8. Queen Anne.
The immortal praise of Queen Anne I sound,
With union blest, and all these glories crowned.
On the famous alarm-bell called Roland, in a belfry-tower in the once powerful city of Ghent, is engraved the subjoined inscription, in the old Walloon or Flemish dialect—
"My name is Roland; when I toll there is fire,
And when I ring there is victory in the land."
The following inscription, remarkable for bad taste, is on one of eight bells in the church tower of Tilton, Devon—
"Recast by John Taylor and Son,
Who the best prize for church bells won
At the Great Ex-hi-bi-ti-on
In London, 1-8-5 and 1."
Articles of Ringing.
The following "Articles of Ringing" are upon the walls of the belfry in Dunster, Somersetshire, England:—
1. You that in ringing take delight,
Be pleased to draw near;
These articles you must observe,
If you mean to ring here.
2. And first, if any overturn
A bell, as that he may,
He forthwith for that only fault
In beer shall sixpence pay.