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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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And so much by way of Prose, I shall only now give the Reformer a
little further Advice, in return of his, in my Lyrical way, which is in
a Fable of _A Dog and an Otter_; and to turn his own words upon him, the
Citation may possibly be of some service to him, for if not concern'd in
the Application, he may at least be precaution'd by the Moral. I find he
knows I can sing to other Peoples sense, I'll try now if I can make him
sing to mine: And when he Diverts, or is Diverted with _Vox_, then,
_Preterea nihil_.

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_Maxims_ and _Reflections_

upon

PLAYS.


(_In Answer to a Discourse, Of the Lawfullness
and Unlawfullness of PLAYS. Printed
Before a late PLAY Entituled,
BEAUTY in DISTRESS_.)



Written in FRENCH by
the Bp. of MEAVX.

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