This is Thomas Jones’s book—
You may just within it look;
But you’d better not do more,
For the Devil’s at the door,
And will snatch at fingering hands;
Look behind you—there he stands!
The following macaronic is taken from a copy of the Companion to the Festivals and Fasts, 1717:—
To the Borrower of this Book.
Hic Liber est meus,
Deny it who can,