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Rh well writ, is disfigur'd by a dull Love-Plot, which preads a certain Languor over the whole, that quite murders it. Cutom of introducing Love at random and at any rate in the Drama, pas'd from Paris to London about 1660. with our Ribbons and our Peruques. The Ladies who adorn the Theatrical Circle, there, in like Manner as in this City, will uffer Love only to be the Theme of every Converation. The judicious Mr. Addion had the effeminate Complaiance to often the Severity of his dramatic Character o, as to adapt it to the Manners of the Age; and from an Endeavour to pleae, quite ruin'd a Mater-Piece in its kind. Since his Time, the Drama is become more regular, the Audience more difficult to be pleas'd, and Writers more correct and les bold. I have een ome new Pieces that were written with great Regularity, but which at the ame Time were very flat and inipid. One would think that the Englih had been hitherto form'd to produce irregular Beauties only. The hining Rh