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MG-A(G.768.027
19 May 1768:12,13,21,22,23,31,32,33,41,42,43 [ending in :11
of the supplement] (1184)
[3 lines from Juvenal, translated:]
Once more Crispinus, call'd upon the stage,
(Nor shall once more suffice) provokes my rage:
A monster, to whom every vice lays claim,
Without one virtue to redeem his game.
Feeble and sick, yet strong in lust alone.
Cruel it wou'd be, honest, honest Iago, to filch from thee
the smallest particle of thy good name; it wou'd make thee,
poor indeed! -As the Bystander has, at length, discover'd,
that a bad life hath subjected him to reproach, his
resolution that a future good one, shall refute all personal
invective, is very prudent and laudable. . . [1/2 column,
digressing into definition of "drunk" and "tipsy"]
To avoid misconstruction, I used the word tipsy, in which
condition, the Bystander may not only stand and walk, but
dance too, and talk very---shrewdly, especially to the
women. . . [4 columns, middle of :31]
The sight of an elephant, dancing a jig, wou'd doubtless,
be very droll; but don't you think it wou'd be greatly
heighten'd, if the tune were played by a monkey on his bass
viol?
How satisfactorily does he get over the charge of
misquoting the Act of Assembly? Not by denying it, nor by
attempting to justify his pretty argument about right and
remedy; but by breaking out into this impotent exclamation,
which proves just as much as one of his ballads. . . [1 1/2
columns, top of :33]
When it was imputed to Terence, that his plays had been
written by Laelius and Scipio, he was so agreeably flatter'd
by the supposition, implied by the reproach, that what he
had composed was not beneath their pens, that he suffer'd it
to prevail without contradiction; . . .
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