Quippe tuo jussu terras liquere, putantque
Tartara se jussu linquere posse tuo."
The person alluded to was Sir W. Browne, M.D., the founder of the Browne medals in the University of Cambridge. Some old fellow of King's College may be able to inform me.
The medals were first given about the year 1780, and in the first year, I presume, out of respect to the memory of the donor, no subject was given for Epigrams. It has occurred to me, that perhaps some wag on that occasion sent the lines as a quiz.
W.S.
Richmond, Surrey
Couplet in De Foe—
"Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise,
And good men wicked liberties despise."
This couplet is at the end of the second letter in De Foe's Great Law of Subordination, p. 42. Is it his own? If not, where did he get it?