text:  * * * Shakspeare (who with some errors not to be avoided in that age _had undoubtedly a larger soul of poesy than ever any of our nation_ ) was the first who to shun the pains of continual rhyming invented that kind of writing which we call blank verse but the French more properly _prose mesuree_; into which the English tongue so naturally glides that in writing prose it is hardly to be avoided