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SPRATTUS ET UXOR
Jack Spratt could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean,
And so between them both
They licked the platter clean.
Sprattus horrescens adipem recusat,
Uxor et non vult tolerare macrum:
Conjuges digni! potuêre sic de-
tergere lancem.
Σπράττος ὠμηστὴς στέαρ ἐξέλειπεν‧
Ἡ γυνὴ σφοδρῶς ἀπέφευγεν ἰσχνόν‧
Εὔγαμοι, δείπνῳ ταχέως ἕκαστος
Πάντ’ ἀπολείχει.
PAR AVIUM
Two little birds were sitting on a stone,
One flew away and then there was one,
T’ other flew away and then there was none,
So the poor stone was left all alone.
One of the little birds back again flew,
In came t’ other and then there were two;
Says one bird to t’ other, “How do you do?”
“Very well, I thank you; pray how do you?”
Fama est par avium venisse insistere saxo,
Quarum primâ abeunte superstitit inde secunda:
Illa autem fugiens jam vix vestigia liquit,
Et saxum mœrens in campo luget inani.
Ecce autem rediens avium comparuit una,
Altera non segnis sociam complectitur almam:
Arreptâque manu, “Quid agis dulcissima rerum?”
“Suaviter ut nunc est, et jam cupio omnia quæ vis.”
REX ARTHURUS
When King Arthur ruled the land,
He ruled it like a king:
He bought four pecks of barley-meal
To make a brave pudding.
A pudding brave the king did make
And stuffed it well with plums;
Great lumps of suet he put into it,
As big as both his thumbs.
The king and queen partook thereof,
And all the court beside;
And what they did not eat that night,
The queen next morning fried.
Angliæ rex imperio potitus,
Hordei nactus modium farinæ,
Ordinat cœnâ properè institutâ
Sternere mensam.
Mira farrago exoritur culinâ,
Turgidis uvis maculata passis
Intus et frustis adipis referta
Pollicis instar.
Rex et affines epulantur omnes
Principes magni dominæque lectæ:
Alma regina exoriente luce
Fragmina frixit.