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I had no sooner pronounced these words, than the old gentleman, running towards me, shook me by the hand, crying, "Fili mi dilectissime! unde venis? a superis, ni fallor?"
Then resumed his learned queries. "et quid hodie lugdunenses loquuntur vossius vester nihilne novi scripsit? nihil certe, quod doleo, typis recenter editit." "Valet quidem vossius, rex benevole." replied Nigel, "ast senex veneratissimus annum agit, ni fallor, septuagesimum." "Virum, mehercle, vix tam grandaevum crediderim," replied the monarch.
It is written by one "born within a stone's throw of the castle," and, ni fallor, by the author of the picturesque description of Virginia Water, in the Magazine for September, last. As the whole article is much too long for our space, we have abridged it, taking care to retain the most characteristic portion of the writer's very pleasing reminiscences:
Ingratam expertus patriam venerandus uterque est: Felix mutato erit uterque solo. Ep. Grot. 401. p. 868. Gallia magnanimis dedit exorata Batavis Dîs geniti æternum Scaligeri ingenium: Fallor an humanis male dura Batavia Gallis Scaligerum magno reddidit in Grotio. Buchner. Vind. Grot. p. 237.
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