An Evening's Love, or the Mock-Astrologer: Acted at the Theater Royal, by His Majesties Servants

Excerpt from An Evening's Love, or the Mock-Astrologer: Acted at the Theater Royal, by His Majesties ServantsI admire ana'applanal him with themfelwt in t'heir'n cl, by telling yon they éxtoll Ben, Johnfon't way, would infinntte to yootthat. They can pro: é't'ice' it.' For any part I' declare that I want judgement to imitate him and/hon'd think it a great impatience in my [elf to attempt'it, To make men appear pleafantly ria'imlowx on the Stage was, at I hafzge feta, his Minot 3 and in thi; he neededi'not the atomen of wit; but that of judgement. For the charathert'ana' 'rep'refentationi of folly are only the ej'ec'ts of obferwtion and obfervation is an ej'ec't ofjnag Some ingentoete men, for whom I have a particular e/teem, have thought I have mnch infar'a' Ben, Johnfon when I have? Not al low'al his wit to he extraordinary but they confound what it witty with what it pleafant. Pie'efant, he mdfl want'reafon who denyer not properly wit, or the fltarpnef: of conceit; of folly whichi confefs to be excellent in it's hind, bnt not to beef that htncl which they pretend;~ Tet ifwe will believe (mihtilian inhis: chapter'de'movendo rift], he gives his opinion. Lowing wordy. Stulto reprehende'r'e facillimum e ridicola 8: a deril'u non procul abefi rifus: fed rem' urbanem facit aliqua ex nobis'adjeétio. -ana']ome perhap; won'el be apt to fay'of Johhfon at it was foiciof Demofihenes 5 Non difplicniffe illi jocos; fed non contig1ffe,x1.wiil' not deny but that I approve mofl the mixt wayefcomea'y; that which n neither all wit, nor 'all humour, blet the refalt of both, little of homeier as Fletcher jhewe, nor [0 little Johnfon. Neither all cheat, with which the befi Playes of the one are fll'd, nor all adoentnrex which ie the common praiiice of the bther, I would have the charafiert kept cit/lantfrom inter faring with each other; which it more than Fletcher or Shakefpeat did but I would have more of the Urb'ana, venofla, fall's, faceta and the ref} which Qgimilian rec/tent of at the ornament: ofwit; and theft are extremely wanting in Bensjohnfcn; 'atfar repartie inpar ticnlar; at it is the my fool of con'oerfation, foit is the gre'atefl grace ofcomealy, where it it proper to the Charaétert there maybe myth of acutenefi in a thing well [aids bnt'there it more, in a quick reply: font, enim, longe venulhora omnia in refpondendo quim in pro vocando. Of one thing! Eta.