Sermons Practical and Occasional Dissertations, Translations, Including New Versions of Virgil's Bucolica, and of Milton's Defensio Secunda, Seaton Poems, &c. &c. By the Rev. Francis Wrangham ... In Three Volumes |
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DIALOGUE I. |
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DIALOGUE I.
Παντσιων σοματων λαλον εικονα, ποιμεσιν ηδυ
Παιγνιον.
Παιγνιον.
Can Echo speak the tongue of every country?
Echo.
Try.
Te virginem si fortè poscam erotica?
Echo.
Ερω ταχα.
Ma si ti sopra il futuro questionerò?
Echo.
Ετεον ερω.
Et puis-je te parler sur des choses passées?
Echo.
Essaye.
Dic mihi quæso virum, vitiis cui tot bona parta: Echo Buonaparte.
Whom once Sir Sidney drove with shame from Acre.
Echo.
A cur!
T' unlock our India, France would make of Turkey—
Echo.
Her key.
Would she then seize Bombay, Madras, Bengal?
Echo.
All.
And did her chief fly Egypt, when most needed?
Echo.
He did.
Whom is he like, who thrives but by escaping?
Echo.
Scapin.
Croyez vous aux histoires, qu'en dit Denon?
Echo.
Non.
What are the arms, with which he now fights Britons?
Echo.
High tones.
Ususne in istius minis fuit aliquis?
Echo.
All a quiz!
Quid nobis iterat tanto hic jactator hiatu?
Echo.
“I hate you.”
Qu'il vienne aussitôt qu'il le veut, ce grand homme!
Echo.
A grand hum!
Nectit at ille moras, pelagusque horrere putatur!
Echo.
Peut-être.
You'd think him then mad, if his forces he march here?
Echo.
As a March hare.
Where does he wish those forces wafted over?
Echo.
To Dover.
Granted—what would they be, ere led to London?
Echo.
All undone.
Can George then thrash by land the Corsican?
Echo.
He can.
But what, if he should chance to meet our navy?
Echo.
Væ!
Τουτω γ' αρ' εχθρα γη τε και θαλασσ' εφυ;
Echo.
A few.
Atqui, ceu Xerxes, nostris fugere actus ab oris—
Echo.
A bore is.
And hence he swears, he'll ne'er again turn flyer.
Echo.
Liar!
How best shall England quell his high pretences?
Echo.
Paret enses.
Et qu'est ce qu'elle montrera, pour calmer cet inquiet?
Echo.
Εγχεα.
Ast unco ductus pœnas dabis, improbe, Gallis.
Echo.
Gallows.
E chi ti vedrà morto, “Ben gli sta” griderà.
Echo.
Agreed—Hurra!
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