Excerpt from A Short View of the Immorality of the Profaneness of the English Stage: Together With the Sense of Antiquity Upon This Argument In Tranflaci'ng the Fathers, 1 have endeavour'ol to keep Cloie to their-mean ing: However, in form: few plates, I have taken the Liberty of throwing in a Word or Two To clear the Senfe, to preferve' the, Spirit of the Original, and keep the Engliflx upon it' Legt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.