THE VERSE.
THe Meaſure is Engliſh Heroic Verſe without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no neceſſary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verſe, in longer Works eſpecially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to ſet off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed ſince by the uſe of ſome Famous modern Poets, carried away by Cuſtom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and conſtraint to expreſs many things otherwiſe, and for the moſt part worſe then elſe they would have expreſt them. Not without cauſe therefore ſome both Italian and Spaniſh Poets of prime note have rejected Rime both
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