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Man that had a very Coure Voice, but an Excellent Muique-Room, would be till Practiing in that Chamber, for the Advantage of the Eccho. He took uch a Conceit upon't,that he mut needs be hewing his Parts upon a Publick Theatre, where he Performed So very ill, that the Auditory His'd him off the Stage, and threw Stones at him.

THERE's a Great Difference betwixt an Orator in the Schools, and a Man of Bus'nes upon a Stage of Action. Many a Man that Paes for a Philoopher in Private, behaves himelf mot Ridiculouly in Publick; as what's more Uncouth (with Repect be it poken) then a Pedant out of his Element? There are Flattering Chambers, as well as Flattering Glaes, and the One Helps out a Bad Voice, as the Other Countenances an ill Favour'd Face: That is to ay, the One Drowns the Harhnes of the Pipe, as the Other Covers, or Diguies the Cournes of the Complexion. But Men mut not think to Walk upon Thee Stilts, if they come to et up in Publick once; The One, for an Italian Capon, the Other, for an Englih Beauty: Where