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112212 [sic] is so only a respite of punishment; that it may be also an encrease. Tell me, were you present at a Tragedy; would you stomach it that the Atreus there, or the Thyestes; in the first or second act, should in a glorious garbe, and with a stately tread, pass through the Scenes: That they should rule there, threaten and command all? I suppose you would not, for you know that felicity is but short-liv'd: And expect that all this grandeur should finish in a fatal Catastrophe. In this Play and Fable of the World, why are you more offended with God, than you would be with any Poet? That wicked Man flourishes, and that Tyrant lives happy. Be it so; but think withall that this is but the first Act: And before possess your self inwardly with this, that tears and sorrows press on hard to overtake those joyes. This Scene shall shortly flow with blood, and then those robes of Gold, and Purple shall Rh