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The rusticalls held their breath. Then did I look as glum as might be, and muttered slowly thus 'Videamus quam diu tu fictus morio vosque veri stulti audebitis in hac aula morari, strepitantes ita et olentes: ut dulcissimae nequeam miser scribere. They shook like aspens, and stole away on tiptoe one by one at first, then in a rush and jostling, and left me alone; and most scared of all was the fool: never earned jester fairer his ass's ears.
A body of six thousand Mahrattas, under a chief named Morari Row, had been hired to assist Mohammed Ali; but as the French power seemed irresistible, this force bad hitherto remained inactive on the frontiers of the Carnatic. The fame of the defense of Arcot roused them from their torpor. Rajah Sahib learned that the Mahrattas were in motion. It was necessary for him to be expeditious.
This is what is to be examined, and by that you are to judge of the vast differences betwixt man and man. Is he: "Sapiens, sibique imperiosus, Quern neque pauperies, neque mors, neque vincula terrent; Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores Fortis; et in seipso totus teres atque rotundus, Externi ne quid valeat per laeve morari; In quem manca ruit semper fortuna?"
The introduction to each Vision is evidently written with elaborate care, and exquisitely polished "ne quid possit per leve morari," and scene follows scene, painted in words which present them most vividly before one's eyes, whilst the force and liveliness of his diction sustain unflagging interest throughout.
Some modern sophists assure us that this safe-conduct or free pass, as they prefer to call it engaged the imperial word for Huss' safety in going to the council, but for nothing more a most perfidious document, if this is all which it undertook; for the words I quote the more important of them in the original Latin are as follows: "ut ei transire, stare, morari, redire permittatis."
He traduced his memory both by word and deed in the grossest manner; one while charging him with folly, another while with cruelty. For he used to say by way of jest, that he had ceased morari amongst men, pronouncing the first syllable long; and treated as null many of his decrees and ordinances, as made by a doting old blockhead.
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