A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage: Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this ArgumentCollier, Jeremy
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A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage: Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this Argument
Collier, Jeremy
Theater -- England -- Early works to 1800; Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800
_Sr._ Paul. _Hold your self contented my Lady_ Plyant,----_I find Passion
coming upon me by Inspiration_.[158] In _Love Triumphant_, _Carlos_ is by
the Constitution of the _Play_ a Christian;[159] and therefore must be
construed in the sense of his Religion. This Man blunders out this horrible
expression. _Nature has given me my Portion in Sense with a P---- to her.
&c._ The _Reader_ may see the Hellish Syllable at Length if he pleases.
This Curse is borrow'd for _Young Fashion_ in the _Relapse_.[160] The
_Double Dealer_ is not yet exhausted. _Cynthia the Top Lady grows
Thoughtful._ Upon the question she relates her Contemplation. Cynth. _I am
thinking (says she) that tho' Marriage makes Man and Wife one Flesh, it
leaves them two Fools._[161] This Jest is made upon a Text in
_Genesis_,[162] and afterwards applyed by our Saviour to the case of
Divorse. _Love for Love_ will give us a farther account of this Authors
Proficiency in the _Scriptures_. Our Blessed Saviour affirms himself _to be
the Way, the Truth, and the Light, that he came to bear witness to the
Truth, and that his Word is Truth_. These expressions were remembred to
good purpose. For _Valentine_ in his pretended Madness tells _Buckram_ the
Lawyer; _I am Truth,----I am Truth----Who's that, that's out of his way, I
am Truth, and can set him right._[163] Now a _Poet_ that had not been
smitten with the pleasure of Blasphemy, would never have furnish'd Frensy
with Inspiration; nor put our Saviours Words in the Mouth of a Madman.
_Lady Brute_, after some struggle between Conscience and Lewdness, declares
in Favour of the later. She says the _part of a downright Wife is to
Cuckold her Husband_.[164] And tho' this is _against the strict Statute Law
of Religion, yet if there was a Court of Chancery in Heaven, she should be
sure to cast him_.[165]
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