was thus
anagrammatised:--

PTOLEMAIOS,
Apo melitos, MADE OF HONEY:

and the queen's,

ARSINOE,
Heras ion, JUNO'S VIOLET.

Learning, which revived under Francis the First in France, did not
disdain to cultivate this small flower of wit. Daurat had such a
felicity in making these trifles, that many illustrious persons sent
their names to him to be anagrammatised. Le Laboureur, the historian,
was extremely pleased with the anagram made on the mistress of Charles
the Ninth of France. Her name was

_Marie Touchet_.
JE CHARME TOUT:

which is historically just.

In the assassin of Henry the Third,

_Frere Jacques Clement_,

they discovered

C'EST L'ENFER QUI M'A CREE.

I preserve a few specimens of some of our own anagrams. The mildness of
the government of Elizabeth, contrasted with her intrepidity against the
Iberians, is thus picked out of her title; she is made the English
ewe-lamb, and the lioness of Spain:--

_Elizabetha Regina Angliae_.
ANGLIS AGNA, HIBERIAE LEA.

The unhappy history of Mary Queen of Scots, the deprivation of her
kingdom, and her violent death, were expressed in this Latin anagram:--

_Maria Steuarda Scotorum Regina_:
TRUSA VI REGNIS, MORTE AMARA CADO:

and in

_Maria Stevarta_
VERITAS ARMATA.

Another fanciful one on our James the First, whose rightful claim to the
British monarchy, as the descendant of the visionary Arthur, could only
have satisfied genealogists of romance reading:--

_Charles James Steuart_.
CLAIMS ARTHUR'S SEAT.

Sylvester, the translator of Du Bartas, considered himself fortunate
when he found in the name of his sovereign the strongest bond of
affection to his service. In the dedication he rings loyal changes on
the name of his liege, _James Stuart_ in which he finds _a just master!_

The anagram on Monk, afterwards Duke of Albemarle, on the restoration
of Charles the Second, included an important date in our history:--

_Georgius Monke, Dux de Aumarle.
Ego regem reduxi An deg.Sa_. MDCLVV.

A slight reversing of the letters in a name produced a happy compliment;
as in _Vernon_ was found _Renoun_; and the celebrated Sir Thomas _Wiat_
bore his own designation in his name, _a Wit_.[114] Of the poet _Waller_
the anagrammatist said,

His brows need not with Lawrel to be bound,
Since in his _name_ with _Lawrel_ he is crown'd.

_Randle Holmes_, who has w