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"Inveni Portum" (Vol. v., pp. 10. 64.).—"Actum ne agas" is generally a safe motto, and a particularly safe one when so learned a scholar as Mr. Singer has preceded. However, it may do no harm to mention, that since the Query occurred in the "N. & Q." I have met with two quotations of a very analogous kind.
The first is given as a quotation, and may be found at the end of George Sandys' Divine Poems, 1648,—"Jam tetigi Portum —— valete." The second may be found amongst the Poems of Walter Haddon, and refers to something more ancient still:
"In obitum N. Pointzi Equitis,
Ex Anglico clarissimi viri Th. Henneagii.
Per medios mundi strepitus, cæcosque tumultus,
Turbida transegi tempora, Pointzus eques.
Nullus erat terror, qui pectora frangere posset,
Mens mea perpetuo quod quereretur, erat.
Nunc teneo portum, valeant ludibria mundi,