fhall be required to clap or bifs, that the Town may learn certainly when and how far they ought to be pleas'd? 8. It is fubmitted whether it would not be proper to distinguish the Council of Six by fome particular Habit or Gown of an honourable shape and colour, to which may be added a fquare Cap and a white Wand. 9. That to prevent unmarried Actreffes making away with their Infants, a competent provision be allowed for the nurture of them, who fhall for that reafon be deemed the Children of the Society; and that they may be educated according to the Genius of their parents, the faid Actreffes fhall declare upon Oath (as far as their memory will allow) the true names and qualities of their feveral fathers. A private Gentleman's Son fhall at the publick expence be brought up a Page to attend the Council of Six: A more ample provifion fhall be made for the fon of a Poet; and a greater ftill for the fon of a Critic. 10. If it be difcovered that any Actress is got with Child, during the Interludes of any Play wherein the hath a Part, it shall be reckoned a neglect of her bufinefs, and the fhall forfeit accordingly. If any Actor for the future shall commit Murder, except upon the ftage, he fhall be left to the laws of the land; the like is to be understood of Robbery and Theft. In all other cases, particularly in those for Debt, it is proposed that this, like the other Courts of Whitehall and St. James's, may be held a Place of Privilege. And whereas it has been found, that an obligation to fatisfy paultry Creditors has been a Difcouragement to Men of Letters, if any Perfon of Quality or others shall send for any Poet or Critic of this Society to any remote.quarter of the town, the faid Poet or Critic fhall freely pafs and repafs without being liable to an Arrest. 11. The forementioned Scheme in its feveral regulations may be fupported by Profits arifing from every Third-night throughout the year. And as it would be hard to fuppofe that so many perfons could live without any food (though from the former courfe of their lives, a very little will be deemed fufficient) the masters of calculation will, we believe, agree, that out of those Profits, the faid perfons might be fubfifted in a fober and decent manner. We will venture to affirm further, that not only the proper magazines of Thunder and Lightning, but Paint, Diet-drinks, Spitting-pots, and all other Neceffaries of Life, may in like manner fairly be provided for. 12. If fome of the Articles may at first view feem liable to Objections, particularly those that give fo vaft a power to the Council of Six (which is indeed larger than any entrusted to the great Officers of state) this may be obviated, by swearing those Six Perfons of his Majefty's Privy Council, and obliging them to pafs every thing of moment previously at that moft honourable Board. Art of SINKING in POETRY. That the Bathos, or Profund, is the na- 200 III. The Neceffity of the Bathos, phyfically confi- dered 202 IV. That there is an Art of the Bathos or Pro- fund 204 206 V. Of the true Genius for the Profund, and by VI. Of the feveral Kinds of Genius in the Pro- 212 213 VII. Of the Profund, when it confifts in the VIII. Of the Profund, confifting in the Circumftances, and of Amplification and Periphrafe in IX. Of Imitation, and the Manner of Imitating 221 219 CHAP. Page. X. Of Tropes and Figures; and first of the varie- 227 XVI. A Project for the Advancement of the Stage 262 |