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Ha! if you will send it me, I will give you my Opinion of it; and if I can make any Alterations in it that will be for its Advantage, I will do it freely. Witmore. Alterations, Sir? Mar. jun. Yes, Sir, Alterations I will maintain it, let a Play be never so good, without Alteration it will do nothing. Wit. Very odd indeed. Mar. jun. Did you ever write, Sir? Wit. No, Sir, I thank Heav'n. Mar. jun.
At which moment enters the caustic, generous Witmore, belabouring the profanity, the scurrility, the immodesty, the stupidity of the age with one hand, the while he pays his friend's rent with the other; and who, incidentally, is requested by that irascible genius to kick a worthy publisher down the stairs, on the latter's refusal to give fifty shillings "no, nor fifty farthings" for his play.
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