Charles James Steuart.
CLAIMS ARTHUR'S SEAT.
Sylvester, the translator of Du Bartas, considered himself fortunate when he found in the name of his sovereign the strongest bond of affection to his service. In the dedication he rings loyal changes on the name of his liege, James Stuart in which he finds a just master!
The anagram on Monk, afterwards Duke of Albemarle, on the restoration of Charles the Second, included an important date in our history:—
Georgius Monke, Dux de Aumarle.
Ego regem reduxi An°Sa. MDCLVV.
A slight reversing of the letters in a name produced a happy compliment; as in Vernon was found Renoun; and the celebrated Sir Thomas Wiat bore his own designation in his name, a Wit.[[114]] Of the poet Waller the anagrammatist said,
His brows need not with Lawrel to be bound,
Since in his name with Lawrel he is crown'd.
Randle Holmes, who has written a very extraordinary volume on heraldry, was complimented by an expressive anagram:—
Lo, Men's Herald!
These anagrams were often devoted to the personal attachments of love or friendship. A friend delighted to twine his name with the name of his friend. Crashawe, the poet, had a literary intimate of the name of Car, who was his posthumous editor; and, in prefixing some elegiac lines, discovers that his late friend Crashawe was Car; for so the anagram of Crashawe runs: He was Car. On this quaint discovery, he has indulged all the tenderness of his recollections:—