Made Vocal by my Song, and taught his Praise."
Thus I have given a short account of all the sorts of poems that are most used in our language. The acrostics, anagrams, &c., deserve not to be mentioned, and we may say of them what an ancient poet said long ago,
"Stultum est difficiles habere nugas,
Et stultus labor est ineptarum."
FINIS.
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THOMAS DE QUINCEY:
HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS.