Besides thee, aught existence never had, nor shall.”
One volume taught: “The universe is unity.
Who teaches two exist, is but a squint-eye, he.”
The last gave out: “A hundred really are but one.”
Unless a madman, whom could have such doctrines won?
In them these paradoxes fitly found their place,
In words and sense his doctrines lacked all claim to grace.185
Each volume was the antithesis of the next;
If one was honey, poison was the other’s text.
Wouldst thou escape his honey and his poison too,