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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41299	A farther defence of dramatick poetry being the second part of the review of Mr. Collier's View of the immorality and profaneness of the stage / done by the same hand.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.; Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724. Defence of dramatick poetry.; Filmer, Edward, b. ca. 1657.; Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.	1698 (1698)	Wing F906; ESTC R202014	30,686	82

Stage But as a great part of that work has been done to my hands by the Ingenious Author of the Relapse I shall rather only make some general Observations of that part of Mr. Colliers Remarks Here I must acknowledge there 's some looser expressions of that kind that may admit of Censure and Correction yet Mr. Collier's Charge against them is too vehemently aggravated with too Remote and Uncharitable Misrepresentations Besides all those too loose or Libertine Expressions are charged as the private Sense of the Author when a great many of them are only the Language of the Libertine Characters that speak them For Instance the Lord Foppington says Sunday is a vile Day I must confess a Man must have little to do at Church that can give an account of the Sermon Is this any laughing at the Publick Solemnities of Religion as if 't was a ridiculous piece of Ignorance to pretend to the Worship of God Does this Expression of Lord Foppington amount to any more then that he has no kindness for Sundays because they baulk his Course of Pleasures and that if he goes to Church 't is not to mind the Sermon but to Ogle the Ladies And is this answer to Amanda any thing but what the Audience would expect from a Fop of his Vanity And what the Author therefore has but honestly put into his Mouth And is it for that Reason the Sense of the Author himself The Fool in the Psalmist says in his Heart there is no God but I hope Mr. Collier will not tell us the Psalmist himself says so If the Poet was accountable for every Excursion Levity Loosness or Atheism it self from every Character in his Play the Author of the Libertine Destroy'd if he were alive would have a long Black Scroll to answer for in his Don John and his two wicked Companions at least if Mr. Collier had the handling of him But granting the Poets have Launch'd a little too boldly and have put the Libertine Language in the wrong Mouths yet still Mr. Collier has made but a very lame Collection of them when the greater part of his Quotations have so little shadow of offence that nothing but Mr. Colliers Magnifying-glass can discover them For Instance Sir Sampson in Love for Love says Nature has been provident only to Bears and Spiders This says Mr. Collier is the Authors Paraphrase on the 139th Psalm And thus he gives God thanks for the Advantage of his Being The Play advances from one Wickedness to another c. Could any Interpreter but himself have made this Gloss upon that poor Text or who but the bold Mr. Collier durst have brought God himself upon the Stage from so Innocent an Expression But Mr. Collier's Readers are desired not to be over-surpriz'd at so many Visionary Profanations and Blasphemies as hee 'll meet with through that Learned Author For to tell you the Truth the Arguing part is not so much his Business as the Conjuring His Work is not so much to find the Devils upon the Stage as to raise 'em there In the Fourth Act of Don Sebastian Mustapha Dates his Exaltation to Tumult from the second Night of the Month Abib Thus you have the Holy Text abused by Capt. Tom and the Bible torn by the Rabble The design of this Liberty I can't understand unless it be to make Mustapha as considerable as Moses and the prevalence of a Tumult as much a Miracle as the Deliverance out of Egypt Here Mustapha a Moor of Barbary for nothing but speaking a word in his own Language and calling the Month Abib in its proper Name because forsooth that Month is mention'd in Scripture is therefore Tearing of Bibles setting up new Prophets equaling Moses and Bantering of Miracles Risum teneatis Amici If every Word in the Bible upon its admission into Holy Writ is so exalted and incorporated into the Divinity that it must never descend into the World again nor enter profane Lips or Humane Conversation under the premunire of Irreligion or Blasphemy at this rate a Man must have a care how he sends for his Cloak or a Scholar for his Books especially upon a Stage for fear of Burlesquing of Scripture Bantering of Apostles and even profaning the very Gospel it self and Why Does not St. Paul in his Divine Writ desire Timothy to bring him his Cloak his Books and his Parchments Well to shew my Reader that Mr. Collier is not the only Muster-Master General of the Black List of the Stage Blasphemies I durst lay him a Wager that I 'll cull him a whole Set of them out of the poor Innocent Sir Martin Marral as topping ones as the very biggest in his whole Collection and all founded upon as Natural a Construction c. And possibly in so doing I may give my Reader a little clearer Light into the Strength and Dint of Mr. Collier's Eloquent Reasoning upon that Subject To begin therefore at the lower Form and so rise Gradatim Warner says of Sir Martin His Follies are like a Sore in a Surfeited Horse Cure it in one place and it will break out in another Is not this plain Burlesque upon Holy Scripture and a profane Ralley upon the Divine Solomon himself For does not he tell us Bray a Fool in a Morter yet his foolishness will not depart from him And tho' Mr. Dryden for his incurable Fool does not borrow the Words he borrows the plain Sense from Solomon and his disguising the Language to speak like Mr. Collier is too thin a Screen to cover the profanation Sir Martin I am resolved to Kill my self Warner You are Master of your own Body Sir Martin Will you let me damn my Soul Warner At your pleasure as the Devil and you can agree about it What does this Author make a Jest of Damnation The most serious Consideration of Death and Eternity thus trifled with Is there no Diversion without insulting the God that made us the Goodness that would save us and the Power that can Damn us page 95. I can't forbear expressing my self with some warmth under these provocations what Christian can be unconcern'd at such Intollerable Abuses page 80. Lord Dartmouth to Mrs. Christian. Pretty Innocence let me sit nearer to you you don't understand what Love I bear you I vow it is so pure my Soul 's not sullied with one spot of Sin Were you a Daughter or a Sister to me with a more Holy Flame I could not Burn. How now What is this Hypocrite Libertine in seducing his Young Mrs. Courting her in the very Language of Divine Inspiration For who can burn with Holy Flames but Saints Confessors and Martyrs Nay does not the Divine Spouse the very Type of our Saviour in the Canticles all along burn with Holy Flames What a spight have these Men to the God that Made them and the Saviour that Redeemed them How do they Rebell upon his Bounty and attack him with his own Reason These Gyants in wickedness how