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Rh Since their own Drama yields no fairer trace

Of wit than puns, of humour than grimace.

Then let Ausonia, skill'd in every art

To soften manners, but corrupt the heart,

Pour her exotic follies o'er the town,

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down:

Let wedded strumpets languish o'er ,

And bless the promise which his form displays;