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When at last he arrived in the neighborhood of the churchyard, Simplex blew his trumpet with all his might, and at the shrill sound two stout lads leaped up out of the cemetery ditch, leading after them a horse saddled and bridled. "Valentine!" cried Simplex, "ecce tuum Bucephalum!" Then the man forming the hinder part of the carnival steed sprang quickly forth from beneath the horsecloth.
The battlefield is quite another thing. There you fight man to man; there you do not hear the cries of the dying. The death I deal to one man, another man may at any moment deal to me. But I won't see men who are bound hand and foot tortured to death; I won't hear them shriek with anguish beneath the hand of the headsman." "You'll go, notwithstanding," returned Simplex.
EAQUE: this is a common way of introducing with emphasis a fresh epithet or predicate. Cf. n. on 65 illius quidem; also neque ea in 22. SIMPLEX: life is compared to a race, in which each man has to run once and only once around the course. TEMPESTIVITAS: 'seasonableness'; cf. 5 maturitate tempestiva, with n.
Simplex undertook to find out all about the robbers from the frequenters of the fairs, who were generally best informed on the subject. His friend he left at an inn in the meantime. When he returned, his face was beaming with joy. "Didn't I say that we were Fortune's own children? Didn't you come into the world in a caul, Valentine? The town is full of joy.
And by this time all the doors and windows were opened, and thronged with spectators. Among the many trumpeters who strode along before the sheriff's horse was worthy Simplex, who looked up from time to time at his old friend, as if he thought that a part of all this pomp and splendor belonged to him.
"Stop!" cried the terrified guide; "are you mad?" But the deed was already done. Simplex took the trumpet from his shoulder and blew a mighty alarum that re-echoed far and wide through forest and dale, and then he cried aloud: "Run! the soldiers are coming!" The robbers no sooner heard it than they sprang to their feet in terror.
You have neither father nor mother, don't even know where you were born, are as poor as a church mouse, carry your house on your shoulders, your bread in your breast, and begging is your trade. 'Tis the usual answer to the first question, but we'll now see what you've got to say to the second question." He gave a nod, and four soldiers instantly threw Simplex to the ground.
What do you say?" But this proposition was anything but satisfactory to Simplex; not at any price would he hear of having his leg broken. "Come, come, lad!" cried Hafran, soothingly. "Don't be scared at such a trifle! A small fracture is an everyday occurrence.
There was one student who particularly distinguished himself by his facetiousness, and whom everyone called Simplex. He, too, introduces himself under that very name in his contemporary memoirs, from which we have borrowed many of the data of this our veracious history. He was an itinerant student, drummer, and trumpeter, and a wag and good fellow to boot.
The Albanian horseman was covered from head to foot with a coat of scale armor; his horse's head and neck were protected in the same way, and it also bore a huge spike on its forehead, so that the pair looked for all the world like a crocodile mounted on a unicorn, and worthy Simplex was so astonished at this strange sight that he forgot he had a sword in his hand.
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