text:  Neither will I justify Milton for his blank verse though I may excuse him by the example of Hannibal Caro and other Italians who have used it; for whatever causes he alleges for the abolishing of rhyme (which I have not now the leisure to examine ) his own particular reason is plainly this that rhyme was not his talent; he had neither the ease of doing it nor the graces of it; which is manifest in his 'Juvenilia ' or verses written in his youth where his rhyme is always constrained and forced and comes hardly from him at an age when the soul is most pliant and the passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer though not a poet