great Success this Opera met with, produced some Attempts of forming Pieces upon Italian Plans,
which
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.