[In addition to the _Æneid_, Christopher Pitt translated Veda's _Art of
Poetry_, about 1724; and subsequently published a volume of _Poems and
Translations_, 8vo. 1727. His _Poems_ will be found in the twelfth
volume of Chalmers's Collection.]
_"The Bottle Department" of the Beer-trade_ was evidently _terra incognita_
in those days:
"He that buys land buys many stones;
He that buys flesh buys many bones;
He that buys eggs buys many shells;
But he that buys good ALE buys nothing else."
"A favourite proverbial rhyme among topers," quoth that most amusing of
lexicographers, old N. Bailey, [Greek: Philologos], who inserts it under
the word "Buy," folio edition.
Query, What was his Christian name?