Scriblerus.
Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir K. Digby.—In page 18. of your current volume is a poem of which I am anxious to know the author: it is entitled the "Houre-Glasse." Among the poems of Amaltheus I have discovered one so like it, that it appears to be almost a translation. It is curious, and but little known, so that I trust you can find it a place in "Notes and Queries."
"HOROLOGIUM PULVERUM, TUMULUS ALCIPPI.
Perspicuo in vitro pulvis qui dividit horas
Dum vagus augustum sæpe recurrit iter,
Olim erat Alcippus, qui Gallæ ut vidit ocellos,
Arsit, et est cæco factus ab igne cinis.—
Irrequiete cinis, miseros testabere amantes
More tuo nulla posse quiete frui."