Cet instrument s’appelle un sot.
Thus likewise the famous simile of Taliacotius, loses, by the amplification of the translator, a great portion of its spirit.
So learned Taliacotius from
The brawny part of porter’s bum
Cut supplemental noses, which
Would last as long as parent breech;
But, when the date of nock was out,
Off dropt the sympathetic snout.
Ainsi Taliacotius,
Grand Esculape d’Etrurie,