For thus to question answered De Chevaye.

LVI

"True it is, I did once possess the works

You want account of—works—to call them so,—

Comprised in one small book: the volume lurks

(Some fifty leaves in duodecimo)

'Neath certain ashes which my soul it irks

Still to remember, because long ago

That and my other rare shelf-occupants

Perished by burning of my house at Nantes.