That men cannot heare always lyve.—1605.
The third bell at Allestree bears the words—
I to the church the living call,
And to the grave do summons all.—1781.
The second bell on the old peal at Ashbourne was inscribed—
Sweetly to sing men do call
To feed on meats that feed the soul.
The fifth bell at Dovebridge has the words: “Som rosa polsata monde Maria vocata, 1633.” This is—according to the Rev. Dr. John Charles Cox—a corrupt reading of “Sum Rosa pulsata mundi Maria vocata,” a legend occasionally found on pre-Reformation bells, and which may be thus Englished—
Rose of the world, I sound
Mary, my name, around.