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Via this you still deserve it. this may make it flourish with eternal eco-friendly! it will guard your reminiscence, expensive to all enthusiasts of our immortal Shakespeare! this can encourage destiny Amenders of that Poet, and be as a Land-Mark to them to flee the Perils that wait upon such hardy daring makes an attempt! (40–7) 104. Elizah Haywood at the diversifications of Romeo and Juliet 1745 From the feminine Spectator, booklet VIII (1745), ii, pp. 90–3. the feminine Spectator was once edited among 1744 and 1746 by way of Elizah Haywood (1693? –1756), who wrote performs, poems and various romances. If the attention should be chuffed with seeing, or the Ear with listening to continuously an identical issues persistently repeated, it needs to be own’d there are various outdated performs which the easiest of our sleek Poets wouldn't might be have the ability to excel; yet Nature delights in type, and tho’ it might be unjust and ungrateful to strip the Laurels from the Brows of Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Dryden, Otway, Lee, Congreve, and a number of other deservedly popular Authors, to beautify those that shall be triumphant them, but we like to determine a Genius the expansion of our personal instances and may locate adequate Trophies for the benefits of such with none harm to their Predecessors. these so much impatient for brand spanking new performs wish no longer, notwithstanding, that these which for thus a long time have persisted to divert and please may still 162 THE severe background now be sunk and buried in Oblivion. The Poets i've got mention’d will constantly shield a similar Charms, and could achieve this but extra have been they much less usually exhibited. a few of Shakespeare’s Comedies and all his Tragedies have Beauties in them virtually inimitable; yet then it needs to be confessed that he occasionally gave a unfastened to the Luxuriancy of his Fancy, in order that his performs could be in comparison to high-quality Gardens choked with the main appealing vegetation yet choaked up with Weeds throughout the too nice Richness of the Soil. these, for this reason, that have had these Weeds pluck’d up by way of the skilful arms of his Successors are a lot the main based Entertainments. For which cause i used to be a bit surprized whilst I heard that Mr. Cibber junior had reviv’d the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet because it used to be first acted; Caius Marius being an analogous Play, merely moderniz’d and clear’d of a few a part of its garbage via Otway,1 showing to a lot more virtue that it's not to be doubted yet that the admirable writer, had he lived to work out the Alteration, might were hugely grateful and chuffed with it. It have been certainly to be needed that a similar sort Corrector were a little bit extra critical, and lop’d off not just a few superfluous Scenes yet complete Characters which fairly serve to decrease than upload to the Piece, quite these of the Nurse and Sulpitius, neither of them being the least bit conducive to the behavior of the delusion, and all they are saying favouring extra of Comedy than Tragedy. it really is, methinks, inconsistent with the nature of a Roman Senator and Patrician to undergo himself to be entertained for part an Hour including such idle Chat as could scarcely go between previous girls in a Nursery.