phylactery

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Most likely, the Lawyer who questioned Jesus had these very words written on his Phylactery; and that Jesus pointed to the words when He asked, "How readest thou?"

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary

A Phylactery Wise men I hold those rakes of old   Who, as we read in antique story, When lyres were struck and wine was poured, Set the white Death's Head on the board—     Memento mori.

From Poems by Hay, John