text:  "Glorious John" (who must have been laughing in his sleeve) then declares that the "excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr Waller taught it;" that it was afterwards "followed in the epic by Sir John Denham in his 'Cooper's Hill ' a poem which your lordship knows for the majesty of the style is and ever will be the exact standard of good writing;" and that we are "acknowledging for the noblest use of it to Sir William D'Avenant who at once brought it upon the stage _and made it perfect in the Siege of Rhodes_!" Having thus carried things all his own way he triumphantly declares that the advantages which rhyme has over blank verse are so many that "it were lost time to name them