give their Minds quite a wrong Biass, and disarm them of that Severity which is their greatest Guard, and which, when once lost, leaves ’em an easie Prey to every Temptation?  Will not those Lewd Scenes of Love, wherewith almost every Play is fraught, inflame the Fancy, heighten the Imagination, and render a Person thus prepar’d, a fit Subject for ill designing People to work on?  But suppose it were possible to be so armed as to be Proof against all these Dangers; yet let any that have the least Regard to what is Serious, tell me how they can answer it to God, or their own Consciences, to be any ways Instrumental towards the Support of so much Wickedness?  Do they think it a Sin to give the least Encouragement to Vice, and at the same time believe themselves Innocent, when by their Persons, and their Purses, they contribute to the cherishing the very Seed-Plot of Irreligion?  ’Tis to no purpose for such to say, That they are cautious what Plays they see, and always go to the best and that the Play-Houses would thrive whether they frequented them or no.  This may he true, but what then, Will this excuse them?  Suppose a powerful Rebellion is begun in a Nation, and carried on successfully, for some time; and a Man should not only appear sometimes among the Rebels, but should, now and then, send them a Supply (tho’ never so little) of Money and Arms:  Could such a one pretend that he was no ways Instrumental in this Rebellion, nor Accessary to the Mischiefs that attended it, and that because it was not only begun, but would have prosper’d too, without him; and altho’ he did sometimes appear among the Authors of it, yet it was with the Party which did the least Mischief?  Do you think, Madam, this a just way of Reasoning?  I dare say you do not.  Is not this then the very Case I am speaking of?  Is the Stage, as ’tis now manag’d, any thing else but a downright Rebellion against God and his Holy Religion?  Are not the Plays, (if not by Design) yet by a natural and necessary Consequence, an undermining of his Laws, and an Attempt upon his Government?  And must it not then follow, that every one that frequents them, is a Party in the Cause, and encourages the Undertaking?  And tho’ he should be so Happy as never to smile at a Prophane Jest, nor join in Applauding a Vitious Play; yet, will that exempt him from a Share of that Guilt which his Presence and Purse has help’d to support?  No, Madam, ’tis Numbers strengthen the Enemy, and give fresh Courage to his Attempts!  A Full House is the very Life of the Stage, and keeps it in Countenance, whereas thin Audiences would, in time, make it dwindle to nothing.