while his friends, taking advantage of the Dutch mode of writing it, Harminius, hurled back the conclusive argument,
Habui curam Sionis.
(I have had charge of Zion.)
Perhaps the most extraordinary anagram to be met with, is that on the Latin of Pilate’s question to the Saviour, “What is truth?”—St. John, xviii. 38.
Quid est veritas?
Est vir qui adest.
(It is the man who is before you.)
Live, vile, and evil, have the self-same letters;
He lives but vile, whom evil holds in fetters.
If you transpose what ladies wear—Veil,