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And since parting there must be, he would enjoy to the full what was left of this happy student life, with its changing hours of study and feasting, of poetry, and fighting, and song that almost mingled with the clash of steel. 'Are you ready? asked the students in chorus. Greif set his yellow cap upon his close-cut golden hair. 'Yes come on! Vivat, floreat, crescat Suabia!
Said Felix Adler to his hemlock-spruce, "Vivat, crescat, floreat"; and a sentiment much like it was implied in Sol Smith Russell's words to the grove's master as they finished putting in his linden together for he was just then proposing to play Rip Van Winkle, which Joseph Jefferson had finally decided to produce no more: "Here's to your healt', undt der healt' of all your family; may you lif long undt brosper."
His nails are not sharp enough as yet, nor have his claws attained to their full growth, he is little. Crescat; Nos qui vivimus, multiplicemur. It is written so, and it is holy stuff, I warrant you; the truth whereof is like to last as long as a sack of corn may be had for a penny, and a puncheon of pure wine for threepence.
I scorn to desert an absent friend, Darsie, so I said for you a little more than my conscience warranted: but your defection from your legal studies had driven you far to leeward in my father's good opinion. 'Unstable as water, he shall not excel, said my father; 'or, as the Septuagint hath it, EFUSA EST SICUT AQUA NON CRESCAT. He goeth to dancing-houses, and readeth novels SAT EST.
Why do you not now at this instant settle yourself in the state you seem to aim at, and spare all the labour and hazard you interpose?" "Nimirum, quia non cognovit, qux esset habendi Finis, et omnino quoad crescat vera voluptas." I will conclude with an old versicle, that I think very apt to the purpose: "Mores cuique sui fingunt fortunam."
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