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NYGWPB.761.142
17 Dec 1761:32 (989)
[Letter, signed] Amanda. They condemn what they do not
understand. [signed] Cic.
As there is no answer yet appeared to the piece on
theatrical entertainments (inserted in the last week's
paper) I imagine it is condemned as a piece too low to merit
an answer from the pen of a good write. Nay, should think it
unworthy of mine (being one of the female tribe) had he not
spirited up my resentment to the highest pitch, by the
defamatory treatment of my sex; in the scurrilous
insinuation on the modesty of ladies that frequent the play-
house; "saying, it has so often proved fatal to our
reputations, by criminal assignations, and lascivious
intrigues." Impudent fellow! Ought not this, ladies, to be
resented in the highest manner: Surely all must join with
me in answering in the affirmative. And now, scurrilous
sir, in the name of all my incented females, let me ask you
whether you can affirm as matter of conscience, that plays
in general will so corrupt a female mind, as to make her
lose all sense of virtue . . . I'll maintain that plays have
not this tendency. At present I can recollect but one that
there is in it a loose amour carry'd on; and that is the
Fair Penitent . . . [letter continues for 4 inches]
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