text: " Strange to say by the changing pronunciation of the language there grew with time upon the minds of men a doubt whether or no the Father of our Poetry _wrote verse_! The tone of Dryden in the above passage when animadverting upon Speght shows that that editor in standing up for ten syllables put forth an unusual opinion; whilst the poet in alleging the deficiency manifestly agrees with the opinion of the antique versification that had become current in the world