Which line seems to have as much title to a milliner's shop as our author's to a shoemaker's.
[138] Mr. L—— takes occasion in this place to commend the great care of our author to preserve the metre of blank verse, in which Shakespeare, Jonson, and Fletcher, were so notoriously negligent; and the moderns, in imitation of our author, so laudably observant:
"Then does
Your majesty believe that he can be
A traitor?"—"Earl of Essex."
Every page of Sophonisba gives us instances of this excellence.
"Love mounts and rolls about my stormy mind."—"Aurengzebe."
"Tempests and whirlwinds thro' my bosom move."—"Cleom."