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If the Quattuor Islands were not already on the maps, they would presently appear, but not before the first pilgrims had set out.

Certain of the matters we discussed have been written down for expression here: * If some one announced that there lived in the Quattuor Islands a man who knew the exact way to bring into the world, not only the spirit, but the action of brotherhood and fatherland, there would be some call for maps and steamship passages.

And if some one should add that all expression of the arts so far in the world is addled and unsightly compared to that which is about to be, if a certain formula is followed, and that this man in the Quattuor group has the formula many more would start on the quest, or send their most trusted secretaries.

Or was it that they were books not laid up in the Church chest, but hidden away in obscure corners? They are Latin hexameters into which an internal rhyme has forced its way. The following, for example, are all 'leonine': Qui pingit florem non pingit floris odorem: Si quis det mannos, ne quaere in dentibus annos. Una avis in dextra melior quam quattuor extra.

15 Etenim, cum complector animo, quattuor reperio causas cur senectus misera videatur: unam, quod avocet a rebus gerendis; alteram, quod corpus faciat infirmius; tertiam, quod privet omnibus fere voluptatibus; quartam, quod haud procul absit a morte. Earum, si placet, causarum quanta quamque sit iusta una quaeque videamus. VI. A rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit. Quibus?