Pray add the following savoury inscriptions to your next list of
bell-mottoes. The first disgraces the belfry of St. Paul's, Bedford; the
second, that, of St. Mary's, Islington:
"At proper times my voice I'll raise,
And sound to my _subscribers'_ praise!"
"At proper times our voices we will raise,
In sounding to our _benefactors'_ praise!"
The similarity between these two inscriptions favours the supposition
that the ancient {110} bell-founders, like some modern enterprising
firms, kept a poet on the establishment, _e.g._
"Thine incomparable oil, Macassar!"