Note 3 — Chapter I · PURPOSE AND METHOD
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De Futilitate Poetices auctore Tanaquillo Fabro Tanaquilli filio Verbi Divini Ministro..., Amstel., 1697. It was answered by the Abbé Massieu in a Defense de la Poésie (in Hist. d. l. Poés. Françoise, Paris, 1739), a pious but heavy performance.