Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli.
The fate of books is diverse as man's sense:
Two critics ne'er shar'd one intelligence.
V.
I would not in my love too soon prevail:
An easy conquest makes the purchase stale.1
1 From a copy most kindly made for me by Mr. Nichol Smith. It is a harmless enough, and rather neat, translation of Petronius, Nolo quod cupio, &c.
Epigrams.] This little bunch of epigrams is of no particular value, but being so small may be given for completeness' sake. The first three Hannah found in both Pickering and Malone 22 MSS., together with V, which, I suppose, shocked him so that he did not print it. The Pro captu lectoris, which is the best, is in Malone only.