text:  "It may be added that not only the common audience had no notion of the rules of writing but few even of the better sort piqued themselves upon any great degree of knowledge or nicety that way; till Ben Jonson getting possession of the stage brought critical learning into vogue; and that this was not done without difficulty may appear from those frequent lessons (and indeed almost declamations) which he was forced to prefix to his first plays and put into the mouth of his actors the _grex_ _chorus_ &c