He rag’d, and kept as heavy a Coil as Stout Hercules for loss of Hylas; Forcing the Valleys to repeat The Accents of his sad Regret; He beat his Breast, and tore his Hair, For Loss of his dear Crony Bear, That Eccho from the hollow Ground His Doleful Wailings did resound More wistfully, bu many times, Then in small Poets Splay-foot Rhymes, That make her, in her rueful Stories To answer to Introgatories, And most unconscionably depose Things of which She nothing knows:  And when she has said all she can say, ’Tis wrested to the Lover’s Fancy.  Quoth he, O whither, wicked Bruin, Art thou fled to my-----Eccho, Ruin? I thought th’ hadst scorn’d to budge a Step for Fear. (Quoth Eccho) Marry guep. Am not I here to take thy Part!  Then what has quell’d thy stubborn Heart?  Have these Bones rattled, and this Head So often in thy Quarrel bled?  Nor did I ever winch or grudge it, For thy dear Sake. (Quoth she) Mum budget. Think’st thou ‘twill not be laid i’ th’ Dish.  Thou turn’dst thy Back?  Quoth Eccho, Pish.  To run from those th’ hadst overcome Thus cowardly?  Quoth Eccho_, Mum. But what a-vengeance makes thee fly From me too, as thine Enemy?  Or if thou hadst not Thought of me, Nor what I have endur’d for Thee, Yet Shame and Honour might prevail To keep thee thus for turning tail; For who will grudge to spend his Blood in His Honour’s Cause?  Quoth she, A Pudding.

[Footnote 1:  From [Greek:  leip_o], I omit, [Greek:  gramma], a letter.  In modern literature there is a Pugna Porcorum (pig-fight) of which every word begins with a p, and there are Spanish odes from which all vowels but one are omitted.  The earliest writer of Lipogrammatic verse is said to have been the Greek poet Lasus, born in Achaia 538 B.C.  Lope de Vega wrote five novels, each with one of the five vowels excluded from it.]

[Footnote 2:  This French name for an enigmatical device is said to be derived from the custom of the priests of Picardy at carnival time to set up ingenious jests upon current affairs, ‘de rebus quae geruntur.’]

[Footnote 3:  Addison takes these illustrations from the chapter on ‘Rebus or Name devises,’ in that pleasant old book, Camden’s Remains, which he presently cites.  The next chapter in the ‘Remains’ is upon Anagrams.]

[Footnote 4:  Colloquia Familiaria, under the title Echo.  The dialogue is ingeniously contrived between a youth and Echo.]

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No. 60.  Wednesday, May 9, 1711.  Addison.

      ‘Hoc est quod palles?  Cur quis non prandeat, Hoc est?’

      Per.  ‘Sat. 3.’

Several kinds of false Wit that vanished in the refined Ages of the World, discovered themselves again in the Times of Monkish Ignorance.