MEMORIALS.
An English gentleman, who, in 1715, spent some time in prison, left the following memorial on the windows of his cell. On one pane of glass he wrote:—
That which the world miscalls a jail,
A private closet is to me;
Whilst a good conscience is my bail,
And innocence my liberty.
On another square he wrote, Mutare vel timere sperno, and on a third pane, sed victa Catoni.[[31]]
A Mr. Barton, on retiring with a fortune made in the wool-trade, built a fair stone house at Holme, in Nottinghamshire, in the window of which was the following couplet,—an humble acknowledgment of the means whereby he had acquired his estate:—
I thank God, and ever shall;
It is the sheep hath paid for all.