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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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[Trumpeter's tubĭcen, piper tibīcen]

Trumpeter's tubĭcen, piper tibīcen,
One word is short and the other is long;
Coots, are called fulĭcæ, soot is fulīgo;
Mind that you never accent the words wrong.