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And guess what he replied? That he thought of a recipe of Stendhal's to recite from memory four Latin verses, before firing. 'And might one know what you chose? I asked of him. Thereupon he repeated: 'Tityre, tu patulae recubens!"
And guess what he replied? That he thought of a recipe of Stendhal's to recite from memory four Latin verses, before firing. 'And might one know what you chose? I asked of him. Thereupon he repeated: 'Tityre, tu patulae recubens.!"
The book was a Delphin edition of 1798, which had followed him in all his wanderings; there was a great scratch on the sheep-skin cover that a thorn had made in a forest of Alabama. And then, in the twilight, as he shut the volume at last, oblivious of my presence, he began to murmur and to chant the adorable verses by memory. Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi,
What a joyous creak in the down-flying steps! and, oh! that comfortable alertness with which we deposit ourselves in the padded corner, and fold our coatflaps over our knees, glance at the frosty steam of the window; and then, quite a la Tityre, repose our recumbent bodies at our ease! Such moments as these are snatches of indefinable bliss.
"Over the Tityre Tus," they answered. "Oh, most barbarous and cuckoldy citizen, do you not recognise that you have fallen into the hands of that most noble order?" "This is not your real monarch," said I, "for he is down beneath us chained in the pit, where some day he will gather his dutiful subjects around him."
Ego sum tu es thou art sumus, we are where am I? Procumbit humi bos for Bos read Dobbs amo, amas I loved a lass. Tityre, tu patulae sub teg-mine nay I quote wrong then must I be I do believe that I'm drunk." "And I'm cock sure of it," cried Tom, laughing, as the Dominie fell back in a state of insensibility.
Captain Faucon came quietly up to me, as I was at work, with my knife, cutting the meat from a dirty hide, asked me how I liked California, and repeated "Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi." Very apropos, thought I, and, at the same time, serves to show that you understand Latin.
It is said to have been introduced by the Romans, and is familiar as the tree mentioned by Virgil in the opening line of his first Pastoral: "Tityre tu patulæ recubans sub tegmine fagi;" the metre, and the words of which, apart from their signification, suggest so accurately the pattering of the leaves of the tree in a gentle breeze.
Will Tityre tu patulae, as they ca' it, tell him where Rashleigh Osbaldistone is? or Macbeth, and all his kernes and galla-glasses, and your awn to boot, Rob, procure him five thousand pounds to answer the bills which fall due ten days hence, were they a' rouped at the Cross, basket-hilts, Andra-Ferraras, leather targets, brogues, brochan, and sporrans?"
The King, the Duke, Sedley and Buckingham, Mesdames Castlemaine, Stuart and Gwynne, Dryden and Waller and Lely, the King's house, the Queen's chapel, the Queen's duennas, the Tityre Tus, Paul's Walk, the Russian Ambassador, astrologers, orange girls, balls, masques, pageants, duels, the court of Louis le Grand, the King's hunting parties, Madame d'Orleans, Olympe di Mancini.
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