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, the uperannuated Senator plays, in his Mires's Preence, all the apih Tricks of a lewd, impotent Debauchee who is quite frantic and out of his Senes. He mimicks a Bull and a Dog; and bites his Mitres's Legs, who kicks and whips him. However, the Players have truck thee Buffooneries (which indeed were calculated merely for the Dregs of the People) out of Otway's Tragedy; but they have till left in Shakepear's Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), the Jokes of the Roman Shoemakers and Coblers, who are introduc'd in the ame Scene with Brutus and Caius. You will undoubtedly complain, that thoe who have hitherto dicours'd with you on the Englih Stage, and epecially on the celebrated Shakepear, have taken Notice only of his Errors; and that no one has tranlated any of thoe trong, thoe forcible Paages which atone for all his Faults. But to this I will anwer, that nothing is eaier than to exhibit in Proe all the illy Impertinencies which a Poet may have thrown out; but that 'tis a very difficult Tak to