[Footnote 6.2: Nous aurions quelque intert, says _Baillet_, de montrer qu'il n'a rien de ridicule s'il toit veritable, au moins dans le sens nigmatique que _Nicius Erythrus_ a tch de lui donner. 
* However, Baillet says that to understand how Lipsius composed a book on the first day of his life, one must imagine, that this first day is not that of his birth, but that on which he began to use reason; this would have been at the age of nine years; and we are persuaded that it was at this age that Lipsius composed a poem.