Note 26 — DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN. (continued 4)
Reading edition
Such is the inscription, as copied by Evelyn; but as its sense is not very clear, and the Diary contains instances of incorrectness in transcribing, it may be desirable to subjoin the distich said (by Keysler in his "Travels," ii. 433) to be the only one in the whole mausoleum:
"Quæ cineris tumulo hæc vestigia? conditur olim Ille hoc qui cecinit pascua, rura, duces."