text:  Now after all the endeavours of that ingenious person a play will still be supposed to be a composition of several persons speaking _extempore_ and it is as certain that good verses are the hardest things that can be imagined to be so spoken; so that if any will be pleased to impose the rule of measuring things to be the best by being nearest to nature it is proved by consequence that which is most remote from the thing supposed must needs be most improper; and therefore I may justly say that both I and the question were equally mistaken for I do own I had rather read good than either blank verse or prose and therefore the author did himself injury if he like verse so well in plays to lay down rules and raise arguments only unanswerable against himself