Don Quix. _Oh thou old black Fox with a Fire brand in thy Tail, thou very Priest: Thou Kindler of all Mischeifs in all Nations. De'e hear Homily: Did not the Reverence I bear these Nobles----I would so thrum your Cassock you Church Vermin_.[385]
At last he bids _Bernardo_ adieu in Language too Profane and Scandalous to relate.[386] In the Fourth _Act_ His Song calls the Clergy _Black Cattle_, and says _no Body now minds what they say_. I could alledge more of his Courtship to the _Order_, but the _Reader_ might possibly be tired, and therefore I shall proceed in the
_Third_, place to his want of Modesty, and Regard to the Audience. As for Smut _Sancho_ and _Teresa_ talk it broad, and single sens'd, for almost a page together.[387] _Mary_ the _Buxsom_ has likewise her share of this Accomplishment. The first Epilogue is Garnish'd with a Couplet of it;[388] _Marcella_ the Maiden Shepherdess raves in Raptures of Indecency; And sometimes you have it mixt up with Profaness, to make the Composition the stronger.[389] But this entertainment being no Novelty, I shall pass it over; And the rather because there are some other Rarities which are not to be met with else where.
Here he diverts the Ladies with the Charming Rhetorick of _Snotty-Nose, filthy Vermin in the Beard, Nitty Jerkin, and Louse Snapper, with the Letter in the Chamber-pot, and natural Evacuation_;[390] with an abusive description of a Countess, and a rude story of a certain Lady, and with some other varieties of this Kind, too coarse to be named. This is rare stuff for Ladies, and Quality! There is more of _Physick_, than _Comedy_ in such Sentences as these. _Crocus Metallorum_ will scarse turn the Stomack more effectually. 'Tis possible Mr. _Durfey_ might design it for a _Receipt_. And being Conscious the _Play_ was too dear, threw a Vomit into the Bargain.[391] I wonder Mr. _Durfey_ should have no more regard to the _Boxes_ and _Pitt_! That a Man who has _studied the Scenes of Decency and Good Manners with so much Zeal_, should practise with so little Address! Certainly _indefatigable Diligence, Care and Pains_, was never more unfortunate![392] In his _third Part_, _Buxsome_ swears faster, and is more scandalous, and impertinent, than in the other two. At these Liberties, and some in _Sancho_, the Ladies took Check. This Censure Mr. _Durfey_ seems heartily sorry for. He is _extreamly concern'd that the Ladies, that Essential part of the Audience_, should think his Performance _nauseous and undecent_.[393] That is, he is very sorry they brought their Wits, or their Modesty along with them. However Mr. _Durfey_ is not so Ceremonious as to submit: He is resolved to keep the Field against the Ladies; And endeavours to defend himself by saying, _I know no other way in Nature to do the Characters right, but to make a Romp, speak like a Romp, and a clownish Boor blunder_ &c.[394]