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The following macaronic epigram, however, shows that they were but too much addicted to the Amour Socratique: "Let a friar of some order tecum pernoctare Either thy wife or thy daughter hic vult violare, Or thy son he will prefer, sicut fortem fortis, God give such a friar pain in Inferni portis."
Other people have invented book-plates, containing fell curses in doggrel Latin or the vernacular on the careless or dishonest borrower: "Aspice Pierrot pendut Parceque librum non a rendu" is the kind of macaronic French and Latin which schoolboys are accustomed to write under a sketch of the borrower expiating his offences on the gallows.
'Yes, Ruth, continued her husband, having recourse to the macaronic jargon in which it was alone possible for them to understand each other; 'wait till we clean up and pull for the Outside. We'll take the White Man's canoe and go to the Salt Water. Yes, bad water, rough water great mountains dance up and down all the time.
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