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ALEXANDRA INTRODUCTORY PINDARIC ODE BY O.C. Alexandra ! Alexandra ! Lege ! non ero Cassandra. Ego scribam quæ me decet : Xenophon non nimis fecit. Alexandra ! Alexandra ! Non ero mala Cassandra. De te poetam, fac, ver, me ! Regne ! Vive ! Ama ! Germe ! Alexandra ! me inerme ! Regne ! Ama ! Germe ! 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 …
1909 · PDF PAGE 2
…plied sternly, whence came it ? My practised eye had already detected the inde- scribable cachet of a treasure trove bene trovato, sin non veri similitudo ! as the immortal Mantuan bardic anarch hath it ah ! dear, dear old Dante ! Dunnom ! Oyussm ! with a vivid blush through her smuts (Euphemia knows that she cannot hope to deceive me. What is my secret ? A simple one : I always believe the worst : once in a thou- sand times I may be wrong, and it is only the next worst, but no matter.) Without prolonging the agony, I may say that it sh…