should give a more natural and reasonable Entertainment than what can be met with in the elaborate Trifles of that Nation.
alarm'd the Poetasters and Fidlers of the Town, who were used to deal in a more ordinary Kind of Ware; and therefore laid down an establish'd Rule, which is receiv'd as such to this
Day
,
That nothing is capable of being well set to Musick, that is not Nonsense.
Maxim was no sooner receiv'd, but we immediately fell to translating the Italian Operas; and as there was no great Danger of hurting the Sense of those extraordinary Pieces, our Authors would often make Words of their own