text:  "I cannot therefore but beg leave of the reader to take a little notice of the great pains the author of an Essay of Dramatic Poetry has taken to prove rhyme as natural in a Serious Play and more effectual than blank verse: Thus he states the question but pursues that which he calls natural in a wrong application; for 'tis not the question whether rhyme or not rhyme be best or most natural for a grave or serious subject; but what is nearest the nature of that which it presents