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Excerpt from The Wise Man of the East, or the Apparition of Zoroaster, the Son of Oromases, to the Theatrical Midwife of Leicester-Fields: A Satirical Poem
Perfuadcd of the good fenfe and cultivated underftanding of the fair writer, whofe late theatrical production forms the ground-work of the prefent performance, the author labours under no dread of giving umbrage to that in telligent lady (whofe talents no perfon can hold in higher efiimation than himfelf) by the harmlefs pleafantry in which he has OC Cfion ally permitted his Mufe to indulge. He has likewife, as the reader Will perceive, made ufe of that lady's agency as the vehicle of fome juft fatire on the falfe tai'te of feveral cootem porary writers of reputed celebrity. Firmly attached to that part of the literary creed, which denies fax garzizzr, he as little grants, as the lady in quefiion can fiand in need of it, the validity of that plea, which the ingenious author of the Epilogue to the New Comedy advances in her favour to (often the rigours of criticifm. Hhas acted uprightly and from principle; and he nowmakes his appearance before the tribunal of the public, with the calm compofure and unrufiled tranquillity of a good.
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