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Scarronides

Or, Virgile Travestie, A Mock-Poem. Being The Second [and Seventh] Book[s] of, Virgils Æneis, Translated into English Burlesq; Being a Continuation of the former Story
  

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TO THE LADY ANN DIDO, Countess of Carthage.
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TO THE LADY ANN DIDO, Countess of Carthage.

Madam,

You know it was at your Command,
That this great work I took in hand;
Which after many Ejaculations,
Great pains, and many Lucubrations;
So there 'tis done then make the best on't,
And let who will finish the rest on't.
From Your Servant, R. M.