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230 Ears. His Tryal is now extant.

Italians are far from attempting to cat a Blemih on the Opera, or to excommunicate Signior Seneino or Signora Cuzzoni. With regard to my elf, I cou'd preume to wih that the Magitrates wou'd uppres I know not what contemptible Pieces, written againt the Stage. For when the Englih and Italians hear that we brand with the greatet Mark of Infamy an Art in which we excell; that we excommunicate Perons who receive Salaries from the King; that we condemn as impious a Spectacle exhibited in Convents and Monateries; that we dihonour Sports in which Lewis the Fourteenth, and Lewis the Fifteenth perform'd as Actors; that we give the Title of the Devil's Works to Pieces which are receiv'd by Magitrates of the mot evere Character, and repreented before a virtuous Queen; when, I ay, Foreigners are told of this inolent Conduct, this Contempt for the Royal Authority, and this Gothic Ruticity which ome preume to call Chritian verity;