On the fly-leaf of a Bible I find the following, which, however, is taken from The Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome, vol. ii. p. 198. No 15., dated Friday, Dec. 26, 1679:
"Sancte Liber! venerande Liber! Liber optime, salve!
O Animæ nostræ, Biblia dimidium!"
A very common formula, in works of a devotional nature, is as follows:
"This is Giles Wilkinson his book.
God give him grace therein to look."
We now come to some of a menacing description:
"Si quis hunc furto rapiet libellum,
Reddat:—aut collo dabitur capistrum,
Carnifex ejus tunicas habebit,