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He has been censured for his neglect of the unities, as if all the business of the drama were to be contrived by rules. Those rules were derived from the observation of the ancients, who had their own habits of composition: but the business of the poet is to sue nature on her own terms. If unity be essential to the drama, it is the drama that must be confined: but if variety be desirable, Shakspeare's works must be esteemed singular and excellent.