Volume 54 / Part 2 — INSCRIPTION ON THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE NEW DINING-HALL, &c., NOW ERECTING FOR THE HON. SOCIETY OF LINCOLN'S INN.
Reading edition
Stet lapis arboribus nudo defixus in horto Fundamen pulchræ tempus in omne domûs. Aula vetus lites legumque ænigmata servet, Ipsa nova exorior nobilitanda coquo.
FREE TRANSLATION.
No more look For shady nook, Poor perspiring stranger! Trees for bricks Cut their sticks, Lo! our salle-à-manager! Yon old hall, For suit and brawl, Still be famed in story; This must look To the cook For its only glory!
O.O.