Ebibat; et totum testudo perambulet orbem
(May this volume continue in motion,
And its pages each day be unfurled;
Till an ant to the dregs drink the ocean,
Or a tortoise has crawled round the world.)
On the title-page of a book called Gentlemen, Look about You, is the following curious request:—
Read this over if you’re wise,
If you’re not, then read it twice:
If a fool, and in the gall
Of bitterness, read not at all.