Black is the rook,
Great is the sinner
That steals this book."
W. W.
As your correspondent Balliolensis inquires regarding inscriptions in books, perhaps the following may add to his proposed collection, being an old ditty much in use among schoolboys, &c.:
"Hic liber est meus,
And that I will show;
Si aliquis capit,
I'll give him a blow."
N. N.