<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>The text is a Welsh proverb. The inscription provides alternating Latin and Welsh versions of the proverb. This inscription belongs to a series of inscriptions from the 1940s that include a more roughly worked wax crayon background that gives the impression of a stone carving.</p><p>Included in Nicolete Gray, <i>The Painted inscriptions of David Jones</i>, London: Gordon Fraser, 1981, catalogue 17.</p></p>