Do provide info how neander defend rhyme from crites critical comments. do provide their arguments in points regarding rhyme

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Neander defends English playwright on the basis of the definition of play which was agreed by four of them. He says that English are not breaking rules for creating absurdities, but prevent themselves from creating absurdities by following Ancient rules. Finally, he says that English are justly imitating lively nature”. He says French plays may be artistically beautifully, but they are beautiful like “statue”. They are not life-like, while English plays are at best to represent the life and nature with its passions and humours. So, English plays by Neander’s argument are defended from Crites’ and Lisideius’ attack from French and Ancients. The thoughts of Neander are final words by Dryden. His aim to write the essay is fulfilled by the argument given by Neander, here. He further discusses more about Rhymed Verse and Blank Verse.     Rhyme Verse Versus Blank Verse :- At the end of essay the controversy of Rhymed Verse and Blank Verse between Crites and Neander is mentioned. As a matter of fact, it was time when Dryden who had been famous for his ‘mistress rhyme’ till his play Aurangzebe had turned to use blank verse. But, in the essay by the words of Neander, he attempted strongly to favour rhyme. The charges against “Rhyme Verse’ according to Crites, is as following: ð Drama should be a ‘just’ and ‘lively’ representation of nature, but nature has no rhyme and therefore, the diction of play need to be natural. Because no one speaks in rhyme or verse. ð According to him artistic control is also a matter of judgement and not of rhyme or verse. Rhyme verse is artificial and not apparent. For, ‘true art consists in hiding art’. ð But, Aristotle suggested that, “’Tis best to write Tragedy in that kind of verse which is least such, or which is nearest to prose”. So, Ancients find Iambique nearer to their prose, says Crites, but for us it is blank verse. ð Henceforth, it should not be allowed for serious plays but only for comedies. Neander defends Rhymed Verse and gives his arguments, ð He says that it is all about the choice of words and placing them in a natural order. But, Rhyme is ‘an aid to judgement’ that only best poets can write better. ð Blank Verse is no verse at all, it is just the poetic prose and unsuitable to tragedies. While Rhymed verse is near to prose by Aristotle’s dictum, too. ð He suggests the ways to bring novelty in the Rhymed Verse by run on lines, hemistich, manipulation of pauses and stress or the change of metre also, to make it more natural. ð He says, Elizabethans have achieved perfection in use of blank verse, and no one can excel them. But they can achieve significant place by use of  rhymed verse. Finally, he says Rhymed Verse gives the poetic pleasure, which is the function of play ‘to delight’ and agreed by four of them.