[cross] "FOEDVS . QUOD . AELFREDVS . ET . LVTHRVNVS . REGES . OMNES .
ANGLIAM . INTOLEBANT . ORIENTALEM . FERIERVNT . ET . NON . SOLVM . DE .
SEIPSIS . VERVM . ETIAM . DE . NATIS . SVIS . AC . NONDVM . IN . LVCEM
. EDITIS . QVOTQVOT . MISERICORDIAE . DIVINAE . AVT . REGIAE . VELVNT .
ESSE . PARTICIPES . JVREJVRANDO . SANXERVNT." [cross]
[cross] "PRIMO . DITIONIS . NOSTRAE . FINES . TAMESIN . EVEHVNTOR .
INDE . LEAM . VSQVE . FONTEM . EJVS . TAM . RECTA . AD . BEDFORDIAM .
AC . DENIQVE . PER . VSAM . AD . VIAM . VETE . LINTIANAM."
_Wordsworth._--In Wordsworth's touching "Lament of Mary Queen of Scots,"
one of the stanzas opens with:
"_Born all too high; by wedlock rais'd_
_Still higher_, to be brought thus low!"
Is it straining a point to suppose that the author has here translated the
opening words of the well-known epitaph on the Empress Matilda, mother of
our Henry II.?
"_Ortu magna; viro major_; sed maxima prole;
Hic jacet Henrici filia, sponsa, parens."