Ætatem ad quamvis, ad eaptum ita fingitur om nem, Ut nihil auxilii postulet inde liber. Millia librorum numerat perplura; nec ullum Non est, non istis author de millibus unus, A MANUAL MORE ANCIENT THAN THE ART OF PRINTING, AND NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY CATALOGUE. THERE is a book, which we may call' (Its excellence is such) Alone a library, though small; The ladies thumb it much. Words none, things num'rous it contains: I And, things with words compar'd, Who needs be told, that has his brains, 1 Which merit most regard? Oftlimes its leaves of scarlet hue A golden edging boast; And open'd, it displays to view Nor name, nor title, stamp'd behind, Adorns its outer part; But all within 'tis richly lin'd, A magazine of art. The whitest hands that secret hoard Oft visit and the fair Preserve it in their bosoms stor'd, As with a miser's care. Thence implements of ev'ry size, And form'd for various use, (They need but to consult their eyes) They readily produce. The largest and the longest kind · A sort most needed by the blind, The full-charg'd leaf, which next ensues, The smaller sort, which matrons use, The third, the fourth, the fifth supply What their occasions ask, Who with a more discerning eyebr Perform a nicer task. But still with regular decrease nati From size to size they fall, In ev'ry leaf grow less and less; 75; The last are least of all. O! what a fund of genius, pent This volume's method and intent It leaves no reader at a loss Or pos'd, whoever reads: No commentator's tedious gloss, Nor even index needs. Search Bodley's many thousands o'er! Nor yet in Granta's num'rous store, That may with this compare. No!-Rival none in either host Of this was ever seen, Or, that contents could justly boast, ENIGMA. PARVULA res, et acu minor est, et ineptior usu: Sed licet exigui pretii minimique valoris, Tertius in partes resecat, quartusque resectum |