Ballads, and took a particular Pleasure in the Reading of them. I can affirm the same of Mr.

Dryden

, and know several of the most refined Writers of our present Age who are of the same Humour.

I might likewise refer my Reader to

Moliere's

Thoughts on this Subject, as he has expressed them in the Character of the

Misanthrope

; but those only who are endowed with a true Greatness of Soul and Genius can divest themselves of the little Images of Ridicule, and admire Nature in her Simplicity and Nakedness.

[As]

for the little conceited Wits of the Age, who can only shew their Judgment by finding Fault, they cannot be supposed to admire these Productions