I remember to have read the following version of the epigram descriptive
of the character of the world some twenty or thirty years ago; but
where, I have forgotten. It seems to me to be a better _text_ than
either of those given by your correspondents:

"Oh, what a glorious world we live in,
To lend, to spend, or e'en to give in;
But to borrow, to beg, or to come at one's own,
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known."

J. Bruce.

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ECCIUS DEDOLATUS.

Mr. S.W. Singer, for an agreeable introduction to whom I am indebted to
"Notes and Queries," having expressed a wish (Vol. ii., {157} p. 122.)
"to see and peruse" the rare and amusing satire, entitled _Eccius
dedolatus, authore Joanne-francisco Cottalembergio, Poeta Laureato_, I
shall willingly forward to him a quarto volume which contains two copies
of it, at any time that an opportunity may present itself. In the
meanwhile, he may not have any objection to hear that these are copies
of distinct impressions; neither of them intentionally recording place
or printer.

Four separate and curious woodcuts decorate the title-page of one
exemplar, which was certainly printed at Basil, apud Andream Cratandrum.
The topmost woodcut, dated 1519, is here misplaced; for it should be at
the bottom of the page, in which position it appears when employed to