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_.
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