_Book Inscriptions_ (Vol. vii., p. 455.).--At the end of No. 1801. _Harl.
MSS._ is the following:
"Hic liber est scriptus,
Qui scripsit sit benedictus.
Qui scriptoris manum
Culpat, basiat anum."
In the printed catalogue there is this note:
"Neotricus quidam hos scripsit versiculos, ex alio forsan Codice
depromptos."
[omega]. [phi].
I have not seen the following amongst your deprecatory rhymes. It may come
in with another batch. The nature of the punishment is somewhat different
from that usually selected, and savours of Spain:
"Si quisquis furetur
This little libellum,
Per Phoebum, per Jovem,
I'll kill him, I'll fell him!
In ventum illius
I'll stick my scalpellum,
And teach him to steal
My little libellum."