Crossword-Solution: CLAUSIS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

When they were banqueting, and thinking of the conflict they waged the day before, they saw Patrick, who arrived in the middle of Tara, januis clausis ut Christus in cennaculum; because Patrick meditated: "I will go," said he, "so that my readiness may be manifested before the men of Erinn.

His body was entombed in the south aisle, with two of his brethren, under a Norman arch, beneath which is the following epitaph:-- Hos tres abbates quibus est prior abba Iohannes, Alter Martinus, Andreas ultimus, unus Hic claudit tumulus; pro clausis ergo rogemus.

Nam neque solida atque robusta fuerit umquam eloquentia nisi multo stilo vires acceperit, et citra lectionis exemplum labor ille carens rectore fluitabit; et qui sciet quae quoque sint modo dicenda, 13 nisi tamen in procinctu paratamque ad omnes casus habuerit eloquentiam, velut clausis thesauris incubabit.

From that day to this it has, with few exceptions, been held _januis clausis_; and beside it the Literary Ladies' Dinner and Bluebeard's Chamber are as open to the world and free from mystery as the public streets at noon.

Spare that, and you’ll spoil all.] [Sidenote: [Page 155.]] ++A! litil balade, voide of eloquence, 92 I p{ra}ie ȝ{o}u ȝonge children þ{a}t þis schal se & rede, Þouȝ ȝe be copious of sentence, Ȝit to þese clausis for to take hede Which al i{n}to v{er}tues schal ȝo{ur}e ȝouþe lede.