Unseemliness,—of no more warrant, there

And then, than now and here, whate'er the time

And place,—I say, the Immortal,—who can doubt?—

Would never shrink, but own, 'The blot escaped

Our artist: thus he shows humanity!'

"May stranger tax one peccant part in thee,

Poet, three-parts divine! May I proceed?

"'Comedy is prescription and a rite.'

Since when? No growth of the blind antique time,

'It rose in Attiké with liberty;