Before you turne to dust! ah! must! old! dye!
What shall younge doe when old in dust doe lye?
When old in dust lye, what N. England doe?
When old in dust doe lye, it’s best dye too.
In an Elegy written by Rev. John Cotton on the death of John Alden, a magistrate of the old Plymouth Colony, who died in 1687, the following phonetic anagram occurs:—
John Alden—End al on hi.
The Calvinistic opponents of Arminius made of his name a not very creditable Latin anagram:—
Jacobus Arminius,
Vani orbis amicus;
(The friend of a false world.)