Rhodes, Bisance pour leur exposant pole,
Terre faudra les pour-suivans de fuite.
English.
The advisers of the first Monopoly,
The Conquerors seduced by the Melite,
Rhodes, Bizance, for exposing their Pole,
The ground shall fail the followers of runaways.
ANNOT.
All the difficulty of this lieth in the signification of the word Pole, which in Greek signifieth a City. The word Monopoly is Vulgar, and signifieth when one or few would engross all the Trade of a Town. The rest is so obscure, that I had rather leave it to the liberty of the Reader, than break my Brains about it, considering chiefly that I am going to bed, the precedent Stanza having exhausted all my Spirits, and so farewell till to morrow.