_Enigmatical Epitaphs_ (Vol. v., p. 179.).--The brasses of John
Killyngworth, 1412, formerly in Eddlesborough Church, now in Pitson
Church, Bucks; and of a priest at St. Peter's, near St. Alban's, have
this inscription upon them:
"Ecce quod expendi habui, quod donavi habeo, quod negavi punior,
quod servavi perdidi."
That at St. Alban's has an English translation:
"Lo, all that ever I spent, that sometime had I;
All that I gave in good intent, that now have I;
That I never gave, nor lent, that now aby[3] I;
That I kept till I went, that lost I."
[Footnote 3: So in my authority.]
The same inscription is on a brass as late as 1584, at St. Olave's, Hart
Street, London. (See _Oxford Architectural Society's Manual of
Monumental Brasses_.)