So ’twill of Tray be emblematical;
For thou, ’tis plain, must lose a deal of bark,
Since he nor bark nor bite shall practice more.”
“And take thou, too,” she said, “a coffin-plate,
And be his birth and years inscribed thereon
With letters twain ‘S. T.’ to mark Sir Tray,
So shall the tomb be known in after time.”
“This, too,” quoth Waldgrave, “shall be deftly done;
Oft hath the plate been freighted with his bones,
But now his bones must lie beneath the plate.”