Owen, the Welsh epigrammatist, sometimes called the British Martial, lived in the golden age of anagrammatism. The following are fair specimens of his ingenuity:—
Galenus—Angelus.
Angelus es bonus anne malus; Galene! salutis
Humana custos, angelus ergo bonus,
De Fide—Anagramma quincuplex.
Recta fides, certa est, arcet mala schismata, non est,
Sicut Creta, fides fictilis, arte caret.
Brevitas—Anagramma triplex.
Perspicua brevitate nihil magis afficit aures
In verbis, ubi res postulat, esto brevis.