As of all flowers the rose is still the sweetest,
So of all churches this is the completest.


On the stone in the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey.

_Ni fallat fatum, Scoti quocunque loquitur,
Inveniant lapidem, regnare teneter ibidem_.


TRANSLATED.

Unless old proverbs fail, and wizard's wits be blind,
The Scots shall surely reign, where'er this stone they find.


Luther sent a glass to Dr. Justus Jonas, with the following verses:--

_Dat vitrum vitro, Jonae, vitro ipse Lutherus,
Se similem ut fragili noscat uterque vitro_.


TRANSLATED.

Luther a glass, to Jonas Glass, a glass doth send,
That both may know ourselves to be but glass, my friend.


PRIOR.