The mother-in-law, or, The doctor the disease : a comedy.

  • Miller, James, 1706-1744.
Date:
1734
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The mother-in-law, or, The doctor the disease : a comedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PROLOGUE. Spoken by Mr. MILLS, Senior. 1'N fame fair Garden, where the vernal Showers . Have blefs'd the Soil, and rais'd the blooming Flowers^ the anxious Lover walks with curious Eye9 And marks and culls 'em as he paffis hy j From each gay Border he file61 s the heft, And forms a Nofigay for his Flora’* Breaft* With equal Pie a fare, and with equal Care9 From the rich Freafarcs of the great M oliere* Fhe Author of Fo-night has hore away The various Parts which form the following Play % No Merit to himfilf he dares to claim j And hopes you'll think that he defirves no Blame* But O ! ’tis hold, in this cenforious Age9 Fo dare to bring pure Nature -on the Stage 5 When Fafte and Writing both are funk fa low9 Fhat nought's produc'd or lik'd hut Song and Shew. In Johnfon’j, Fletcher’*, and great Shakefpear’* Days9 Fo Senfe and Virtue Poets tun'd their Lays9 For Senfe and Virtue then were fare of Praifi: Genius was then the Soul of Poefy 5 Nature the Miftrefs, always in its Eye % And Wit the Maid9 whom it addrefs'd her hy* But in this fcrihling,, Monfter-breeding Age9 Nature and Senfe are banijh'd from the Stagey Fo charm the Eye or Ear is made the whole, And none or dares % or aims to touch the Soul: For