T. J. Buckton.
Birmingham.
Inscriptions in Books.—The following are taken literatim from the margins of an old black-letter
Bible. From the numerous errors we may suppose they were copied from dictation by a person unacquainted with Latin.
"Quanto doctiores tanto te gesas submiseias."
"Forasmuch as yu art ye better learned,
By so much yu must carry thy self more lowly."
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"Si deus est animus nobis ut carmina dicunt,
Sic tibi pricipus (bus?) sit pura mente colendus."