THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 41 



Ce git Piron ; qui ne f uit rien ; 

 Pas meme academicien 



De Quincey rendered it in English 

 thus 



" Here lies Piron ; who was nothing ; 

 Or, if that could be, was less ; 

 How ! Nothing ? Yes, nothing ; 

 Not so much as F.K.S. ! " 



These cabbalistic letters so much valued, 

 haying the double meaning of Fellow of the 

 Royal Society^ and also (oh ! tell it not in 

 Oath) of Fellow Remarkably Stupid ! 



Another of your famous poets, though 

 belonging to the Emerald Isle, Tom 

 Moore, adopting the theory of the Jewish 

 Rabbins, that the account in the Book 

 of Genesis of Eve, the first woman, having 

 been taken from the rib of Adam is a 

 misrendering, and that the word should 

 have been "te7" instead, thus happily 

 expresses himself on the subject 



*' They tell us that woman was made of a rib, 



Just picked from a corner so snug in the side ; 

 But the Rabbins declare that this is a fib, 



And 'twas not so at all that the sex was supplied. 



