—Carved in a beam over the town hall of Much Wenlock, in Shropshire, stands (or perhaps stood, for the building was very old thirty years since) the following curious verses:
"Hic locus odit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat,
Nequitiam, pacem, crimina, jura, bonos."
I am not aware if they have appeared previously in your publication; but they are worthy of preservation, I think, if for nothing else, for the oddity of linking one line with another.
There is also a couple of lines on the town hall, Windsor, underneath a miserable statue of Queen Anne:
"Arte tuâ, sculptor, non est imitabilis Anna,
Annæ vis similem sculpere? sculpe Deam."
The unintentional satire conveyed in the first line is very appropriate, as the statue is a thing of wood, and forcibly reminds one of the charming statue of George IV. formerly at King's Cross.
PROCURATOR.