RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.


MONKISH VERSES.

(For the Mirror.)

MIRROR, vol. xii. pp. 98, 165.

The following is said to have been the epitaph on the tomb of Fair Rosamond, at Godstow:—

Hic jacet in tomba, Rosamundae non Rosamundi,

Non redolet sed olet quae redolere solet.

TRANSLATED.

Within this tomb lies the world's fairest rose;