I preserve a few specimens of some of our own anagrams. The mildness of the government of Elizabeth, contrasted with her intrepidity against the Iberians, is thus picked out of her title; she is made the English ewe-lamb, and the lioness of Spain:—
Elizabetha Regina Angliæ.
ANGLIS AGNA, HIBERIÆ LEA.
The unhappy history of Mary Queen of Scots, the deprivation of her kingdom, and her violent death, were expressed in this Latin anagram:—
Maria Steuarda Scotorum Regina:
TRUSA VI REGNIS, MORTE AMARA CADO:
and in
Maria Stevarta
VERITAS ARMATA.
Another fanciful one on our James the First, whose rightful claim to the British monarchy, as the descendant of the visionary Arthur, could only have satisfied genealogists of romance reading:—