While grief her heart oppresseth,
For Tereus' force o'er her chaste will prevailing."
H. Gardiner.
Inscriptions in Books (Vol. viii., p. 64. &c.).—John Bostock, sometime Abbat of St. Alban's, gave some valuable books to the library of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, with these lines in the commencement:
"Quem si quis rapiat raptìm, titulumve retractet,
Vel Judæ laqueum, vel furcas sentiat. Amen."
Anon.
Door-head Inscription (Vol. viii., p. 454.).—A friend has kindly sent me an improved version of the inscription over the gate of the Apostolical Chancery, which, with his permission, I beg to forward to you:—
"Fide Deo, dic sæpe preces, peccare caveto,
Sis humilis, pacem dilige, magna fuge,