* At Winchester.
The * chests wherein the Saxon monarchs lay,
But must be basely sold or thrown away.
May in succeeding times forgotten be
Those bold examples of impiety,
Which were the Ages' wonder and discourse,
180You have their greatest ills improv'd by worse.
Lactant. l. 2, c. 4.
No more be mention'd Dionysius' theft,
Who of their gold the heathen shrines bereft;