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…erme ! Vive ! Ex ad te it cupido cive. Gratiam Deo demus mutuam In cubili si te futuam. Non ero mala Cassandra, Alexandra ! Alexandra !1 Mrs Coxs Latinity is sometimes not quite up to Fleet Street mark : and these lines are decidedly not regular hexameters : Professor Jibb, to whom I submitted the point, was quite at one with me upon it, after a days consideration. But the acros- tic is beautifully carried out : and the sentiment is throughout loyal, enthusiastic, generous, delicate, forceful, noble, svelte, admirable, delicate, rever- ently …
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
…rtunes.) O spring ! make me a poet (poetess) concerning thee ! Reign ! Live ! Love ! Be fruitful ! Alexandra ! I being unarmed. (Because Mrs Cox is a woman. Cf. Voltaire : O che sciagura essere sin cogl . . .) Reign ! Love ! Be fruitful ! Live ! Out of the citizen desire goes to thee. We will give grateful mutual thanks to God if I shall . . . (I do not know what futuam can mean. (Look up your Latin Dic., though I admit it is an unusual word in this con- nection, and may seem unjustifiable to those who have not seen my cl... O.C. (MS. illegi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 2
EDITORIAL NOTE Pleesm ! said my (Diapers, not Mrs Coxs] sloppy slavey one brilliant November morning of last year, as the orangegold clouds of deliciously perfumed mist stole, in spite of the Eighth com- mandment, down my chimney in Fleet Street ; [of course Diaper does not live in a chimney : she has a deevie flat there and the flat has a chimney, two chimneys, in fact, O.C.) myav thister litafir ? Woman ! I replied sternly, whence came it ? My practised eye had already detected the inde- scribable cachet of a treasure trove bene trovato, …
1909 · PDF PAGE 3
…is saved, honour, which if you remember was all Sir George got out of King Francis great lion at the battle of Pavium you have read Mrs Brownings scrumptious poemlet, of course. Diaper will at least avoid the Infernum pro- scribed for John Stuart Mill, Newtons dog, and Mr Warburtons housemaid. Nunquam plaudite !