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Rh but little Pleaure from the Perual of Aritophanes and Plautus, and for this Reaon, becaue I am neither a Greek nor a Roman. The Delicacy of the Humour, the Alluion, the à propos, all thee are lot to a Foreigner. 'tis different with repect to Tragedy, this treating only of exalted Paions and heroical Follies, which the antiquated Errors of Fable or Hitory have made acred. Oedipus, Electra and uch like Characters, may with as much Propriety, be treated of by the Spaniards, the Englih, or Us, as by the Greeks. But true Comedy is the peaking Picture of the Follies and ridiculous Foibles of a Nation; o that he only is able to judge of the Painting, who is perfectly acquainted with the People it repreents. LETTER