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."
"Caelica," 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.