+Tên d' egô ou lusô, prin min kai gêras epeisen.+

Here are six _Monosyllables_, and one cutting off.

+All' ithi, mê m' erethize, saôteros hôs ke neêai.
Hos êdê ta t' eonta, ta t' essomena, pro t' eonta.+

Hom. Il. I. l. 70.

Here are seven _Monosyllables_; yet so far is _Virgil_ from being angry
with his Master _Homer_ on this Account, that he in a manner transcribes
his very Words, imitating him as near as the _Latin_ wou'd permit;

Quæ sint, quæ fuerint, quæ mox ventura trahantur.

Here is the whole Sense of _Homer_ exprest, and five _Monosyllables_.
But Mr. _Dryden_, who has exprest the Sense of _Virgil_ with no less
Accuracy, gives you the whole Line in _Monosyllables;

He sees what is, and was, and is to come.

Mr. _Pope_ is equally happy in the Turn he has given to the Original,
who as he is an exact Master of Criticism, so has he all those
Accomplishments of an excellent Poet, that give us just Reason to hope
he will make the Father of the Poets speak to us in our own Language,
with all the Advantages he gave to his Works in that wherein they were
first written, and the modest Opinion he prescribes to his own, and other
Mens Poetical Performances, is no Discouragement to these Hopes;

Whoever thinks a faultless Piece to see,