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Or was it that they were books not laid up in the Church chest, but hidden away in obscure corners? They are Latin hexameters into which an internal rhyme has forced its way. The following, for example, are all 'leonine': Qui pingit florem non pingit floris odorem: Si quis det mannos, ne quaere in dentibus annos. Una avis in dextra melior quam quattuor extra.
For a long while they wandered through the forest, the werwolf ever watching over them, and bringing them food. At length the news spread abroad, no one knew how, that William and Melior were running about as bears no more, but in the garments they always wore. So men began to look out for them, and once they were very nearly caught by some charcoal-burners.
Sen. de Benef. 2, 21: Si exemplo magni animi opus est, utemur Graecini Julii, viri egregii, quem C. Caesar occidit ob hoc unum, quod melior vir esset, quam esse quemquam tyranno expediret. Senatorii ordinis. Pred. after fuit understood, with ellipsis of vir. Sapientiae. Philosophy, cf. 1. Caii Caesaris. Known in English histories by the name of Caligula. Marcum Silanum.
And yet more generous was the answer of that great Alexander to Polypercon who was persuading him to take the advantage of the night's obscurity to fall upon Darius. Quint. "Atque idem fugientem baud est dignatus Oroden Sternere, nec jacta caecum dare cuspide vulnus Obvius, adversoque occurrit, seque viro vir Contulit, haud furto melior, sed fortibus armis."
Listen: 'Take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man who, to him, is instead of a God, or melior natura, which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain.
They had nothing to eat, but were too tired to think of that till they had had a good sleep, though when they woke up they began to wonder how they should get any food. 'Oh, it will be all right! said Melior; 'there are blackberries in plenty and acorns and hazel-nuts, and there is a stream just below the cave do you not hear it? It will all be much nicer than anything in the palace.
It was an honour which seemed to wait for you, to lead out a New Colony of Writers from the Mother Nation; and, upon the first spreading of your ensigns, there had been many in a readiness to have followed so fortunate a Leader; if not all, yet the better part of writers. Pars, indocili melior grege, mollis et expes Inominata perprimat cubilia.
'It is true, said she, 'that, unless you manage to escape, you will be forced to wed the prince; but how are you to get away when there are guards before every door of the palace, except by the little gate, and to reach that you will have first to pass by the sentries, who know you? 'O dear Alexandrine, cried Melior, clasping her hands in despair. 'Do try to think of some way to save us!
'I shall care for him willingly, answered Melior, and she took him away, and saw that supper was set before him, and clothes provided for him, and made him ready for his duties as page to the emperor. So the boy and girl grew up together, and everyone loved William, who was gentle and pleasant to all, and was skilled in what a gentleman should know.
"For take an example of a dog," he says, "and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who is to him in place of a god, or melior natura, which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without the confidence of a better nature than its own, could never attain!" Can we not say as much of the horse?
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