XLIX.

French.

Les conseillers du premier Monopole, Les Conquerans seduits par la _Melite_, _Rhodes_, _Bisance_ pour leur exposant pole, Terre faudra les pour-suivans de fuite.

English.

The advisers of the first Monopoly, The Conquerors seduced by the _Melite_, _Rhodes_, _Bizance_, for exposing their Pole, The ground shall fail the followers of runaways.

ANNOT.

All the difficulty of this lieth in the signification of the word _Pole_, which in Greek signifieth a City. The word _Monopoly_ is Vulgar, and signifieth when one or few would engross all the Trade of a Town. The rest is so obscure, that I had rather leave it to the liberty of the Reader, than break my Brains about it, considering chiefly that I am going to bed, the precedent Stanza having exhausted all my Spirits, and so farewell till to morrow.