The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...novel and refined; Such as Pythagoras could never reach, Nor Socrates nor scienced Plato teach. HORACE. I ask your pardon and confess my crime, To interrupt you at so cross a time. But yet, if aught escaped through strange neglect, You shall with ease the wisdom recollect; Whether you boast from nature or from art, This wondrous gift of holding things by heart. CATIUS. I meant to store them total in my head, The matter nice, and wrought of subtle thread. HORACE. But prithee, Catius, what's your sage's name: Is he a Roman or of foreign fame? CATIUS. His precepts I shall willingly reveal, And sing his doctrines, but his name conceal. Long be your eggs, far sweeter than the round, Cock eggs they are, more nourishing and sound. In thirsty fields a richer colewort grows Than where the watery garden overflows. If by an evening guest perchance surprised, Lest the tough hen (I prithee be advised) Should quarrel with his teeth, let her be drown'd In lees of wine, and she'll be tender found. Best flavour'd mushrooms pasture land supplies, In other kinds a dangerous poison lies. 1 ' Pasture.' Francis, out of respect to Sanadon, who is an ignis fatuus that is continually leading him astray, renders this, ' meadow, ' and inserts the following note from him: ' Nothing is more false. The best mushrooms, generally speaking, are those gathered in woods, heaths, and downs.' But the word pratentts in the original may be applied to any kind of pasture as well as to meadows; and as for woods, I never knew them produce any other fungus than the toadstool. Miller says the best mushrooms are found in rich pastures. This kind of mushroom is in particular requisition among the modern Italians, who call it pratolino. VOL. III. N He shall with vigour bear the...