Æneid
turned into
Latin
Rhymes by one of the
Beaux Esprits
of that dark Age; who says in his Preface to it, that the
Æneid
wanted nothing but the Sweets of Rhyme to make it the most perfect Work in its Kind. I have likewise seen an Hymn in Hexameters to the Virgin
Mary,
which filled a whole Book, tho' it consisted but of the eight following Words.