Whereunto the antiquitie had so moche care, that thei would have nothing els written in their hedde peces, but the nomber that thei were named by, callyng them firste, seconde, thirde, and fourthe xc.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli
16.-Page 267, stanza xc.
"The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P."
Edward Bulwer Lytton