The following rhyme was written under the two tables of the commandments:—
“PRSVR Y PRFCT MN.
VR KP THS PRCPTS TN.
The vowel E
Supplies the key.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.