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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41298	A Defence of dramatick poetry being a review of Mr. Collier's View of the immorality and profaneness of the stage.	Filmer, Edward, b. ca. 1657.; Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.; Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.; Vanbrugh, John, Sir, 1664-1726.	1698 (1698)	Wing F905; ESTC R16098	47,476	128

of Ovid our Learned Observator quite forgets himself and runs off from his Theme For Ovid has nothing to say against the Stage or any Reflection or Objection against the Dramatick Presentations there His present Business to speak in the modern Dialect is only with the Pit Box and Galleries This Quotation therefore is but very indifferently rank'd under that Head viz. The Opinion of Paganism concerning the Stage He tells us indeed the Young and the Fair are to be seen at the Theatres That Beauty and High Toppings Faemina Cultissima and undoubtedly Beauty and High Virtue too Faemina Castissima may be seen in a Play-house nay and come thither too to see and be seen without any offence to Modesty And hither 't is that Ovid invites his Young Pupils in the Art of Love to forage in as he calls it And here I 'll give Mr. Collier the Point viz. That a Debauchee may pick up a Wench at those Diversions Nor is it any great wonder in so Universal a Concourse of the Young and the Fair to find some smutty Corn in so large a Field Society and Crowds upon a more sacred Ground than a Play-house are not wholly composed of Honour and Innocence but that a Carrion Crow may be catch'd even in a flock of Doves And truly had not Mr. Collier been wilfully over-sighted he would have inform'd us that Ovid was of the same Opinion For in the very immediate foregoing Verses to this Quotation he advises his Young Libertine to forage the Temples of the Gods for he may find the same Game to fly at there too And here I am sorry I must joyn with Ovid when much Diviner Altars are subject to the same Profanation 'T is not all Religion and Piety that enters a Church Door Hypocrisie and Wantonness are too often too bold Intruders And not only to see and to be seen is the height of the Devotion but possibly the Lecture and the Sermon may be sometimes made the screen to the Rover and the Wanton But Mr. Collier I hope will not infer from hence that the Church Doors should be shut up or Devotion barr'd entrance for fear of Prophanation or Hypocrisie herding in along with them 'T is true there may be a Case and a weighty one for keeping us out from Church Prayers Sacraments and what not as we find it recorded in a Learned Discourse publish'd by this Orthodox School-man called A Perswasive to Consideration tender'd to the Royalists particularly those of the Church of England Printed in the Year 1695. being a Discourse upon this Text In the Day of Adversity consider Where Page 35 we Read as follows However I am loth to leave my Church the Auditor thus Expostulating with him You say well But can you expect to find the Church where it 's peculiar Doctrines are disowned where it 's Authority is opposed and betrayed to the Secular Power Does the Being of a Church consist in Brick and Stone What would you do if Jupiter was worshipped there I hope the chiming of the Bells would not draw you to the Service of the Idol If it is urged that we may be so planted as to want the Advantage of an Orthodox Pastor What is to be done in such Circumstances Must we pray alone without the Assistance of Priest or Congregation To this Question after what has been said I think the Proverb a sufficient Return Better be alone than in ill Company If 't is farther objected That by this Principle we lose the Benefit of the Blessed Sacrament To this I answer 1. That this Objection is oftentimes no more than Pretence For if People would take that Pains which the Regard to the Institution requires it seldom happens but they might receive it from proper Hands But 2. I answer That breaking the Unity of the Church by Schismatical Communion and making our selves Partakers of other Men's Sins 1 Tim. 5. 22. is a bad Preparation for the Sacrament To break a moral Law for a positive Ordinance though never so valuable looks like robbing in order to Sacrifice And therefore when the Case is truly put a pious Desire of Receiving will be Equivalent to the Thing This being an allowed Rule in Instances of Necessity So that we cannot be said to lose the Benefit of the Blessed Sacrament though we are not so happy as to partake in the Administration Now by the same Strength of Reason he has here carry'd the Cause against the whole Church of England and Excluded his Royalists from all publick Devotion undoubtedly he may shut up the Play-house Doors and exclude 'em from all publick Diversion too The other Poet he joyns with Ovid is the Author of the Plain-Dealer This Poet in his Dedication to Lady B. some Eminent Procuress pleads the Merits of his Function and insists upon being Billeted upon Free Quarter Madam says he I think a Poet ought to be as free of your Houses as of the Play-houses since he contributes to the Support of both and is as necessary to such as You as the Ballad-Singer to the Pick-purse in convening the Cullies at the Theatres to be pick'd up and carried to a Supper and Bed at Your Houses This is frank Evidence and ne're the less true for the Air of a Jest. As frank as this Plain-Dealer's Evidence is here 's nothing but what with a very Grave face of Truth and in as earnest a Jest might have been said upon any other Publick places of Meeting viz. the Dancing-Schools the Mall the Parks the Gardens and where not And unless this Man of Morals would have a Law made to suppress all Places of general Resort and confine Mankind to Cells and Caves I know not well how he will prevent all these Enormities that the Plain-Dealer has here rallied upon Nay this I will positively averr That both the Plain-Dealer and Mr. Collier's Argument on this side lies much stronger against any other publick Place of Resort than the Play-house For if Wantonness and Lewdness will creep into all Publick Societies though of never so innocent a Foundation the Theatres lie least obnoxious to that Danger For in all the other forementioned Places of Resort we make our own Diversion have no Entertainment but what we give our selves and consequently as Idleness is the Mother of Lust and when We have least to do the Devil has most we lie more open to Temptation and Irregular Desires than we can do in a Play-house where the Diversion is all found to our Hands and the Auditor has both his Eyes and his Ears so employ'd and is so much taken up with either the Pity and Concern for the Distresses of Tragedy or a Mirth and Delight from the Pleasantry of Comedy that he has hardly the Leisure to rove after any Imaginations of his own And therefore if our Platonick Author is for banishing of Plays for this only Grievance within the Walls of a Play-House he may as justly Vote for the rooting up a Garden