French

obliged to lend us a Part of their Tongue before we can know how they are Conquered? They must be made accessory to their own Disgrace, as the

Britons

were formerly so artificially wrought in the Curtain of the

Roman

Theatre, that they seemed to draw it up in order to give the Spectators an Opportunity of seeing their own Defeat celebrated upon the Stage: For so Mr.

Dryden

has translated that

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in