Ferina. Stabam ego sic curas meditans, et totus in illis, Heus bone, numqvid habes? euge, haec lautissuma coena est: Anne tuum hoc an nunc domino debetur opimo? Principibus placuisse viris mihi contigit; est qvi Ad Harpagum. Croesi divitias qvi iungis moribus Iri, Dives es heredi, pauper es ipse tibi. C. W. K. 102 SABRINAE COROLLA. The Beggar Maid. Her arms across her breast she laid; She was more fair than words can say: In robe and crown the king stept down "She is more beautiful than day." One her dark hair and lovesome mien : So sweet a face, such angel grace, In all that land had never been. Cophetua swore a royal oath : This beggar maid shall be my queen. TENNYSON. Grabschrift des Neodars. Neodar, seiner Freunde Plage, Du fragst bei diesem Leichenstein: Ward er durch Fragen klug?— Uch! nein. HAGEDORN. Mendica. Ibat ut ambabus positis ad pectora palmis, H. A. J. M. Epitaphium Percunctatoris. Interrogator hic, sodalium pestis, Interrogare desinit Polysperchon. Interroganti vita longa manarat : Interrogantem vox reliqvit extrema. Interrogaris forte, doctus et prudens Interrogando sitne factus: Haudqvaqvam. K. Hero. Leon. I know not; if they speak but truth of her, These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour, The proudest of them shall well hear of it. Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, Friar. And let my counsel sway you Pause a while, in this case. Your daughter here the princes left for dead : And publish it that she is dead indeed; SHAKSPEARE. A False Face True. That there is falsehood in his looks BURNS. 1. Οὐ σάφ' οἶδ', ἀλλ ̓ εἰ κατ' αὐτῆς τῶνδ ̓ ἀληθεύουσί τι αἵδε νιν διασπάσονται χεῖρες. εἰ δ ̓ ἔχουσιν αὖ ἐκδίκως σφ ̓ ἀτιμάσαντες, ἆρά τις τάχ ̓ εἴσεται ὑψίφρων γεγώς περ ὡς τοῦδ ̓ οὔτε τἀνδρὸς ἔσβεσεν αἷμά πω χρόνος μακραίων, οὔτε νοῦν εὐμήχανον γῆρας ἐξέτριψεν, οὔτε κτημάτων διαφθορὰν ἡ τύχη τοιάνδ ̓ ἔπραξεν, οὔτε δυσκλεὴς βίος τῶν φίλων μ ̓ ἀπεστέρησεν, ὥστε μή τιν' ἐκμαθεῖν ἔμπεδον ῥώμην ἐνοῦσαν ὧδέ μοι τεθηγμένῳ καὶ φρενῶν εὔβουλον ἀκμὴν ἄφθονόν τ ̓ ἐν οἰκίᾳ οὐσίαν λεκτούς τ ̓ ὀπαδοὺς κἀπικουρίαν φίλων, οἷσι ῥᾳδίως δοκῶ μοι τούσδε τίσεσθαι δίκην. Ι. ὦ φίλ', ἀλλ ̓ ἐπίσχες αὐτοῦ, τοῖς δ ̓ ἐμοῖς βουλεύμασι πρὸς τὰ νῦν παρόνθ ̓ ὕπεικε· τὴν κόρην τότ ̓ ἐνθάδε ὡς ἐπ ̓ ἐκπνοαῖς κατέλιπον ἄνδρες· ἔνδον οὖν λάθρα δεῖ τέως σέ νιν φυλάξαι, κἀπικηρύξαι λόγους ὡς ὑπὲρ σαφῶς θανούσης, καὶ χλιδῆς μιμήματα πενθίμου τῶν σῶν κρεμαστὴν ξυγγενῶν ἐκ μνήματος δέλτον ἀρχαίου καθάψαι σήματ ̓ ἐγγεγραμμένην, καὶ ταφῆς ἅπαντα σεμνῶς ἐκτελεῖν κτερίσματα. E. H. G. Falsitas Vera.x. Falsum est qvod crepat oppidum, Perille, Falsum qvi docet esse te, Perille, P Κ. |