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A fault committed here deserves no scorn,If we act well the parts to which we're born.
To Mr. Killegrew, upon his altering his Play Pandora, from a Tragedy into a Comedy, be­cause not approv'd on the Stage.
Sir, you should rather teach our Age the wayOf judging well, than thus have chang'd your Play.You had oblig'd us by employing Wit,Not to Reform Pandora, but the Pit.For as the Nightingale, without the ThrongOf other Birds, alone attends her Song:While the lowd Daw, his Throat displaying, drawsThe whole assembly of his Fellow-Daws.So must the Writer, whose productions shouldTake with the Vulgar, be of vulgar mould:

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