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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
Coleridge, Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)

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LESSONS IN LATIN.

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[Caudex, and codex, and stirps, all three]

Caudex , and codex, and stirps, all three
Mean the great trunk or stem of a tree,
Which with its head and its limbs you see.
Truncus means nought but the stock or trunk,
Stripp'd of its boughs, beheaded and shrunk,
Shaven and shorn like any old monk.
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