Once on a time,  Knight, they say,
A certain  encountring on the Way,
Discours'd in Terms as just, with Looks as Sage,
As e'er cou'd  of the Laws o'th' Stage;
Concluding all were desp'rate Sots and Fools,
That durst depart from  Rules.
Our Author, happy in a Judge so nice,
Produc'd his Play, and beg'd the Knight's Advice;
Made him observe the  and the
The   what not?
All which, exact to  were brought about,
Were but a  left out.
Exclaims the Knight;
Yes, or we must renounce the
(he answers in a Rage)

The Stage can ne'er so vast a Throng contain.
