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tulé Ilistrio-Mastrix (imprimé en 1G33 ), d’où j’ex-trais la diatribe suivante pour votre grand amuse-ment.

Tliere is scarce one devil in liell, liardly a notoriossin or sinner upon earth, either of modem or antienttimes, but batli some part or other in our Stage-plays.

O, that our players, our play-hounters would nowseriously consider, that the persons whose parts,whose sins they act and see, are even tben gelling inlhe eternal fiâmes of hell for these particular sins oftheyrs, even llien, whiles they are playing of thesesins, these parts of theyrs on the stage. Oh ! that theywould remember now the sighs, the groans, the tears,the anguish, weeping and gnashing of teeth, the criesand shrieks that these wickednesses causes in hell,whiles they are acting, applauding, committing andlaughing at them in the playhouse !

SIXIÈME LETTRE.

Mon très-cher ami, je me trouve ce matin commeun homme qui aurait sur la tête une couronne depavots dont l’inllueuce endormirait toutes ses pensées.Maussade, je secoue parfois mon chef, et quelques

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