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fists 5 | RR rb EP EE EE On the Argument and Defign of the following Oration, V Hate’er the Modern Satires of the Stage, To jirk the Failures of a fliding Age, ` Havė lavifhly expos’d to Publick View, For a Difcharge to all from.Envy due; Here, in as lively Colours, Naked lye, With equal Wit, and much more Modeſty 5°“ Thofe Poets, with their free difclofing Arts, Strip Vice fo near to its Uncomely Parts, Their Libels prove but Leffons, and they teach Thofe very Crimes,which,they intend t'impeachs While here fo wholefom'all, tho’ ſharp to Taſte, So briskly free, yet fo refolvdly Chafte; Thé Virgin Naked as her God of Bows, May read, or hear, when Blood at higheft fows 5 Nor more expence of Blufhes then arife, Than while the Le@'ring-Matron does série To guard her Virtue and her Honour prize. _ Satire and Panegyrick, diftant be, Yet jointly here they both in one agree. Thé Whole’s a Sacrifice of Salt and Fire: è So does the Humour of the Age require, To chafe the Touch, and ſo foment Detre S As Do&trine-dandlihg Preachers lull afleep Their un-attentive pent-up,—---Fold of Sheep 3 « The Opiated Milk glews up the Brain, And Babes of Grace are in their Cradles lain; - (bz) While
