[ [329] Vossius's Opinion seems to be the Result of his Enquiry into the Original of Satire, which he observes to have arose out of the old Comedy. From whence he maintains, that the chearful bantering Humour should be still kept up, and not be forfeited for Moroseness: And for the same Reason, the Style should be near allied to Prose. In both which Particulars, and indeed in all the others which he mentions, he sets Horace for an Example.
[ [330] Sat. I. ℣ 114.
[ [331] P. 40.
[ [332] Ibid.
[ [333] Lib. I. Sat. IV.
[ [334] P. 43.
[ [335] P. 44.
[ [336] Ibid.
[ [337] I don't see how nihilo inornata would make more for Vossius's Sense. But do not Horace's Words imply, that a Writer of Satires should Chiefly use common Words, tho' he allows he is not always oblig'd to use no other? A common Style is the general Rule, tho' there may be some Exceptions to it.
[ [338] P. 40, 41.