Capitolo 20
language. The king or hero of the play he/she spoke in Italian generally,
and his/her slaves answered him in English. The person in love frequently did
his/her court, and it earned the heart of his/her princess, in a language that
she didn't understand. One would have thought him very difficult to
dialogues you/he/she has continued after this way without an interpreter
among the people that have conversed together; but this was the state
of the stage English for approximately three years.
For a long time the public was gotten tired to understand half the work;
and therefore, to assuage him completely of the work of
thinking, you/he/she has so currently ordered him, that the whole work is
completed in an unknown language. We don't understand the anymore
language of ours really stage; insomuch that I have often been afraid,
when I have seen our Italian stars that chat in the vehemence
of action, that they is calling us names, and misusing us
among them; but I hope, from when we put such whole trust
in them, they won't speak against us in front of our faces, although them
to do him/it with the same safety as if it were behind our backs. In
the in the meantime, I cannot abstain thinking as naturally a historian
who writes now two or three hundred years from, and he/she doesn't know the
tastes of its wise ancestors, will make the following reflection:
"To the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Italian language was
so well it understood in England, that works act on the public
you stage in that language."
A scarce knows as to be serious in the confutation of a
absurdity that appears to the first sight. He/she doesn't want
some great measure of sense to see the ridicule of this monstrous
practice; but what makes him the more drug, is not the
tastes of the riotous crowd, but of people of the greatest gentleness,
what you/he/she has established him.
If Italians have a genius for music above of the English, the
English it has a genius for other shows of a very taller
nature, and able to give a fun to the mind very more noble.