Excerpt from Of Anagrams; A Monograph Treating of Their History From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: With an Introduction, Containing Numerous Specimens of Macaronic Poetry, Punning Mottoes, Rhopalic, Shaped, Equivocal, Lyon, and Echo Verses Alliteration The Anagrams, and other verbal and literary curiosities Of a kindred nature, contained in the following pages, I have drawn from various sources, and, amongst Others, several of the works mentioned in the Catalogue of Books relating to Anagrams, given in the Appendix, to which I am largely indebted. In making extracts I have always endeavoured to consult the original authors, and to trace the anagrams, which have come down to us through many divergent Streams, to their fountain head. Whilst seeking thus for the original authorities of the best known anagrams which we possess, and which each succeeding writer has been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.