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"Pullum disa lope, sabe?" Wilbur tugged at the rope the cook indicated. "That's well, y'r peak halyard purchase," chanted Captain Kitchell. Wilbur made the rope fast. The mainsail was set, and hung slatting and flapping in the wind. Next the for'sail was set in much the same manner, and Wilbur was ordered to "lay out on the ji'boom and cast the gaskets off the jib."
"Et primo, quidem, quoniam per epigenesin sive partium superexorientium additamentum pullum fabricari certum est: quaenam pars ante alias omnes exstruatur, et quid de illa ejusque generandi modo observandum veniat, dispiciemus.
It breathes the insolence of the conqueror mingled with a barbarous humour embodied in a play on words for "Asturis" has a double reference to the kite and to the place "Astura," at which the fugitive Princes were captured: "Asturis ungue Leo Pullum rapiens Aquilinum Hic deplumavit, acephalumque dedit."
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