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Rh in longer and horter Works, as have alo long ince our bet Englih Tragedies, as a thing of it elf, to all judicious eares, triveal and of no true muical delight; which conits only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the ene variouly drawn out from one Vere into another, not in the fingling ound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both in Poetry and all good Oratory. This neglect then of Rime o little is to be taken for a defect, though it may eem o perhaps to vulgar Readers, that it rather is to be eteem'd an example et, the firt in Englih, of ancient liberty recover'd to Heroic Poem from the troubleom and modern bondage of Rimeing.