text:  Such is the substance of Crites' answer to Dryden's Defence of Rhyme; and Neander before replying begs it to be understood that he excludes all comedy from his defence and that he does not deny that blank verse may be also used; but he asserts that in Serious Plays where the subject and characters are great and the plot unmixed with mirth which might allay or divert those concernments which are produced rhyme is there as natural and more effective than blank verse--for what other conditions he asks are required to make rhyme natural in itself besides an election of apt words and a right disposition of them? The due choice of your words expresses your sense naturally and the due placing them adapts the rhyme to it