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same rhythm, connected by a shorter rhymed line,
blending its rhyme partly with the first, partly with
the third long lines :
But it ts not good, to looke too long, upon the turning
Wheeles
of Vidssi/wflfe, lest we become Giddy.
As for the Philology of them, that is but a Circle of
Tales.
In French, "a Circle of Tales " is
rendered by " un
cercle d'amibuguitez " (a circle of ambiguities).
In Latin, however, the words in question
run thus :
Quatenus vero ad Philologiam, quae in hoc Argumento, ut
plurimum, versatur, nihil aliud est, quam Narratiuncularum &
Observationum futilium congeries quaedam.
And even those are rhymed verses :
Quatenus ver' ad Philologiaw,
qu' in hoc Argument', ut plurimum
versatur, nil aliud est, quam
Narratiuncular' et Observatiow
futiliww congeries
Lines one, three and five are rhymed,
as also are
lines two and four.
And in the very first Essay, that Essay which, as we
saw, is a song in praise of dramatic art, we are told
where to look for that " Circle of Tales, ambuguitez
and Narratiunculae." It all
required this to enable us
thoroughly to grasp the spirit of wit and humour
embodied in the opening sentences of the Book.
The word " Giddy " it is, which acts as a connectinglink
between the commencement and the conclusion of
the Book. At the end, it occurs as an adjective,
" Giddy," at the beginning, as a noun, "Giddinesse,"