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BEP(F.771.094
16 Sep 1771:11,12 (1877)
A pamphlet has lately appeared in this part of the country
intitled "Brief Remarks on the Satyrical Drollery at
Cambridge," &c in which the author has attempted to
represent the humorous part of the entertainment of
commencement day as a mean, wicked, ill-timed, antic
performance. . . [38 more lines]
Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time,
Some that will evermore peep thro' their eyes
And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper,
And others of such vinegar aspect,
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When Satyre flies abroad on falshood's wing,
Short is her life and impotent her sting;
But when to truth ally'd, the wound she gives
Sinks deep and to remotest ages lives.
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When the celebrated Moliere's Tartuffe or Mock Doctor was
brought upon the stage in France, the clergy immediately
took the alarm, and thro' their unlimited influence in that
priest-ridden Kingdom they obtained an arret of Parliament
and caused the play to be burnt by the common hangmen: while
all wise men acknowledged and applauded the just satyre, and
highly esteemed its immortal author. . . [18 more lines]
Divines will always look with envious eyes
On ev'ry genius that attempts to rise,
And pausing o'er a pipe with doubtful nod,
Give hints that players ne'-r believe in God:
So clowns on scholars as on wizards look,
And take a folio for a conj'ring book."
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and for the next, it is humbly proposed that a farce,
intitled Democritus and Heraclitus, may be acted for the
entertainment of the ladies and gentlemen; it contains but
two acts, and is sold at the sign of the weeping-babe &
gingerbread.
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