Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890Various
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890
Various
English wit and humor -- Periodicals
VULTNE Gubernator rursus spoliare Hiemales
Holidies? Durum debet habere jecur!
Nunc iterum versus--pejor Fortuna--Latinos
(Deque meo capite) concoquere ille jubet.
Fecit idem quondam; nunc et--cogitatio laeta!--
Stratagema veteri vendere eum potero.
Materiae sors ulla, puto, descendit eocum;
Namque Latina illi "mortua lingua" manet.
De quo nunc scribam?--Vidi spectacula Barni,
Et res, considero, non ita prava fuit.
Sed quia Neronem atque Romam introducere oportet?
Est socio prorsus sat dare caerulea!
Tunc vidi Dominum Silvae Coventis ad Hortum,
Et Circum Hengleri, Pantomimosque simul.
Ad scholam redco--lamentor dicere--mox nunc;
Notio nuda manet bestialissima mi!
O utinam tactum possem capere Influenzae!
Cuncta habeo morbi symptoma, dico patri.
"Undique mortalitas "--addo--"excessiva videtur.
In valli est Tamesis particulare malus!"
"Russigenus morbus! Frigus commune cerebri;"
Ille ait arridens. "Hoc Russ in urbe vocas?"
"Sed pueros per me fortasse infectio tanget;
Oh, nonne in cera Busbius (arguo) erit!"
Jingo! Gubernator respondit--"Shammere cessa!
Aut aliquid de quo vere dolere dabo!"
Hei mihi! Deposuisse pedem nunc ille videtur.
Sunt lineae durae!--Terminat Holidies.
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