The Author’s Farce —— With a Puppet-Show, Call'd the Pleasures of the Town; As Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane

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ISBN: 9781333037291 出版年：2016 页码：73 Henry Fielding Forgotten Books

Bred in Democritus his laughing Schools, Ou'r Author flies jad Heraclitus' Rules No T ears, no Terror plead in his Behah The aim of Farce is hut to malee you laugh. Beneath the Tragich or the Comich Name, Farces and Puppet {hows ne'er mifs of Fame. Since then, in horrow'd Dry}, they' foe plea/2d the Condemn them not, appearing in their own.