A. L.
Charade upon Nothing translated.—In your No. for July a correspondent asks who was the author of the very quaint charade upon "Nothing:"
"Me, the contented man desires,
The poor man has, the rich requires,
The miser gives, the spendthrift saves,
And all must carry to their graves."
Possibly he may not object to read, without troubling himself as to the authorship of, the subjoined translation:
"Me, qui sorte sua contentus vixerit, optat,
Et quum pauper habet, dives habere velit;
Spargit avarus opum, servat sibi prodigus æris,