Birmingham.
_Inscriptions in Books._--The following are taken _literatim_ from the
margins of an old black-letter {123} Bible. From the numerous errors we may
suppose they were copied from dictation by a person unacquainted with
Latin.
"Quanto doctiores tanto te gesas submiseias."
"Forasmuch as y^u art y^e better learned,
By so much y^u must carry thy self more lowly."
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"Si deus est animus nobis ut carmina dicunt,
Sic tibi pricipus (bus?) sit pura mente colendus."
"Seing y^t God is, as y^e poets say,
A liveing soul, lets worship him alway."
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"Tempora (e?) felici multa (i?) numerantur amici,
Cum fortuna perit nulus amicus erit."
"In time of prosperity friends will be plenty,
In time of adversity not one among twenty."