London Tatler (Newspaper) - May 3, 1709, London, Middlesex 11 Id Jly By Quicquid Homines Farrago From May 3. to May 5, 1709. May 3; has fent me a wherein he informs He had lately to write an but by lias been and has done no more but made one which he be afflicted to have wholly and begs of me to apply it to being very to fee it in the | am fo willing to help the that I have taken it but tho' his greater Genius might very we'll from I have where his His Lines are a of the Sun in which I know nothing more like than a brave Man in who bears it as he without imploring the Pity of his or being dejected with the Contempt of his As in the Cafe cf When all the Globe to Cafars Fortune Cato alone his Empire With Inborn Strength alone opposed With Heavn in to all below it Regard lefs of his or Alone fince he falls 6 Thus when the Ruler of the Genial c Behind fome Planet forms his 6 Desponding with officious i The Concave and Majick Brafs 4 Implore him to Unimportant c depending Worlds from 4 Fondly they hope their Labour may To his and his 4 he in Beams of Native Splendor 4 dark his Orb appear to humane 1 Shines to the Gods with more ' To Stars with equal Glory * Inflames their and feeds their Golden Sure to retain his known * And proves the more by This is a very lively Image but I mull take the Liberty to my the Sun a little like Phaeton He bat all the Warmth of but won't fray for his Direction of it. Avail and Deject and will never do for But he has the true Spirit in for which 1 was willing to entertain any Thing he to lend me. The Subject which he writes naturally great Reflections into the and puts us in Mind of the mix d Condition Which we Mortals are to as it varies to Good or adorns or defaces our Actions to the All which Glory and Shame mult end in what we fo much repine But Doctrines on this any other than that of living are the molt and empty of all die Labou rs of None but a Tragedian can die by and wait till he a or lays a fine Thing upon his In real this is and by Noble it will be done without the of it. Wc ice Men of all Conditions and Characters go through it with equal Resolution And if we the Speeches of the mighty and Great they can produce no more in a than Rules to make a Man a Fop on his Commend me to that natural of by an Country who the Pains of the If I once get this Breath out of my you hang me before yon put it in Ned I and fo he But it is to be from this Place you may an Account of fuch a Thing as a Play is not to be That of to Night is the that ever was The Author is my Ingenious Friend Mr. Thomas This Drama is The Modern and is a Satyr the late Spirit of The Writer had by long Experience That in very grave have been followed by Bawdry and therefore has turn d the Humour that Way with great and taken from his Audience all of by the Agitations of pretty Mrs. whom he with great made a as well as a by which on the of both Worlds with great My Friend to go on with another Work which he intends to The Modem Poets a People no lefs in their Opinions of being than the In order to he has by him many which cannot be for any thing but what he means Mr. generally writes and is wonderfully to the World in fuch This Method is what was ufed by the Old to laugh out of or promote Opinions among the My Friend has this Play is acted for his own made Two may be alfo of an In the he has in the of a Tall Man with an Hat and who gives his who before an huge The gives the Kick to the next before and ib to the End of the In this Moral and Practical you are made to That there in an no but giving the Kick you receive from one above to one below This is to a grave and melancholy but on a fudden the Tune moves and the whole Company falls into a and take Hands 5 at a certain they move and kick as kick can. This latter Performance he makes to be the of a Free State if you all mind your you may go round and round very with a Morion to your and thole you dance if you put your felves at the you only and are like Friends and From my own Apartment b May 4. Of all the Vanities under the I that of being proud of one's Birth is the At the fame fince in this by the Force of prevailing Things in which Men have no are imputed to and that I am by fome as if Bicker tho' I write was no let Uie World right in that I thai I give you my as a of ours has lent it from the Herald's It is and by the That there Women who are not nicely and Men not