3.
That no actor’s made profane,
To debase Gods, to raise thy strain;
And people forced, that hear thy Play,
Their money and their souls to pay:
4.
That thou leav’st affected phrase
To the shops to use and praise;
And breath’st a noble Courtly vein,—
Such as may Cæsar entertain,
5.
When he wearied would lay down
The burdens that attend a crown;
Disband his soul’s severer powers;
In mirth and ease dissolve two hours:
6.
These are thy inferior arts,
These I call thy second parts.
But when thou earnest on the plot,
And all are lost in th’ subtle knot;
7.