text:  Again perhaps you will say--not so; O Ping-Kee the writers of those plays are stupid men--with shaved heads--that have no understanding and receive no greater reward than the conjurers who catch balls on their foreheads and balance long poles in the market-place! But the case is far different as I will prove to you from the preface to one of those works written by a lady called Inchbald who herself wrote many comedies and received much money for the same