Hic situs est Silo, sit tibi terra levis.
[Here lies Silo. May the earth lie lightly upon him.]
FROM ST. AGNES’, LONDON.
Qu an tris di c vul stra
os guis ti ro um nere vit.
H san chris mi t mu la
The middle line furnishes the terminal letters or syllables of the words in the upper and lower lines, and when added they read thus:—
Quos anguis tristi diro cum vulnere stravit
Hos sanguis Christi miro tum munere lavit.
[Those who have felt the serpent’s venomed wound