PROLOGUE. YE glitt'ring train, whom lace and yelvet bless, From grov'ling business and superfluous care, Learn here that Peace from Innocence must flow; If truths like these with pleasing language join; Ennobled, yet unchang'd, if Nature shine; If no wild draught depart from Reason's rules, Nor gods his heroes, nor his lovers fools; Intriguing Wits! his artless plot forgive; And spare him, Beauties! though his lovers live. Be this at least his praise, be this his pride; To force applause no modern arts are try’d. Should partial cat calls all his hopes confound, He bids no trumpet quell the fatal sound. Should welcome sleep relieve the weary wit, He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain, In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust; TRAGEDY. ACT I. SCENE I. DEMETRIUS and LEONTIUS, in Turkish habits. Leontius. AND is it thus Demetrius meets his friend, Till breathless fury wrested from destruction, Leontius. Yet Greece enjoys no gleam of transient hope, |