A piece of antiquity painted on the wall adjoining to the kitchen of Winchester College, which has been long preserved; & as oft as occasion requires, is repair'd, w.th the following Latin verses ...
The Latin verses are: "Effigiem servi si vis spectare probati, / Quisquis es, haec oculos pascat imago tuos. / Porcinum os quocunque cibo jejunia sedat: / Haec sera, consilium ne fiat, arcta premit. / Dat patientem asinus dominis jurgantibus aurem; / Cervus habet celeres ire, redire, pedes. / Laeva docet multum tot rebus onusta laborem; / Vestis munditiem, dextera aperta fidem. / Accinctus gladio, clypeo munitus ; et inde / Vel se, vel Dominum, quo tueatur, habet."
The Latin verses are followed by an English verse translation as follows: "A trusty servant's portrait would you see, / This emblematic figure well survey: / The porker's snout not nice in diet shews. / The padlock shut no secrets he'll disclose. / Patient the ass his master's wrath will hear, / Swiftness in errand the stagg's feet declare; / Loaded his left hand apt to labour saith: / The vest his neatness, open hand his faith. / Girt with his sword, his shield upon his arm, / Himself & master he'll protect from harm"