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Rh plot would be represented, and, of course, the same dialogue would be sufficient, as far as it would be remembered. No doubt, the dramas consisted of "gross buffooneries," because the actors were buffone; but there was room for the display of ready talent; and if a few of the pieces had been left upon record, we should most likely have found that they had something else to recommend them besides the coarseness of their jokes, delivered in the dialect of Italy peculiar to each of the characters.