Scourers, a fet of rakes, Snow-bill, T 3, 325 3, 333 Trivia, the Goddess of streets and highways, invoked, Tea-drinkers, a neceffary caution to them, 2, 296 Thames, coaches driven over it, 2, 365 Vulcan metamorphos'd to a country farrier, 1, 253 the inventer of hobnails and fparables, 1, 203 1, 275 2, 470 Upholder, where he frequents, W Winter, the beginning of it described, Weather, figns of cold, figns of fair, figns of rainy, Witney broad-cloth proper for horsemen Wig compared to Alec's fnakes, to Glaucus's beard, what to be worn in a mist, Waterman, judicious in the weather, Winds whistling, what they foretell, H 5 I, 2 1, 133 1, 145 1, 157 I, 47 1, 202 1, 205 1, 125 1, 163 1, 169 Wall, Women, the ill confequence of gazing on them, their fignal to their fellows, 3, 311 what to do if taken by them, Wall, when to keep it, Whores, the streets where they ply, Y Yeoman, a dreadful ftory of one, 39313 3, 205 3, 259 3, 285 THE THE PREFACE. A S I am the first who bave introduced this kind of Dramatick entertainment upon the stage, I think it abfolutely neceffary to Say Something by way of Preface, not only to fhew the nature of it, but to anfer fome objections that have been already raised against it by the graver fort of Wits, and other interested people. We have often had Tragi-Comedies upon the English Theatre with fuccefs: but in that Jort of compofition the Tragedy and Comedy are in diftin&t Scenes, and may be eafily feparated from each other. But the whole Art of the Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce lies in interweaving the feveral kinds of the Drama with each other, so that they cannot be diftinguished or separated. The objections that are raised against it as a Tragedy, are as follow: Firft, As to the Plot, they deny it to be Tragical, because its Catastrophe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted Comical. Secondly, As to the Characters; that those of a Justice of Peace, a Parish-Clerk, and an Embryo's Ghost, are very improper to the dignity of Tragedy, and were never introduced by the Ancients. Thirdly, They fay the Sentiments are not Tragical, becaufe they are those of the lowest country people. Laftly, They will not allow the Moral to be proper for Tragedy, because the end of Tragedy being to fhew human |