English
Reader cannot understand, who does not know that there are those little Poems abovementioned in the Shape of Wings and Altars.
... Chuse for thy Command
Some peaceful Province in Acrostick Land;
There may'st thou Wings display, and Altars raise,
And torture one poor Word a thousand Ways.
Fashion of false Wit was revived by several Poets of the last Age, and in particular may be met with among
Mr. Herbert's
Poems; and, if I am not mistaken, in the Translation of
Du Bartas
.