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Deciphering Latin words on window

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ruthandsam | 16:59 Tue 03rd Aug 2010 | History
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Can you help me work out what this window says?

Thanks

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15.jpg/'><img
src='http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/7964/
03082010015.th.jpg'
border='0'/></a>

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that picture comes up about 2 inches square on my screen, so no.

This is the one, is it? Your URL is a bti mangled

http://img826.imagesh...64/03082010015.th.jpg
Remove the '.th' for thumbnail...

http://img826.imagesh.../7964/03082010015.jpg
huh, gave me an Error 404 when I tried that; however, ABerrant's version seems to have worked. But I can't really make out the Gothic script, too many indistinguishable downstrokes. Virtus praest... industria... nil... nec... nec timide

Not much help, sorry
My bash at it...

Virtus praestit divitus
Industria nil impossibile
Aortem...
Nec temere nec timide


Virtue surpasses riches
To the diligent nothing is impossible
?
Neither rashly nor timidly
that sounds plausible. I think it's fortem (though 'chance' hardly seems to be the message here), but can't make out the next words.

Is this some sort of William Morris-era work? Odd that 'impossibile' seems to use the long 's' that looks like an 'f'.
Fortem posce animum

Pray for (seek, demand) a brave heart (mind, spirit, will)
that looks like it - well read! A sort of quasi-medieval self-improvement manual, then.
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Thank you so much! Discovered this window in a beautiful building whilst on a course in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Alas, some of it is being used as offices and the other has been left to go to rack and ruin...........

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