... Ibi omnis
Effusus labor ...

The lover was thunder-struck with his Misfortune, insomuch that in a little time after he lost his Senses, which indeed had been very much impaired by that continual Application he had given to his Anagram.

[The]

Acrostick

[4]

was probably invented about the same time with the Anagram, tho' it is impossible to decide whether the Inventor of the one of the other

were

[5]

the greater Blockhead. The

Simple