Ionick

Dialect; and could not but be

acceptable

[7]

to the whole Audience, because there are fewer of them who understand

Greek

than

Italian

. The only Difficulty that remained, was, how to get Performers, unless we could persuade some Gentlemen of the Universities to learn to sing, in order to qualify themselves for the Stage; but this Objection soon vanished, when the Projector informed us that the

Greeks