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The consequence was the battle of Varna, of the 10th of November, in which Hunyadi was routed, and Ulaszlo slain. Did you ever hear his epitaph? it is both solemn and edifying: Romulidae Cannas ego Varnam clade notavi; Discite mortales non temerare fidem: Me nisi Pontifices jussissent rumpere foedus Non ferret Scythicum Pannonis ora jugum."
Ecce inter pocula quaerunt Romulidae saturi, quid dia poemata narrent. Persius, Sat. i. 30. Nay, more! Our nobles, gorged, and swilled with wine, Call o'er the banquet for a lay divine! Gifford. It was cultivated as a kind of fashionable exercise, in short and desultory attempts, in which the chief ambition was to produce verses extempore.
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