The Scots shall surely reign, where'er this stone they find.
Luther sent a glass to Dr. Justus Jonas, with the following verses:—
Dat vitrum vitro, Jonae, vitro ipse Lutherus,
Se similem ut fragili noscat uterque vitro.
TRANSLATED.
Luther a glass, to Jonas Glass, a glass doth send,
That both may know ourselves to be but glass, my friend.
PRIOR.
MIRROR, vol. xii. p. 184.
Prior's epitaph on himself was parodied as follows:—