and might be compar'd to many Plays which I have ſeen in France that drew Crowds to the Play-houſe, at the ſame Time that they were intolerable to read; and of which it might be ſaid, that the whole City of Paris exploded them, and yet all flock'd to ſee 'em repreſented on the Stage. Methinks Mr. de Muralt ſhould have mention'd an excellent comic Writer (living when he was in England) I mean Mr. Wycherley, who was a long Time known publickly to be happy in the good Graces of the moſt celebrated Miſtreſs of King Charles the Second. This Gentleman who paſs'd his Life among Perſons of the higheſt Diſtinction, was perfectly well acquainted with their Lives and their Follies, and painted them with the strongeſt Pencil, and in the trueſt Colours. He has drawn a Miſantrope or Man-hater, in Imitation of that of Moliere. All Wycherley's Strokes are ſtronger and bolder than thoſe of our Miſantrope, but then they are leſs delicate, and the Rules of Decorum are not ſo
