Although my waiste is small
I will be heard amainst you all,
Sing on my jolly sisters.
While Berrow, Somerset, is more brief:—
My treble voice
Makes hearts rejoice.
Bruton has a recast bell saying—
Once I’d a note that none could beare,
But Bilbie made me sweet and clear.
My sound is good that once was bad,
Lett’s sing my sisters and be glad.
Badgworth, Gloucester, has a similar inscription—
Badgworth ringers they were mad
Because Rigbe made me bad,
But Abel Rudhall you may see
Hath made me better than Rigbe.
At Blakesley, Northamptonshire, the tenor bears—