Crossword-Solution: JACET 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

What’s he that of The Free State argues? Tellus! bid him stoop, Even where the low _hic jacet_ answers him; Thus low, O Man! there’s freedom’s seignory, Tellus’ most reverend sole free commonweal, And model deeply-policied: there none Stands on precedence, nor ambitiously Woos the impartial worm, whose favours kiss With liberal largesse all; there each is free To be e’en what he must, which here did strive So much to be he could not; there all do Their uses just, with no flown questioning.

Adorent, Utque tibi detur requies Rosamunda precamur.” The rhyming epitaph following was probably the performance of some monk:— “Hic jacet in tumbâ Rosamundi non Rosamunda, Non redolet sed olet, quæ redolere solet.” Returning from hence to Oxford, after dinner we proceeded on our journey, and passed through Ewhelme, a royal palace, in which some alms-people are supported by an allowance from the Crown.

EPITAPH The occasion of this epitaph was briefly thus:--A gentleman, who had heard much in commendation of this dumb man, going accidentally to the churchyard where he was buried, and finding his grave without a tombstone, or any manner of memorandum of his death, he pulled out his pencil, and writ as follows:-- PAUPER UBIQUE JACET.

Clamorous rage and logic, which has now sunk irresuscitably dead;--nothing of it much worth mentioning to modern readers, scarcely even its HIC JACET (in Footnotes, for the benefit of the curious!),--and it is, at last, a thing not doubtful to anybody that Friedrich, in that matter did read aright.

There is, besides, an inscription, which will enable me to recognize the stone; and as I am not willing, in an affair of delicacy and confidence, to keep the secret from your honor, here is the inscription:—‘Hic jacet venerabilis, Petrus Gulielmus Scott, Canon Honorab.