[34] In a collection of epitaphs printed at Cologne, 1623, under the title of Epitaphia Joco-seria, I find the same monumental inscription, with the observation, that it is at Tournay, and with the following explanation.--"De pari conjugum, posteà ad religionem transeuntium et in eâ præfectorum. Alter fuit Franciscanus; altera verò Clarissa."
[35] Histoire du Duché de Normandie, III. p. 15.
LETTER XVIII.
EVREUX--CATHEDRAL--ABBEY OF ST. TAURINUS--ANCIENT HISTORY.
(Evreux, July, 1818.)
Our journey to this city has not afforded the gratification which we anticipated.--You may recollect Ducarel's eulogium upon the cathedral, that it is one of the finest structures of the kind in France.--It is our fate to be continually at variance with the doctor, till I am half inclined to fear you may be led to suspect that jealousy has something to do with the matter, and that I fall under the ban of the old Greek proverb,--
"Και ϰεραμευς ϰεραμει Φϑονεει ϰαι τεϰτονι τεϰτων."--
[English. Not in Original: The potter is jealous of the potter, as the builder is jealous of the builder.]