Amor Nummi.—Can any of your correspondents inform me as to the authorship of the following verses?
Amor Nummi.
"'The love of money is the root of evil,
Sending the folks in cart-loads to the devil.'
So says an ancient proverb, as we're told,
And spoke the truth, we [no?] doubt, in days of old.
But now, thanks to our good friend, Billy Pitt,
This wholesome golden adage will not sit [fit?];
On English ground the vice dissolves in vapour,
Being at best only a love—of paper."