Sir Trem. Their diction so low, that—that—
Plotw. Why, that their friends are forced to call it simplicity.
1st Play. Sir to the play if you please.
2d Play. We have a rehearsal this morning.
Sir Trem. And then their thefts are so open——
Plotw. that the very French taylors can discover them.
Sir Trem. O what felony from the ancients! what petty larceny from the moderns! there is the famous Ephigenia of Racine, he stole his Agamemnon from Seneca, who stole it from Euripides, who stole it from Homer, who stole it from all the ancients before him. In short there is nothing so execrable as our most taking tragedies.
1st Play. O! but the immortal Shakespeare, Sir.
Sir Trem. He had no judgnent.
2d Play. The famous ben Johmson!