"Nec mihi glis servus, nec hospes hirudo."
Permit me to add to this corroboration, that I should venture a different translation of the word "hospes" from your correspondent's, and render the notice thus:
"Good attendance and cheap charges:"
taking "hospes" not as guest but host, and the literal words, "My servant is not a dormouse, nor (I) the host a leech."
Ainsworth gives authority for "hospes" meaning host as well as guest, and quotes Ovid's Metamorphoses in support of it.
John P. Boileau.
Ketteringham Park, Wymondham, Norfolk.
With due respect to your correspondent A. B. R., the word "hospes" most probably means host, not guest.
"Sit mihi nec servus glis, nec hospes hirudo."
In Blomfield's Norfolk (but I cannot now lay my finger on the passage) the line is given as an inscription on the lintel of a door of an ancient hostelry, carved in oak. If so, the line may be rendered—