Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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(4.) It is suited to all classes, for while it instructs the people, it
_tires no sad queen_.
(5.) It promotes peaceful studies so much that it _ends a queen's riot_.
(6.) The new subscriber finds it so interesting that on his bookseller's
asking if he wishes to continue it, he is sure to say, _No end as I
request_.
(7.) Lastly, its pages are only too absorbing; for I often observe
(after dinner) my friend _A--n's nose quite red_.
Hoping the editor, who must be accustomed, from the variety of his
contributions, to (8) _stand queer noise_, will excuse this trifling, I
beg to subscribe myself,
(9) DAN. STONE, ESQUIRE.
As some of your readers feel an interest in anagrams, I venture to make
an additional contribution. Polemics apart, it will strike most persons
as remarkably happy:
"But, holie father, I am certifyed
That they youre power and policye deride;
And how of you they make an anagram,
The best and bitterest that the wits could frame.
As thus:
_Supremus Pontifex Romanus._
Annagramma:
_O non sum super petram fixus._"
It occurs in Taylor's _Suddaine Turne of Fortune's Wheele_, lately
printed for private circulation, under the care of Mr. Halliwell.
C. H.
I am surprised not one of your correspondents has noticed the anagram by
George Herbert on _Roma_. As it is a good specimen of what may be
called "learned trifling" I subjoin a copy of it:--
"Roma dabit oram, Maro,
Ramo, armo, mora, et amor.
"Roma tuum nomen quam non pertransiit _Oram_
Cum Latium ferrent sæcula prisca jugum?
Non deerat vel fama tibi, vel carmina famæ,
Unde _Maro_ laudes duxit ad astra tuas.
At nunc exsucco similis tua gloria _Ramo_
A veteri trunco et nobilitate cadit.
Laus antiqua et honor perierunt, te velut _Armo_
Jam deturbârunt tempora longa suo.
Quin tibi jam desperatæ _Mora_ nulla medetur;
Qua Fabio quondam sub duce nata salus.
Hinc te olim gentes miratæ odêre vicissim;
Et cum sublata laude recedit _Amor_."
H. C. K.
Amongst George Herbert's _Poems_ is an anagram, which I shall only
allude to, as it is upon a sacred subject; and Fulke Greville, Lord
Brooke, has left us a play upon his own name, which would scarcely
satisfy the requirements of MR. BREEN. However, I am glad of any
opportunity of referring to our great English Lucretius, and will
transcribe it:--
"Let no man aske my name,
Nor what else I should be;
For _Greiv-Ill_, paine, forlorne estate
Doe best decipher me."
"Cælica," sonnet lxxxiii. _Works_, p. 233. Lond. 1633.
To me the most satisfactory anagram in the English language is that by
the witty satirist Cleveland upon Oliver Cromwell:
_Protector. O Portet C. R._
Cleveland's _Works_, p. 343. Lond. 1687.
RT.
Warmington, Oct. 18. 1851.
THE LOCUSTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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