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magnatum. Approach then, you'll ha' but small joy here."
"Mer. Accedam, atque hanc appellabo atque supparasitabo patri." Ibid. sc. 3.
"Mer. I'll to her, and tickle her up as my father has done."
"Sofia. Irritabis crabrones." Ibid, act 2. sc. 2.
"Sofia. You'd as good p—ss in a bee-hive."
Seneca, though not a chaste writer, is remarkable for a courtly dignity of expression, which, though often united with ease, never descends to the mean or vulgar. L'Estrange has presented him through a medium of such coarseness, that he is hardly to be known.
Probatos itaque semper lege, et siquandoad
