This Subject is generally treated Home, and in the most tender and passionate manner imaginable. Tis often the governing Concern: The Incidents make way, and the _Plot_ turns upon't. As matters go, the Company expect it: And it may be the _Poets_ can neither Write, nor Live without it. This is a cunning way enough of stealing upon the Blind Side, and Practising upon the Weakness of humane Nature. People love to see their _Passions_ painted no less than their _Persons_: And like _Narcissus_ are apt to dote on their own Image. This Bent of self Admiration recommends the Business of _Amours_, and engages the Inclination. And which is more, these Love-representations oftentimes call up the Spirits, and set them on work. The _Play_ is acted over again in the _Scene_ of Fancy, and the first Imitation becomes a Model. _Love_ has generally a _Party Within_; And when the Wax is prepared, the Impression is easily made. Thus the Disease of the Stage grows Catching: It throws its own _Amours_ among the Company, and forms these Passions when it does not find them. And when they are born before, they thrive extreamly in this _Nursery_. Here they seldom fail either of Grouth, or Complexion. They grow strong, and they grow Charming too. This is the best Place to recover a Languishing Amour, to rowse it from Sleep, and retrieve it from Indifference. And thus Desire becomes Absolute, and forces the Oppositions of Decency and Shame. And if the Misfortune does not go thus far, the consequences are none of the best. The Passions are up in Arms, and there's a mighty Contest between Duty, and Inclination. The Mind is over-run with Amusements, and commonly good for nothing sometime after. I don't say the _Stage_ Fells all before them, and disables the whole _Audience_: 'Tis a hard Battle where none escapes. However, Their _Triumphs_ and their _Tropheys_ are unspeakable. Neither need we much wonder at the Matter. They are dangerously Prepar'd for Conquest, and Empire. There's Nature, and Passion, and Life, in all the Circumstances of their _Action_. Their Declamation, their _Mein_ their Gestures, and their Equipage, are very moving and significant. Now when the Subject is agreeable, a lively Representation, and a Passionate way of Expression, make wild work, and have a strange Force upon the Blood, and Temper.