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BG.727.007
12-19 Jun 1727:11 (394)
London, March, 9. . . They write from Cambridge, that a
great man, who lately made an edition of Terence, so
threatened and terrified the young actors, that they durst
not perform the comedy on the first of March as was
intended; what occasion'd this strange step is matter of
great speculation. His friends give out that it was because
they did not pronounce it according to the rules of metre
which he had laid down; but this reason is so ludicrous as
to occasion nothing but laughter. Others more sagely guess,
that he had such ill luck, and so cold a reception by his
edition, that he had taken an aversion to the author: And
others remark that cautious men hate every thing that
favours of politics in doubtful times; and for this they
instance in the behaviour of a great man about the time of
the last rebellion in Scotland. However it be, all
dispassionate persons think it great pitty that an exercise
ordered by the statutes of the college, and tending so much
to the improvement of the youth, and which was design'd as a
compliment to her Royal Highness, should have been hindred
through pique and whimsie. But we hear the epilogue which
was drawn up for the occasion, will be publish'd in the
Spectator which will shortly be revived.
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