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Do you remember our drinking together at an alehouse near Pembroke gate? At that time, you told me of the Eton boy, who, when verses on our SAVIOUR'S turning water into wine were prescribed as an exercise, brought up a single line, which was highly admired, "Vidit et erubuit lympha pudica DEUM,"
And last: I adjure Lympha, goddess of the fountains, and Bonus Eventus, god of good fortune, since without water all vegetation is starved and stunted and without due order and good luck all tillage is in vain. And so having paid my duty to the gods, I proceed to rehearse some conversations concerning agriculture in which I have recently taken part.
The women used to lie on the side of the bed next the wall: and for that reason they called Caesar, "Spondam regis Nicomedis," They took breath in their drinking, and watered their wine "Quis puer ocius Restinguet ardentis Falerni Pocula praetereunte lympha?"
Do you remember our drinking together at an alehouse near Pembroke gate . At that time, you told me of the Eton boy, who, when verses on our Saviour's turning water into wine were prescribed as an exercise, brought up a single line, which was highly admired, "Vidit et erubuit lympha pudica Deum ,"
Silvanus is the god of the wood, Lympha of the stream, each wood and each stream having its own Silvanus or Lympha. Seia has to do with the corn before it sprouts, Segetia with corn when shot up, Tutilina with corn stored in the granary, Nodotus has for his care the knots in the straw. There is a god Door, a goddess Hinge, a god Threshold. Each act in opening infancy has its god or goddess.
For example, the same thing is treated more than once; Jubar is twice illustrated by the same quotation, Canis is twice derived from canere; merces is differently explained in two places; Lympha is derived both from lapsus aquae, and from Nympha; valicinari from vesanus and versibus viendis.
There is, to be sure, a charming couplet in some old humanist about LYMPHA NEPENTHI; but modern scholars are disposed to think either that the text is corrupt and that the writer was picturing an imaginary NYMPHA some laughing sea-lady or else that he merely indulged in one of those poetic flights which are a feature of the literature of his period.
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