... 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.
Acrostick
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
the greater Blockhead. The
Simple