But my future depends on the strength of this wall.”
“Since I never lose
A fresh excuse go choose.”
“Time was made for slaves, men say;
Yet free-men ask the time of day.”
A verse, written by Andrew Marvell in the reign of Charles II., called forth by a drunken nobleman of the Court defacing the beautiful sundial erected by Stone in the Privy Garden at Whitehall, in 1662, is of interest:-
“For a dial the place is too unsecure,
Since the Privy Garden could not it defend;