LIFE OF FLETCHER IN STOCKDALE'S EDITION. 1811.
In general their plots are more regular than Shakspeare's.—
This is true, if true at all, only before a court of criticism, which judges one scheme by the laws of another and a diverse one. Shakspeare's plots have their own laws or regulæ, and according to these they are regular.
MAID'S TRAGEDY.
Act I. The metrical arrangement is most slovenly throughout.
'Strat'. As well as masque can be, &c.