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280 veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ. Ho, brave colonels, captains, lieutenants, and cornets, adeo hie splendentes congregantur ut ipsis pavonibus pudorem incutiunt, of which I am an eye witness, dejectis capitibus caudas demittunt. Our bakers are all so busy upon this occasion, that they double the heat of the weather, atque urunt officinas. But when the army fires on Friday, ''proh Jupiter! infernum redolebunt et spirabunt''. The noise of guns, the neighing of the horses, and the women's tongues, cœlum atque terras miscebunt.

Grouse pouts are come in, I've some in my bin, To butter your chin; When done with our din—— ——ner, through thick and thin We'll walk out and in, And care not a pin Who thinks it a sin. We make some folks grin, By lashing their kin, &c.

I could not mention troop-horses, quin Pegasus noster lusit exultim ut vides; sed jam stabulo inclusus de versibus nihil amplius. You may be surprised at this motley epistle; but you must know that I fell upon my head the other day, and the fall shook away half my English and Latin, cum omnia lingua Gallica, Hispaitica, nec non Italica. I would rather indeed my wife had lost her one tongue, totaliter, quoniam equidem nullus dubito nisi radicitus evelleretur tonitrui suprraret.

I wish your reverence were here to hear the trumpets; Mistake me not, for I mean not the strumpets. Rh