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Updated: May 21, 2025
"And this, LISIDEIUS himself, or any other, however biased to their party, cannot but acknowledge; if he will either compare the Humours of our Comedies, or the Characters of our serious Plays with theirs. CORNEILLE himself, their Arch Poet; what has he produced, except the Liar? and you know how it was cried up in France.
What was pleasant before, they have made regular. But there is not above one good play to be writ upon all those Plots. "As for their New Way of mingling Mirth with serious Plot, I do not, with LISIDEIUS, condemn the thing; though I cannot approve their manner of doing it.
Sed ut primo ad consequendos eos quos priores ducimus accendimur, ita ubi aut praeteriri, aut aequari eos posse desperavimus, studium cum spe senescit: quod, scilicet, assequi non potest, sequi desinit; praeteritoque eo in quo eminere non possumus, aliquid in quo nitamur conquirimus." LISIDEIUS concluded, in this manner; and NEANDER, after a little pause, thus answered him.
EUGENIUS was going to continue this discourse, when LISIDEIUS told him, that "it was necessary, before they proceeded further, to take a Standing Measure of their controversy.
"I shall grant LISIDEIUS, without much dispute, a great part of what he has urged against us. "For I acknowledge the French contrive their Plots more regularly; observe the laws of Comedy, and decorum of the Stage, to speak generally, with more exactness than the English. Farther, I deny not but he has taxed us justly, in some irregularities of ours; which he has mentioned.
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