early rescued from the cares which increase with growing years; no delights are worth thy stay, smiling as they seem and gay; short and sickly are they all, hardly tasted ere they pall. PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION INTO GREEK COMIC VERSE 1428 1429 1430 Lo LOVE OVE, the disturber of the peace of heaven, WH CHRISTOPHER SLY R. CUMBERLAND HAT, would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher Sly, old Sly's son of Burton-Heath; by birth a pedlar, by education a card-maker, by transmutation a bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker? Ask Marion Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she know me not: if she say I am not fourteen pence in her score for sheer ale, score me up for the lyingest knave in Christendom. What! I am not bestraught. W. SHAKESPEARE DEATH NEVER WELCOME AH, and call amain upon him to release you, Not you. Passages for Translation into Greek Comic Verse 575 1431 1432 to tug you to his wherry, and dislodge you R. CUMBERLAND I'M Pepperhe midst of all, and banged of all hands: they made an anvil of my head; it rings yet; never so threshed. Do you call this fame? I have I have got immortal fame; but I'll no more on't: I crawled away, and lived again still. I am hurt Bap. H BAPTISTA-HORTENSIO OW now, my friend! why dost thou look so pale ? Hor. For fear, I promise you, if I look pale. Bap. What, will my daughter prove a good musician? iron may hold with her, but never lutes. Bap. Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute? Hor. Why, no, for she hath broke the lute to me. I did but tell her she mistook her frets, and bowed her hand to teach her fingering, when with a most impatient, devilish spirit, 'frets, call you these?' quoth she, 'I'll fume with them:' 1433 K. G. K. and with that word she struck me on the head, I KATHARINE-GRUMIO W. SHAKESPEARE PRYTHEE go, and get me some repast; 'Tis passing good: I prythee let me have it. G. K. G. K. G. I fear, 'tis too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe, finely broiled? I cannot tell; I fear 'tis choleric. What say you to a piece of beef, and mustard? Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little. K. Why, then the beef, and let the mustard rest. 1434 NCERTUM est, quid agam: quia praeter spem, atque incredibile hoc mi obtigit: ita sum irritatus, animum ut nequeam ad cogitandum instituere. Quamobrem omnes, cum secundae res sunt maxume, tum maxume meditari secum oportet, quo pacto advorsam aerumnam ferant: pericla, damna, exilia peregre rediens semper cogitet, aut fili peccatum, aut uxoris mortem, aut morbum filiae: communia esse haec; ne quid horum unquam accidat animo novum, quicquid praeter spem eveniat, omne id deputare esse in lucro. T. M. PLAVTVS. 1435 FATHERS INCONSIDERATE TO THEIR SONS Q UAM iniqui sunt patres in omnis adolescentes iudices! qui aequom esse censent, nos iam a pueris illico nasci senes: neque illarum affines esse rerum, quas fert adolescentia: ex sua libidine moderantur, nunc quae est, non quae olim fuit. Mihi si unquam filius erit, nae ille facili me utetur patre: nam et cognoscendi et ignoscendi dabitur peccatis locus; non ut meus, qui mihi per alium ostendit suam sententiam. Perii! is mihi, ubi adbibit plus paulo, sua quae narrat facinora? Nunc ait, periculum ex aliis facito, tibi quod ex usu siet: astutus: nae ille haud scit, quam mihi nunc surdo narret fabulam. P. TERENTIVS AFER 1436 PAULO-SLAVE-MERCHANT HAT can he do? P. W. Why anything that's ill, S. and never blush at it: he's so true a thief, that he'll steal from himself, and think he has got He stole out of his mother's belly, being an infant t; P. MASSINGER 1437 WHAT THE SOLDIER'S LIFE HAT slave would be a soldier, to be censured our worths and merits, balanced in the scale F. S. III |