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"'Ragibus et clotibus solemus stopere windous, Non numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati, Stercora flat stiro raro terra-tanfcaro bungo." "Aisy, Mister Kavanagh," replied the other; "let the Cantabrigian resolve the one I propounded him first."
The most striking feature of the dictionary is its etymology. Almost every word is supplied with a derivation, often very far-fetched. Thus glisco is derived from 'glykis, quod est dulcis; que enim dulcia sunt desiderare solemus': gliscere therefore is equivalent to desiderare, crescere, pinguescere and several other words. After this we are not surprised at the following account of a dormouse.
Interdum complicatis genubus supplices; interdum obverso incedentes tergo et modo retrogrado, in oppositum directo illi reverentiae quam nos praestare solemus. Quo facto, sacrificia daemoni faciunt multis modis. Saepe liberos suos ipsi offerunt.
He then pronounces this marriage sarvice, when the husband smacks her first, and then the priest: 'Amo amas, avourneen in nomine gomine, betwuxt and between for hoc erat in votis, squeeze 'em please 'em omnia vincit amor, wid two horns to caput nap it poluphlasboio, the lasses 'Quid, says Cleopatra; 'Shid, says Antony ragibus et clatibus solemus stapere windous nine months big-bottle, and a honeymoon Alneas poque Dido' poque Roymachree hum not fiem viat lag rag, merry kerry, Parawig and breeches hoc manifestibus omnium Kiss your wife under the nose, then seek repose. 'Tis' done, says the priest.
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