The Old Court of Corpus.
ADDENDA.
Attention should have been called to two remarkable ecclesiastical inscriptions, on the Eastern and Western borders of our district respectively.
In the upland churchyard of Castle Camps (p. 206), hard by the Priest's Door into the Chancel, a tombstone has the following epitaph:
Mors Mortis Morti mortem nisi morte dedisset
Æternæ Vitæ janua clausa foret.
["Except the Death of Death Death's death by death had been
Ne'er would Eternal Life with door unshut be seen."]
And in the church of Fen Stanton, low down amid the Ouse meadows near St. Ives, is the following ancient rebus (also hard by the Priest's Door):
| QV | A | D | T | M | P | ||||||
| OS | NGVIS | IRVS | RISTI | VLCEDINE | AVIT | ||||||
| H | SA | M | X | D | L |
I.e.—Quos Anguis dirus tristi mulcedine pavit
Hos Sanguis mirus Christi dulcedine lavit.
["Whom the dire Serpent fouls with poisonous food
Christ washeth in His sweet and wondrous Blood."]
A variant of these lines is to be seen in the Alpine sanctuary of Champéry near the Lake of Geneva.