Lines on Pharaoh

I beg to inform "J.T.," that the well-known *couplet* about Pharaoh, and *rascal* rhyming to *pascal*, are from a certain *History of the Bible*, or *Bible History*, by the Rev. Dr. Zachary Boyd, of Todrig, who was either Principal or Professor of Divinity at Glasgow in the seventeenth century. He left considerable property to the College there, on condition that his bust should be placed in the quadrangle, and his great work printed under the care of the Academical Senatus. The bust was placed accordingly, and is, or lately was, to be seen in a niche over the inner doorway. The *History* was…