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EPIGRAM CCLXXVI.
[In Araby, learned linguists say]
ALIUSQUE ET IDEM.
In Araby, learned linguists say,
So copious is the vulgar phrase,
That speech at pleasure can display
The lion's name five hundred ways.
So copious is the vulgar phrase,
That speech at pleasure can display
The lion's name five hundred ways.
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But while thus, column after column,
Expression's vast varieties fall,
These, though enough to fill a volume,
Mean but one lion after all.
Expression's vast varieties fall,
These, though enough to fill a volume,
Mean but one lion after all.
Or else perhaps, with evident cause
A doubt might rise, which most would scare ye?
The lion's titles?—or his claws?
The desart?—or the Dictionary?
A doubt might rise, which most would scare ye?
The lion's titles?—or his claws?
The desart?—or the Dictionary?
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