A poetical friend, on looking at the quotation, thought it might be expressed in various ways without destroying {242} the rhyme, or altering the sense. In a short time he produced the following eleven different readings. It is doubtful whether another line can be found, the words of which admit of so many transpositions, and still retain the original meaning:-- 1. The weary ploughman plods his homeward way. 2. The weary ploughman homeward plods his way. 3. The ploughman, weary, plods his homeward way. 4. The ploughman weary homeward plods his way. 5. Weary the ploughman plods his homeward way. 6. Weary the ploughman homeward plods his way. 7. Homeward the ploughman plods his weary way. 8. Homeward the ploughman weary plods his way. 9. Homeward the weary ploughman plods his way. 10. The homeward ploughman weary plods his way. 11. The homeward ploughman plods his weary way." I know not whether this has ever appeared in print. To me it is new, at least it was, as I now recollect, when I read it several years ago; but as the exercise is ingenious, I thought I would trespass on "N. & Q." with it, so that, if not heretofore printed or known, it might be made "a note of." A HERMIT AT HAMPSTEAD. _Poetical Tavern Signs._--Passing through Dudley the other day, I jotted down two signs worthy, I think, of a place in "N. & Q." No. 1. rejoices in the cognomen of the "Lame Dog" with the following distich: "Step in, my friend, and rest awhile, And help the Lame Dog over the style." No. 2., with a spirited representation of a round of beef, invites her Majesty's subjects thus: "If you are hungry, or adry, Or your stomach out of order, Their's sure relief at the 'Round of Beef,' For both these two disorders." R. C. WARDE. Kidderminster. _"Aquæ in Vinum conversæ. Vidit et erubuit lympha pudica Deum."_--The interesting note under this title (Vol. vi., p. 358.) refers to Campbell's _Poets_. The following is an extract from Campbell: "Richard Crashaw there [Cambridge] published his Latin poems, in one of which is the epigram from a Scripture passage: "_Lympha_ pudica Deum vidit et _erubuit_.'" Campbell's _Brit. Poets_, ed. 1841, p. 198. In the _Poemata Anglorum Latina_ is the following epigram on our Saviour's first miracle at the marriage feast: "Unde rubor vestris et non sua purpura lymphis, Quæ rosa mirantes tam nova mutat aquas? Numen (convivæ) præsens agnoscite numen-- Vidit et erubuit _nympha_ pudica Deum." I presume this epigram is Crashaw's poem to which Campbell refers; but query. Until I saw the note in "N. & Q.," I supposed that the celebrated line-- "Lympha pudica Deum vidit et erubuit."