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

which

[2]

should give a more natural and reasonable Entertainment than what can be met with in the elaborate Trifles of that Nation.

[This]

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

[3]

,

That nothing is capable of being well set to Musick, that is not Nonsense.