Servants, who, for his diversion, Acting a kind of Farce are to fright _Sancho_ with Goblings and Furies--but to shew his own Wit in the first Onset here, he has notably made the two first Lines half nonsence. Appear ye fat Fiends that in Limbo do groan, That were, when in flesh, the same Souls as his own. Instead of-- _that wore when in flesh_, &c. You that always in _Lucifer_'s Kitchin reside, 'Mongst Sea-coal and Kettles, and grease newly Try'd, That pamper'd each day with the Garbidge of Souls, Broil Rashers of Fools for a Break-fast on Coals. [Footnote: Collier, p. 198.] Words adapted only to _Sancho_'s Clownship, course Breeding, and Kitchin Profession, and with no more intent of Impiety in them, than if one should put on a Devils Vizard to play with a Child, does he note again as horrible Prophaneness, and says he does me no wrong in't; now if he insists that Hell is too serious a thing to ridicule, why, perhaps, I |
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