Chies' Inglese tratta male,
Quel che chiamo quella gente
Pio? No-no, ne sapiente."
The alteration in the third line is required both by sense and metre, which last is octosyllabic; and chiamo is pronounced as a dissyllable, as are also chiesa and -piente.
E. S. TAYLOR.
Epigram on Erasmus.
—The following epigram, written in a fly-leaf of a copy of the Epistolæ Obscuroram Virorum, published at Frankfort, 1624, in the possession of a friend, is commended to your notice; not, however, without a suspicion of its having been printed already:
"Ut Rhadamantheum stetit ante tribunal Erasmus,
Ante jocos scribens serio damnor, ait
Cui Judex, libri dant seria damna jocosi,