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"Bold," says he, after a silence, "you're a good fellow and a generous " "Belay there, Cludde," I said, anxious to cut him short, "we'll cry quits over all the past. Intus si recte ne labora you remember the old school motto.
No tidiness, order, reverence, decency, or convenience. Nothing but ruin, neglect, disorder, untidiness, irreverence, and inconvenience. Ora et labora is an excellent proverb which the Irish people have not yet mastered in its entirety. To pray and work is as yet a little too much for them. They stop at the first word, look round, and think they have done all.
The Middle Ages summoned up the business of life in the words, 'Ora et Labora. They are beautiful words, and after this lapse of time we take the meaning out for ourselves, in other words, 'Think and Act." The woman's laughter from the next room became louder, and then they heard chairs pushed back, and the noise of departure.
Over the western door-way is a mosaic of the Virgin with the following leonine and loyal distich beneath it: "Sponsa suae prolis, O Stella puerpera Solis, Pro cunctis ora, sed plus pro rege labora!"
Benbow and Punchard on the scene: And Nelly Hind's bashed portal closes On bandy legs and Roman noses; and ending thus: Carmen concludo sine mora: "Intus si recte ne labora," Lloyd, the master, mightily. The rage of the persons chiefly concerned knew no bounds, and this good came of it, that the Mohocks troubled Shrewsbury streets no more.
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