Specimens of Macaronic Poetry

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William Sandys
R. Beckley, 1831 - 56 Seiten

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Seite x - Tale vinum generat copiam sermonum. Tales versus facio quale vinum bibo; Nihil possum scribere nisi sumpto cibo, Nihil valet penitus quod jejunus scribo, Nasonem post calices carmine praeibo. Mihi nunquam spiritus prophetia? datur Nisi tune cum fuerit venter bene satur; Cum in arce cerebri Bacchus dominatur, In me Phoebus irruit ac miranda fatur.
Seite x - Suum cuique proprium dat natura munus : Ego nunquam potui scribere jejunus ; Me jejunum vincere posset puer unus, Sitim et jejunium odi tanquam funus.
Seite x - Isidorus decumbebat In lecto per tres menses brachio fracto, Nam lapides Mangonellus jaciebat, Et fregit tintinnabulum lapide jacto; Et omne vicinagium destruebat, Et nihil relinquebat de intacto, Ardens molinos...
Seite xviii - Glance, glorious Geneve, gospel-guiding gem ; Great God, govern good Geneve's ghostly game...
Seite xi - Cocaius, was issued at Venice in 1517. The real name of this author was Teofilo Folengi (descended from a noble family in Mantua), afterwards a Benedictine monk. He was born in 1491, and died at his Priory, near Bassano, in 1544. The complete title of his book, as in the edition of 1521, is — " Opus Merlini Cocaii, Poetae Mantuani Macaronicorum. Totum in pristinam formam per me Magistrum Acquarium Lodolam optime redactum, in his infra notatis titulis divisum. " Zanitonella, quae de amore Tonelli...
Seite 29 - I hecht to turne a bicker, Hoc pactum semper tenui. VII. Syne leif I the best aucht I bocht, Quod est Latinum propter cape, To the heid of my kin ; but waite I nocht, Quis est ille, than schro my skape. I tald my Lord my heid, but hiddill, Sed nulli alii hoc sciverunt, We wer als sib as seif and riddill, In un4 silvd quce creveruut.
Seite 36 - Fraser could never stand before him ; For he, by page and leaf, can quote More books than Solomon ere wrote. A lover of the mathematics He is, but hates the hydrostatics, Because he thinks it a cold study To deal in water, clear or muddy. Doctissimus est medicinae, Almost as Boerhaave or Bellini.
Seite vi - Both backwards and forwards is always the same ; A fruit that is rare, whose botanical name Read backwards and forwards is always the same...
Seite iv - Rutler dreamt a dream, Which rack'd his heart with pain : He dreamt there was a raging bear Rush'd from the rugged rocks ; And strutting round with horrid stare, Breath'd terror to the Brocks.* But Robert Rutter drew his sword, And rushing forward right, The horrid creature's thrapple gor'd, And barr'd...
Seite 38 - To tell how gracefully he dances, And artfully contrives romances; How well he arches, and shoots flying, (Let no man think that we mean lying), How well he fences, rides and sings, And does...

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