[ [349] Oldham.
[ [350] Boileau.
[ [351] De Art. Poet. ℣ 180.
[ [352] Hor. De Art. Poet. ℣ 3.
[ [353] Instit. Poet L. II. c. 7.
[ [354] Virg. Eclog. VII. ℣ 5.
[ [355] And yet it seems to be an agreed Point among many of the Learned, that the Plays of the Ancients were acted in a Kind of Recitative set to the Flute. See this proved by Crusius, in his Lives of the Roman Poets, in the Introduction to Dramatic Poets, § IV. Dr. Bentley, in his Preface to Terence, takes it for granted. See, likewise, Cic. ad. Brutum, § 55. The Objections which Dr. Trapp makes against it, would hold, in some Degree, against Chanting: And perhaps both may be accounted for, from the same prudential Reason, viz. That the Voice, when continued for some Time very elevated, naturally falls into a Tone, and yet it was necessary it should be very elevated in the ancient Theatre, which was very large, as well as in Cathedrals. To prevent the Disagreeableness of this, it was regulated by a sort of Music.
[ [356] Hor. De Art. Poet. ℣ 322.
[ [357] Juv. Sat. III.
[ [358] Æn. L. VI.