In a New Help to Discourse, 12mo, London, 1684, occurs an anagram with a very quaint epigrammatic “exposition:”—
TOAST—A SOTT.
A toast is like a sot; or, what is most
Comparative, a sot is like a toast;
For when their substances in liquor sink,
Both properly are said to be in drink.
Cotton Mather was once described as distinguished for—
“Care to guide his flock and feed his lambs
By words, works, prayers, psalms, alms, and anagrams.”
Sylvester, in dedicating to his sovereign his translation of Du Bartas, rings the following loyal change on the name of his liege:—