_Amor Nummi._--Can any of your correspondents inform me as to the
authorship of the following verses?
_Amor Nummi._
"'The love of money is the root of evil,
Sending the folks in cart-loads to the devil.'
So says an ancient proverb, as we're told,
And spoke the truth, we [no?] doubt, in days of old.
But now, thanks to our good friend, BILLY PITT,
This wholesome golden adage will not sit [fit?];
On English ground the vice dissolves in vapour,
Being at best only a love--of paper."
It must have appeared in an English ministerial paper about the year
1805.--From the _Navorscher_.