Sir,

In that small inch of time I stole, to look

On th' obscure depths of your mysterious book,

(Heav'n bless my eyesight!) what strains did I see!

What steropegeretic Poetry!

What hieroglyphic words, what [riddles] all,

In letters more than cabalistical!

We with our fingers may your verses scan,

But all our noddles understand them can

No more, than read that dungfork, pothook hand