Which else the Christian virtue might have claimed.
"There live who yet remember here to have seen
Their courtly figures, seated on the stump
Of an old yew, their favourite resting-place.
But as the remnant of the long-lived tree
Was disappearing by a swift decay,
They, with joint care, determined to erect,
Upon its site, a dial,[HM] that might stand
For public use preserved, and thus survive[553]
As their own private monument: for this