Nothing is more Brutal than to be abandon'd to Appetite; And nothing more wretched than to serve in such a Design. The _Mock-Astrologer_ to clear himself of this Imputation, is glad to give up his Principle at Last. _Least any Man should think_ (says He) _that I write this to make Libertinism amiable, or that I cared not to debase the end, and Institution of_ Comedy. (It seems then _Delight_ is not the Chief end.) _I must farther declare that we make not Vitious Persons Happy, but only as Heaven makes Sinners so._ &c. If this will hold, all's well. But _Heaven_ does not forgive without Repentance. Let us see then what Satisfaction he requires from his _Wild-Blood_, and what Discipline he puts him under. Why, He helps him to his Mistress, he Marries him to a Lady of Birth and Fortune. And now do you think He has not made him an Example, and punish'd him to some Purpose! These are frightful Severities! Who would be vitious when such Terrors hang over his Head? And does _Heaven make Sinners happy_ upon these Conditions? Sure some People have a good Opinion of Vice, or a very ill one of Marriage, otherwise they would have Charged the Penance a little more. But I have nothing farther with the _Mock-Astrologer_. And now for the Conclusion of a _Chapter_, I shall give some Instances of the _Manners_ of the _Stage_, and that with respect to Poetry, and Ceremony. _Manners_ in the Language of Poetry, is a Propriety of Actions, and Persons. To succeed in this business, there must always be a regard had to Age, Sex, and Condition: And nothing put into the Mouths of Persons which disagrees with any of these Circumstances. 'Tis not enough to say a witty Thing, unless it be spoken by a likely Person, and upon a Proper occasion. But my Design will lead me to this Subject afterwards, and therefore I shall say no more of it at present, but proceed to apply the Remark. One Instance of Impropriety in _Manners_ both Poetical and Moral, is their making Women, and Women of Quality talk Smuttily. This I have proved upon them already, and could cite many more places to the same Purpose were it necessary. But I shall go on, and give the _Reader_ some other examples of Decency, Judgment, and Probability. _Don Sebastian_ will help us in some measure. Here the _Mufti_ makes a foolish Speech to the Rabble, and jests upon his own Religion. He tells them, _tho' your Tyrant is a Lawful Emperour, yet your Lawful Emperour is but a Tyrant,----That your Emperour is a Tyrant is most Manifest, for you were born to be Turks, but he has play'd the Turk with you._ And now is not this Man fit to Manage the _Alcoran_, and to be set up for on Oracle of State? _Captain Tom_ should have had this Speech by right: But the _Poet_ had a farther Design, and any thing is good enough for a _Mufti_.