Confedere duces : et, vulgi sante corona, etc.

Attempted in broad BUCHANS.

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And a SHOP-BILL,

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Printed in the Year M. DCC. L V.

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HE wight an' doughty Captains a'

Upo their doups sat down;
A rangel o'the common fouk

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, , Sorgit ad hos clypei dominus feptemplicis Ajax. Utquc erat impatiens irae, sigeia toryo

The Trojan shore, an'a' the barks

That tedder'd fast did ly

Alang the coast; an' raxing out

His gardies, loud did cry:

O Jove! The cause we here do plead,

An'onco great's the staik;

Bat fall that neeth ULYSSES now

Be said to be my maik?

Ye ken right well, fan HECTOR tryd
Thir barks to burn an' fcowder, ir

ri He took to speed o; fit, because

SAA He cou'd na' bide the ewder.

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Littora respexit, claffemque in littore, vultu:
Intendensque manus, Agimus (pro Juppiter !) inquit,
Ante rates caussam; et mecum confertur Ulyffes !
At non Hectareis dubitavit cedere flammis: ano

Bat I, like birky, stood the brunt,

An'locken’d out that gleed,
Wi'muckle virr, an' fyne I gard

The limmers tak the speed.

'Tis better than, the cause we try

Wi'the wind o’our wame,

Than for to come in hanny grips

At fik a driry time.

At threeps I am na’ fae perquire,

Nor auld-farren as he,

Bat at banes-brakin, it's well kent,

He has na'maughts like me.

Quas ego fustinui; quas hac a classe fugavi,
Tutius est fictis igitur contendere verbis,
Quam pugnare manu. sed nec mihi dicere promtum;

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