"_Inveni Portum_" (Vol. v., pp. 10. 64.).--"Actum ne agas" is generally a
safe motto, and a particularly safe one when so learned a scholar as MR.
SINGER has preceded. However, it may do no harm to mention, that since the
Query occurred in the "N. & Q." I have met with two quotations of a very
analogous kind.
The first is given as a quotation, and may be found at the end of George
Sandys' _Divine Poems_, 1648,--"Jam tetigi Portum ---- valete." The second
may be found amongst the _Poems_ of Walter Haddon, and refers to something
more ancient still:
"_In obitum N. Pointzi Equitis,_
_Ex Anglico clarissimi viri Th. Henneagii._
Per medios mundi strepitus, cæcosque tumultus,
Turbida transegi tempora, Pointzus eques.
Nullus erat terror, qui pectora frangere posset,
Mens mea perpetuo quod quereretur, erat.
_Nunc teneo portum, valeant ludibria mundi_,
Vita perennis ave, vita caduca vale."