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Here the king lost recollection of Sir Mungo's irreverence in chuckling over his own wit, and only farther alluded to it by saying "We must give the old maunderer bos in linguam something to stop his mouth, or he will rail at us from Dan to Beersheba.
If any minister came to examine us, I was brought forth against him, nor would I argue with him unless in the Latin tongue, which I found few of them could well speak without breaking Priscian's head; which, if once they did, I would complain to my master, Non bene intelligit linguam Latinam, nec prorsus loquitur.
Visne mi dare traductionem in istam linguam Toscanam non nullorum verborum? To this he replied, 'Libenter, and the people revered us both. Thus he told me the name for a knife was cultello; for a room, camera par domire; for 'what is it called? 'come si chiama?; for 'what is the road to? 'quella e la via a...? and other phrases wherein, no doubt, I am wrong; but I only learnt by ear.
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