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Wycherley has also copied from Moliere another play of as singular and bold a cast which is a kind of Ecole des Femmes or School for Married Women The principal character in this comedy is one Homer a sly fortune hunter and the terror of all the City husbands This fellow in order to play a surer game causes a report to be spread that in his last illness the surgeons had found it necessary to have him made a eunuch Upon his appearing in this noble character all the husbands in town flock to him with their and now poor Homer is only puzzled about his choice However he gives the preference particularly to a little female peasant a very harmless innocent creature who enjoys a fine flush of health and cuckolds her husband with a simplicity that has infinitely more merit than the witty malice of the most experienced ladies This play cannot indeed be called the school of good morals but it is certainly the school of wit and true humour

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Sir John Vanbrugh has written several comedies which are more humorous than those of Mr Wycherley but not so ingenious Sir John was a man of pleasure and likewise a poet and an architect The general opinion is that he is as sprightly in his writings as he is heavy in his buildings It is he who raised the famous Castle of Blenheim a ponderous and lasting monument of our unfortunate Battle of Hochstet Were the apartments but as spacious as the walls are thick this castle would be commodious enough Some wag in an epitaph he made on Sir John Vanbrugh has these lines Earth lie light on him for he Laid many a heavy load on thee Sir John having taken a tour into France before the glorious war that broke out in was thrown into the Bastille and detained there for some time without being ever able to discover the motive which had prompted our ministry to indulge him with this mark of their distinction He wrote a comedy during his confinement and a circumstance which appears to me very extraordinary is that we dont meet with so much as a single satirical stroke against the country in which he had been so injuriously treated The late Mr Congreve raised the glory of comedy to a greater height than any English writer before or since his time He wrote only a few plays but they are all excellent in their kind The laws of the drama are strictly observed in them they abound with characters all which are shadowed with the utmost delicacy and we dont meet with so much as one low or coarse jest The language is everywhere that of men of honour but their actions are those of knavesa proof that he was perfectly well acquainted with human nature and frequented what we call polite company He was infirm and come to the verge of life when I knew him Mr Congreve had one defect which was his entertaining too mean an idea of his first profession that of a writer though it was to this he owed his fame and fortune He spoke of his works as of trifles that were beneath him and hinted to me in our first conversation that I should visit him upon no other footing than that of a gentleman who led a life of plainness and simplicity I answered that had he been so unfortunate as to be a mere gentleman I should never have come to see him and I was very much disgusted at so unseasonable a piece of vanity Mr Congreves comedies are the most witty and regular those of Sir John Vanbrugh most and humorous and those of Mr Wycherley have the greatest force and spirit It may be proper to observe that these fine geniuses never spoke disadvantageously of Moliere and that none but the contemptible writers among the English have endeavoured to lessen the character of that great comic poet Such Italian musicians as despise Lully are themselves persons of no character or ability but a Buononcini esteems that great artist and does justice to his merit The English have some other good comic writers living such as Sir Ric Steele and Mr Cibber who is an excellent player and also Poet Laureatea title which how ridiculous soever it may be thought is yet worth a crowns a year besides some considerable privileges to the person who enjoys it Our illustrious Corneille had not so much To conclude Dont desire me to descend to particulars with regard to these English comedies which I am so fond of applauding nor to give you a single smart saying or humorous stroke from Wycherley or Congreve We dont laugh in rending a translation If you have a mind to understand the English comedy the only way to do this will be for you to go to England to spend three years in London to make yourself master of the English tongue and to frequent the playhouse every night I receive but little pleasure from the perusal of Aristophanes and Plautus and for this reason because I am neither a Greek nor a Roman The delicacy of the humour the allusion the a proposall these are lost to a foreigner But it is different with respect to tragedy this treating only of exalted passions and heroical follies which the antiquated errors of fable or history have made sacred OEdipus Electra and such like characters may with as much propriety be treated of by the Spaniards the English or us as by the Greeks But true comedy is the speaking picture of the follies and ridiculous foibles of a nation so that he only is able to judge of the painting who is perfectly acquainted with the people it represents