And Washington Irving gives an Arabian inscription from one of the gardens of the Alhambra, which commences with a somewhat similar thought:
"How beauteous is this garden, where the flowers of the earth vie with the stars of Heaven!"
SELEUCUS.
Lady Petre's Monument.
—In the church at Ingatestone, in Essex, there is a beautiful monument to Mary Lady Petre, of the date 1684, upon which there is the following curious inscription:—
"D. O. M.
Certa spe Immortalitatis
Parte sui mortali hoc tegitur marmore
Maria
Vidua Domini Roberti Petre Baronis