Whose scent now charms not, but offends the nose.
MIRROR, vol. xiii. p. 98.
The couplet on York Minster, translated.
As of all flowers the rose is still the sweetest,
So of all churches this is the completest.
On the stone in the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey.
Ni fallat fatum, Scoti quocunque loquitur,
Inveniant lapidem, regnare teneter ibidem.
TRANSLATED.
Unless old proverbs fail, and wizard's wits be blind,