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182 and might be compar'd to many Plays which I have een in France that drew Crowds to the Play-houe, at the ame Time that they were intolerable to read; and of which it might be aid, that the whole City of Paris exploded them, and yet all flock'd to ee 'em repreented on the Stage. Methinks Mr. de Muralt hould have mention'd an excellent comic Writer (living when he was in England) I mean Mr. Wycherley, who was a long Time known publickly to be happy in the good Graces of the mot celebrated Mitres of King Charles the Second. This Gentleman who pas'd his Life among Perons of the highet Ditinction, was perfectly well acquainted with their Lives and their Follies, and painted them with the stronget Pencil, and in the truet Colours. He has drawn a Miantrope or Man-hater, in Imitation of that of Moliere. All Wycherley's Strokes are tronger and bolder than thoe of our Miantrope, but then they are les delicate, and the Rules of Decorum are not o well