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Urbs Latii non est hâc delitiosior urbe, Frugibus arboribus vino redundat; et unde Non tibi poma nuces, non pulchra palatia desunt, Non species muliebris abest probitasque virorum.”

Terra ista est populosa valde, et crescunt in ea species, et abundantia gingiberis, canella, gariofoli, nuces muscata, et mastix cum aromatibus multis. Sed et quod ibi nascatur vinum, non habent: aurum et argentum est ibi in copia immensa, quod patet in regis Iauae palatio, cuius palatij nobilitas non est facile scribenda.

. . . cana legam tenera lanugine mala Castaneasque nuces . . . then, I think, we shall be disposed to say that in Shakspeare's I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine it is mainly a Greek note which is struck. Then, again in his:

"He is Gilbert de Suilly, Gilbertus de Soliaco, the chancellor of the College of Autun." "Hold on, here's my shoe; you are better placed than I, fling it in his face." "Saturnalitias mittimus ecce nuces." "Down with the six theologians, with their white surplices!" "Are those the theologians? I thought they were the white geese given by Sainte-Genevieve to the city, for the fief of Roogny."

You’ve been a little headstrong, I can’t deny, and had your fling in your own way; but ‘nuces pueris,’ as you will soon be saying yourself on a certain occasion. Your next business is to consider what kind of a marriage you propose. I suppose the Roman, but there is great room for choice even there.” It is a proverb how different things are in theory and when reduced to practice.

" ... cana legam tenera lanugine mala Castaneasque nuces ..." then, I think, we shall be disposed to say that in Shakespeare's "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine " it is mainly a Greek note which is struck. Then, again in his