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A47633
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The censure of the Rota on Mr. Driden's Conquest of Granada.
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Leigh, Richard, 1649 or 50-1728.
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1673
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Wing L1018; ESTC R21215
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Prose with the Rabble Without the sweetnesse and cadency of Rhyme our quick Repartees in discourse lose much of their Beauty when as if he that spoke last be nick'd by another both in wit and sound nothing is left desireable Nay M r Dryden that writ ill in Rhyme would have writ worse without it for such Redundancy's as this in Granada First Part This is my will and this I will have done which is a handsome way of saying this is my will twice such mean Couplets as this in Maximin O my dear Brother whom Heav'n let us see And would not longer suffer him to be and such precipitations from such heights as Say but he 's dead that God shall mortall be See nothing Eyes henceforth but Death and wo You 've have done me the worst Office you can do would never have been passable were not many cozn'd with their sound in a word many things were charg'd upon the Poet of which the Rhymer was no ways guilty but there needed no greater Argument for the efficacy of Rhime above Blank Verse then that of blowing a Candle out and blowing in again in two Verses Granada Like Tapers new blown out the fumes remain To catch the light and bring it back again where the snuff expires so sweetly it cannot be offensive to the most critical Nose To this a Favourer of Blank verse with some heat reply'd that these verses in Granada Second Part You see Sir with what hardship I have kept This precious gage which in my hands you left These in the Indian Emperour But I me so far from meriting esteem That if I judge I must my self condemn And these in Maximin Porphyrius Too long as if Eternity were so Berenice Rise good Porphyrius since it must be so proclaim'd the Rhymer no less faulty then the Poet and evidently prov'd that M r Dryden enslav'd his sense as little to Rhyme as elsewhere to Syllables and both to sense Who after this will deny that the way of writing in verse is the most free and unconstrain'd in which the Poet is not ty'd up to Language sense Syllables or Rhyme but even sweet and flowing numbers and smart Repartees in plain English playing with words attone for the want of all With what impudence can the Adversaries of Rhyme object its difficultie when those that are formed neither by Art nor Nature may write whole plays such as Mr Dryden's in it without easing themselves on pace and â—rot It is but framing the character of a Huff of the Town one that from breaking Glass-windows and combating the watch starts up an Heroe him you must make very saucy to his superiours to shew he is of the same stamp with Achilles and Rinaldo then tame the savage with the charming sight of the Kings Daughter or wife whom this St George is to deliver from the Dragon or greater dangers to heighten his character the more bring in a sheepish King with a Guard of poultrons to be kick't by him as often as he thinks fit his Miss should be a witnesse of his Gallantry if this be not enough let him play prizes with Armies still Tumults with one look and raise Rebellions with another The Language is no lesse easie then the characters 't is but stuffing five Acts with Fate Destiny Charms Charming fair Killing fair heavenly fair the Fair and Brave the Lover and the Brave c. an allusion to two kind Turtles foisted in an impertinent Simile from a Storm or a Shipwrack and a senslesse Song of Phillis and the businesse is done the descriptions may be borrewed from Statius and Montaigns Essays the Reason and Politicall Ornaments from Mr Hobs and the Astrologicall and if need be the Language too from Ibrahim or the Illustrious Bassa To conclude all he said a barren Invention must ever be provided with such necessary helps as the following Forms to which he might have recourse on all occusions Some Forms and Figurative Expressions of solarge an extent that they are adjusted to all Characters in all Plays Tragedys Comedys and Tragi-Comedys whether written in Rhyme Blank Verse or Prose suitable to all Prologues Epilogues and Dramatique Essays that are or shall be written For magnifique Sound As when some dreadfull Thunderclap is nigh The winged Fire shoots swiftly through the Sky Strikes and consumes e're scarce it does appear Or varied thus As when Winds and Rain together crowd They swell till they have burst the bladder'd cloud And first the Lightning flashing deadly clear Flyes Falls Consumes e're scarce it does appear For gentle verses that do not shake us in the reading Heav'n which moulding Beauty takes such care Makes gentle fates on purpose for the fair And Destiny that sees them so divine Spins all their fortunes in a silken twine Translate the Fair to the Brave it may be thus If fate weaves common Thrid he 'le change the doom And with new Purple spread a nobler loom for a Rant I le grasp my Scepter with my dying hand Or thus higher I 'le grasp it Even after death Higher yet I 'le hold it fast As Life and when life 's gone I 'le hold it last For generous Love Though to my former vowes I must be true I 'le ever keep one love entire for you That love which Brothers with chast Sisters make Or with a more poynant brevity Take friedship or if that too small appear Take Love which Sisters may to Brothers bear For sharpnesse of conceit He es'd his half-tir'd Muse on pace and trot That is Sometimes upon Rhyme sometimes upon Blank Verse Like an Horse who eases himself upon Trot and Amble For pleasant folly in the prime Of Easter Term in Tart and Chees-cake time Easily resolved thus into prose In Easter Term when the Country Gentlewomen come up to the destruction of Tarts and Chees-cakes Indian Emperor Granada 2. part Maiden Queen Granada 1. part Indian Emperour Rivall Ladys Granada 2. part Maximin Granada 1. part Epilogue to Mock Astrologer Essay of Dramatique Poetry Epilogue to Maximin Sr Martin Mariall