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Pretty Lessons in Verse

for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By Sara Coleridge. The Fourth Edition, with Many Cuts

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[Virga's a rod, flagellum a whip]

Virga 's a rod, flagellum a whip,
And poculum means a cup;
And vinum the wine, which thence you may sip:
Don't drink it too greedily up.