Quæritur, unde tibi sit nomen Erasmus? _Eras-mus._

_Resp._

Si sum _Mus_ ego, te judice _Summus_ ero.

_Joannis Audoeni_, lib. vii. epig. 34.

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That thou wast great _Erasmus_ none dispute;

Yet, by the import of thy name, wast small:

For none its truth can readily refute

Thou wast--_a Mouse_,--ERAS-MUS after all.