met ; when or where
From Story is not mighty clear:
Of many knotty Points They spoke;
And  and  by turns They took.
Ratts half the Manuscript have eat:
Dire Hunger! which We still regret:
O! may they ne'er again digest
The Horrors of so sad a Feast.
Yet less our Grief, if what remains,
Dear , by thy Care and Pains
Shall be to future Times convey'd.
It thus begins: