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"Percutite porcos boreales." "Vim inferre australibus asinis." "Sternite omnes Gallos." So they shouted imprecations in Latin and English, and eke in French, for there were many Gauls about. What chance of getting through the fighting, drunken, riotous mobs? Quarterstaves were rising and falling upon heads and shoulders.
I was a miserable failure as Peter the Hermit and Urban II.; my Godefroy de Bouillon was pronounced to be utterly devoid of military ardour. A warlike song in Sapphic and Adonic stanzas created a more favourable impression. My refrain Sternite Turcas, a short and sharp solution of the Eastern Question, was selected for recital in public. I was too staid for these childish proceedings.
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