Vade, et si dives sis, tu fac similiter.
Vale."
Permit me to translate it for the benefit of your lady readers:
"Traveller, I will relate a prodigy.
On the day whereon the aforesaid Thomas Carter breathed out his soul,
a Sudbury camel passed through the eye of a needle.
Go, and if thou art wealthy, do thou likewise.
Farewell."
The allusion is of course to St. Matthew xix. 24.
W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.