goes on thus,
Indignatur item privatis, & prope socco Dignis carminibus narrari cœna Thyestæ.
A Comic Subject loves an humble Verse: Thyestes scorns a low and Comic Style. Roscom.
And again:
[430] Effutire leves indigna Tragœdia versus, Ut festis matrona moveri jussa diebus, Intererit Satyris paulum pudibunda protervis.
For Tragedy shou'd blush as much, to stoop To the low mimick Follies of a Farce, As a grave Matron wou'd, to dance with Girls.
And Ovid:
[431] Omne genus scripti gravitate Tragœdia vincit.
In Majesty the Tragic Muse excels.
I am entirely of[432]Vossius's Opinion, who says, "that Tragedy is nearly allied to Epic Poetry, nay, often superior to it, in the Choice of Words, and Majesty of Expression." Which makes Horace say of it,