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Catullus says, "Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, in vento " What a memory mine is! However, the passage is, that a woman's words to a lover are as a matter of course written only on wind and water. Now don't be troubled about that, Elfride. 'Ah, you don't know! They had been standing on the lawn, and Knight was now seen lingering some way down a winding walk.
Gratian, Dist., 23, c. 29 Friedberg, i, p. 86: Mulier, quamvis docta et sancta, viros in conventu docere non praesumat. Id., Causa, 15, Quaest. 3 Friedberg, i, p. 750.
And in truth, what are these things I scribble, other than grotesques and monstrous bodies, made of various parts, without any certain figure, or any other than accidental order, coherence, or proportion? "Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne."
I dwell a little on the process which is practically followed in separating them from the Cognates, because it explains a memorable legal maxim, "Mulier est finis familiæ" a woman is the terminus of the family. A female name closes the branch or twig of the genealogy in which it occurs. None of the descendants of a female are included in the primitive notion of family relationship.
The air of wealth and repose diffused about them seemed to comfort their neediness. Behind a hedge of laurel a light glimmered in the window of a kitchen and the voice of a servant was heard singing as she sharpened knives. She sang, in short broken bars: Rosie O'Grady. Cranly stopped to listen, saying: MULIER CANTAT.
He remembers the saying of the wise man, "Mulier nequam plaga mortis;" and at last by ordering her off in the name of the Blessed Trinity and the Holy Virgin, "withal gently blowing towards her," she all of a sudden giving three leaps, and howling thrice, flies away in a trice. The Bolungo or Chilumbo oath or ordeal is, of course, a "hellish ceremony."
It is not princely, but it is something for an old soldier of fortune who hath been in the wars for five-and-thirty years, and foresees the time when his limbs will grow stiff in his harness. What sayeth our learned Fleming "an mulier " but what in the name of the devil have we here?
Tamburin unfolds the character of Romanism in his "Moral Theology," p. 186, in a lengthened discussion of the following characteristic inquiry "Quantum pro usu corporis sui juste exigat mulier?" The reply is, "de meretrice et de femina honesta sive conjugata, ant non." Fegeli wrote a book of "Practical Questions;" and on p. 397, is the following "Under what obligation is he who defiles a virgin?"
Say the word, and pledge me the draught." "Well, well, mulier abominabilis! that is, irresistible bonnibell. "It is magic," said Graul, with joy. "Ay, magic." "I will bring thee the wizard. But listen; he never stirs abroad, save with his daughter. I must bring both." "Nay, I want not the girl."
I mention it, not for the pun, which I rejected as not very edifying and perhaps not new, though I did not recollect having seen it. Mulier, Latin for woman; why apply that name to one of the gentle but occasionally obstinate sex? Please observe that I did not like the poor pun very well, and thought it rather rude and inelegant.
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