"We found," they wrote, "the Prior a very honest, conformable person, and the house well furnished with jewels and plate, whereof some be meet for the king's majesty in use as a little chalice of gold, a goodly large cross, double gilt with the foot garnished, and with stone and pearl; two goodly basons double gilt.

Shaking the chalice in the dawning, some hours after he had left, I heard with delight the rattle of the stone.

What hand will raise the chalice to my lips?

Now, the chalice with the stone was taken from this loculus; and is it possible not to believe that some knight, to whom it had been presented by one of Saladin's men, had in turn presented it to the monastery, first scratching uncouthly on its surface the name of Hasn to mark its semi-sacred origin, or perhaps bidding the monks to do so?

It is as though one should turn the sacred chalice into a tea-pot.

Each found his steed beside the mountain base, And mounted, all that goodly company, She with her crystal chalice at the head.

Within note (1) the good bossed and panelled roof, (2) dark oak screen, (3) old benches, (4) the E.E. font attached to one of the pillars and furnished with a book rest, (5) effigy of a priest with an incised chalice on breast (cp. Minehead), (6) piscina on splay of S. sanctuary window.

Jesus raised the chalice by its two handles to a level with his face, and pronounced the words of consecration.

I bore my mystic chalice unto Earth With vintage which no lips of hers might name; Only, in token of its alien birth, Love crowned it with his soft, immortal flame, And, 'mid the world's wide sound, Sacred reserves and silences breathed round, A spell to keep it pure from low acclaim.

Father, all things are possible to thee, remove this chalice from me!'