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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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he thinks will infallibly overcome censure
_original reads_ iufallibly

There, says he, is a description of sucking for ye
_original reads_
There, says he, .. . description of sucking for ye

And then like another Devil of a Joker runs on
_original reads_ ruus

did not his plaguee want of Memory
_so in original_

after he has been bringing forth a Litter of Mr. _Congreeves_
Epithetes, as he calls them
_original reads_
Epithetes, [blank] calls them

and incessant scalding Rain
_original reads_ incess...

He tells ye more plain in troth than wittily
_original reads_
He tells ye more plain in trot. ..an wittily

they make the Poem look like a Bitch overstock'd with Puppies, and
suck the sense almost to Skin and Bone. For a Child to suck the
Mother till the Blood follows, I think is not unreasonable, but
for a Litter of Epithetes to suck the sense of a Poem to the Skin
and Bone, is such Fustian stuff that
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