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Asmodeus or the Devil Upon Two Sticks Preceded by Dialogues Serious and Comic Between Two Chimneys of Madrid Classic ReprintDescription
Excerpt from Asmodeus, or the Devil Upon Two Sticks: Preceded by Dialogues, Serious and Comic Between Two Chimneys of MadridThe sale of small pamphlets, calculated for amusement, which he composed, and they have forbid all writings of this kind - B. What 1 did these pamphlets support him A. Yes; and at his ease too; for he did not takeup his time in correcting and publishing a volume he entertained the public with these ying numbers, at least seven or eight in the year.-b. What a pity it is to deprive -the world of the industry of so good 'a hand; and how comes it they forbid writings of amusement, the very best things in the world? The public loves to be entertained, and why are they not at their liberty to buy what diverts them P - A. You are certainly in the right and this prevailing taste makes both for authors and booksellers. But then this is the ground of the clamour against that kind of writings; they say that nothing is wrote nowadays but low nonsense and mere bagatelle and that posterity will distinguish this age for the Age of romances and all sorts of futz'lz'bl. They say, moreover, that there is a general depravity of taste; that these broken numbers are a real tax upon the public that by this means a romance is swelled to an intolerable size.
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