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Rh will now hazard a random, but, at the ame Time, true Reflection, which is, that the great Merit of this Dramatic Poet has been the Ruin of the Englih Stage. There are uch beautiful, uch noble, uch dreadful Scenes in this Writer's montrous Farces, to which the Name of Tragedy is given, that they have always been exhibited with great Succes. Time, which only gives Reputation to Writers, at lat makes their very Faults venerable. Mot of the whimical, gigantic Images of this Poet, have, thro' Length of Time (it being an hundred and fifty Years ince they were firt drawn) acquir'd a Right of paing for ubllme. Mot of the modern dramatic Writers have copied him; but the Touches and Decriptions which are applauded in Shakepear, are his'd at in thee Writers; and you'll eaily believe that the Veneration in which this Author is held, increaes in Proportion to the Contempt which is hown to the Moderns. Dramatic Writers don't conider that they hould not Rh