text:  Soon after its publication Sir Robert Howard in a peevish Preface to some plays of his chose to answer what Dryden had said in behalf of verse in his Epistle Dedicatory to his "Rival Ladies " and not only without any mention of his name but without any allusion to the "Indian Emperor " while he bestowed the most extravagant eulogies on the heroic plays of my Lord of Orrery--"in whose verse the greatness of the majesty seems unsullied with the cares and the inimitable fancy descends to us in such easy expressions that they seem as if neither had ever been added to the other but both together flowing from a height like birds so high that use no balancing wings but only with an easy care preserve a steadiness in motion