Doit ma constance etre eternelle?
ON THE ENQUIRIES MADE AFTER THE WRITER OF A CERTAIN LEARNED PREFACE.
Perturbed spirits spare your ink,
Nor beat your stupid brains no longer,
Soon to oblivion then shall sink
Your persecuted Preface-monger.
INCERTI AUCTORIS.
RIDDLE.
In every gift of Fortune I abound,
In me is every vice and virtue found,