(Vol. iv., pp. 226, 297.)
As anagrams have been admitted into your pages, perhaps the following,
on the merits of your publication, may find a place.
(1.) Every one will allow that "NOTES AND QUERIES" is _a
Question-Sender_, and a very efficient one too.
(2.) Always ready to furnish information, it says to all, _O send in a
Request_.
(3.) Its principles are loyal and constitutional, for its very name, in
other words, is _Queens and Tories_.
(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.