O hear her prayers, commiserate her sighs!
Extend thy arms of mercy and of love,
And bear her to thy peaceful realms above."
Anecdotes of some Distinguished Persons,
8vo. London, 1795, vol. i. p. 154.
H. E.
Tandem D. O. M. (Vol. iii., p. 62.)—I would suggest that this inscription might be resolved into
"Tandem Deus Otia Misit,"
a thanksgiving for the fulfilment of some oft-made prayer or long-cherished hope; the idea—if I am right in my conjecture—having probably been taken from the 6th line of Virgil's 1st Eclogue—
"O Melibæe! deus nobis hæc otia fecit."