Disposita ordinibus certis, discrimina servant, Quantillo in spatio doctrina O quanta latescit! Millia librorum numerat perplura; nec ullum Non est, non istis auctor 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 tho' small; The ladies thumb it much Words none, things num'rous it contains; Ofttimes its leaves of scarlet hue A golden edging boast; And open'd, it displays to view Twelve pages at the most. 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 bosom stor'd As with a miser's care. Thence implements of ev'ry size, The largest and the longest kind The full-charg'd leaf, which next ensues, The smaller sort, which matrons use, Not quite so blind as they. The third, the fourth, the fifth supply Who with a more discerning eye But still with regular decrease O! what a fund of genius, pent It leaves no reader at a loss Or pos'd, whoever reads: Search Bodley's many thousands o'er! Nor yet in Granta's num'rous store No! Rival none in either host ENIGMA. PARVULA res, et acu minor est, et ineptior usu Tertius in partes resecat, quartusque resectum AN ENIGMA. A NEEDLE small, as small can be, Yet though but little use we boast, Nor few artificers it asks, All skilful in their sev'ral tasks, One fuses metal o'er the fire, The shears another plies, Who clips in lengths the brazen thread A fifth prepares, exact and round, And with his mallet and his file Now therefore, Edipus! declare Its purpose with so much ado, PASSERES INDIGENÆ COL. TRIN. CANT. COMMENSALES. INCOLA qui norit sedes, aut viserit hasce Newtoni egregii quas celebravit honos; Viditque et meminit, lætus fortasse videndo, Quam multa ad mensas advolitarit avis. Ille nec ignorat, nidos ut, vere ineunte, Tecta per et forulos, et tabulata struat. Ut coram educat teneros ad pabula fœtus, Et pascat micis, quas det amica manus. Convivas quoties campanæ ad prandia pulsus Convocat, haud epulis certior hopes adest. Continuo jucunda simul vox fertur ad aures, Vicinos passer quisque relinquit agros, Hospitium ad notum properatur ; et ordine stantes Expectant panis fragmina quisque sua. Hos tamen, hos omnes, vix uno largior asse Sumptus per totam pascit alitque diem. Hunc unum, hunc modicum (nec quisquam invidorit assem) Indigenæ, hospitii jure, merentur aves |