Crossword-Solution: DEIS 4 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Pompeie sih his pacience And tok pite with conscience, 3230 So that upon his hihe deis Tofore al Rome in his Paleis, As he that wolde upon him rewe, Let yive him his corone newe And his astat al full and plein Restoreth of his regne ayein, And seide it was more goodly thing To make than undon a king, To him which pouer hadde of bothe.

But what brings you here? Not prudence, certainly.” “I am bound to know no prudence save for the Lord's work.” “That's giving away Agnus Deis, and deceiving poor heathen wenches, I suppose,” said Yeo.

The quadrangle itself was crowded with people, and the sellers of votive offerings, in their booths roofed with acacia-boughs, were driving a noisy trade in scapulars and Agnus Deis, images of the Black Virgin of Oropa, silver hearts and crosses, and phials of Jordan water warranted to effect the immediate conversion of Jews and heretics.

The verdict of fact and the verdict of literature on the great controversy between them have been summed up in the memorable line of Lucan-- Victrix causa Deis placuit, sed victa Catoni.

There was moreover a large box full of relics from Jerusalem, which the padre told me could not be sold, but that I might choose whatever I liked; so that I returned home with various Agnus Deis, crucifixes, and rosaries.