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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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PAIN AND PUNISHMENT.

Scutĭca 's a scourge, verber is a lash:
Dread the rising surge, which doth fiercely dash.
Virga is a rod, ictus is a stroke;
Vulnus is a wound, which is not a joke.
Should the folks inquire, Herbert soon could tell 'em
That the horrid whip once was called flagellum.
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